Application Developer

The Applications Development Intermediate Programmer Analyst is an intermediate level position responsible for participation in the establishment and implementation of new or revised application systems and programs in coordination with the Technology team. The overall objective of this role is to contribute to applications systems analysis and programming activities.

This role is for Citimargin Technology team which is a part of Prime Services Technology within the Markets Technology group.

The core application is Margin Calculation Services and Reporting.  This application calculates Margin, develops multiple margin methodologies and calculators, creates Client Reports, Client Extracts and Operational Reports using variety of technologies using Java framework. It uses MSSQL, Oracle to persist the margin data. Application user base is in NAM, APAC and EMEA.

Responsibilities:

• Utilize knowledge of applications development procedures and concepts, and basic knowledge of other technical areas to identify and define necessary system enhancements, including using script tools and analyzing/interpreting code

• Consult with users, clients, and other technology groups on issues, and recommend programming solutions, install, and support customer exposure systems

• Apply fundamental knowledge of programming languages for design specifications.

• Develop and enhance a distributed margin calculation system, data loaders for its upstream systems and data providers for its downstream systems

• Conduct performance analysis of the application code and its optimization to achieve faster calculation times

• Familiarity with and enthusiasm for software engineering best practices such as testing, continuous integration, and continuous delivery

• Utilize Git for source code management and collaborate with team members through regular code reviews, testing, debugging, and collaborative development practices

• Perform Dev Integration testing, UAT rollouts, Production Deployments and Production Support.

• Provide business as usual (BAU) coverage.

• Conduct tasks related to feasibility studies, time and cost estimates, IT planning, risk technology, applications development, model development, and establish and implement new or revised applications systems and programs to meet specific business needs or user areas

• Monitor and control all phases of development process and analysis, design, construction, testing, and implementation as well as provide user and operational support on applications to business users

• Analyze applications to identify vulnerabilities and security issues, as well as conduct testing and debugging

• Serve as advisor or coach to new or lower level analysts

• Identify problems, analyze information, and make evaluative judgements to recommend and implement solutions

• Resolve issues by identifying and selecting solutions through the applications of acquired technical experience and guided by precedents

• Has the ability to operate with a limited level of direct supervision.

• Can exercise independence of judgement and autonomy.

• Acts as SME to senior stakeholders and /or other team members.

• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

Qualifications:

• Intermediate level experience in Applications Development role

• Excellent knowledge of algorithms and data structures, design patterns. Experience in systems analysis and programming of software applications

• Strong Java experience : Java core, collections, concurrency, streams  

• Frameworks and APIs:  Spring (Core, Batch, Integration, MVC, Boot, Data), Hibernate, Jackson, JAX RS, JPA, JAXB

• Building tools: Maven or Gradle

• Experience with distributed caches like Apache Gemfire will be a plus

• Messaging: JMS, Kafka

• Testing: JUnit, Mocking frameworks (Mockito, Power Mock)

• Understanding of micro service architecture. Experience with development distributed systems

• Experience in performance enhancements using parallel processing, multithreading. Understanding locking/synchronization

• Tools: IntelliJ Idea or Eclipse, Linux as advanced user, Git, Jira

• Understanding Docker and Kubernetes

• Experience in RESTful API development and integration, deployment framework and source control experience such as Git.

• Ability to work under pressure and manage deadlines or unexpected changes in expectations or requirements

• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication

• Demonstrated problem-solving and decision-making skills

• Ability to work under pressure and manage deadlines or unexpected changes in expectations or requirements

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

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