Applications Development Sr Technical Lead - Toronto, Hybrid

Job Purpose:

Citi is the Market Maker and a global leader in all major Fixed Income markets in across the globe. Unified Fix Income Trade Processing(FITP) is Citi’s primary Fixed Income trading platform processing Derivatives, Cash, Exotics and SFT products with 3800+ Trading, Sales, Middle Office users globally. Unified FITP, built on state of the art technology stack processes around 200,000 transactions daily and provides real time position , risk management capabilities. It has connectivity to 100+ electronic trading venues and 20+ regulatory bodies globally.

We are looking for a talented and passionate individual to join our Java Server development team and continue to evolve our next-generation trading application. They would lead the efforts to transition our application to smaller services, full automated CI/CD pipelines enabling faster time to market. The successful candidate will gain valuable exposure to the Fixed Income Trading business and an opportunity to work on a large scale, modern technology platform with a global presence

Responsibilities:

• Lead or guide Java developers in an Application Development team in an effort to accomplish established goals as well as conduct personnel duties for team (e.g. performance evaluations, hiring and disciplinary actions)

• Utilize in-depth knowledge and skills across multiple Applications Development areas to provide technical oversight across systems and applications

• Develop comprehensive knowledge of how areas of business integrate to accomplish business goals

• Provide evaluative judgment based on analysis of factual data in complicated and unique situations

• Develop common, reusable components and services utilizing Citi’s best practices

• Create high performance, low latency applications leveraging existing Citi framework

• Ensure strong reliability, scalability and performance of our components

• Liaise with technical and business teams to collaborate on identifying opportunities and solutions

• Drive architecture and execute on our technical strategy

• Partner with business to continue to evolve our architecture roadmap beyond near term objectives

• Impact the Applications Development area through monitoring delivery of end results, participate in budget management, and handling day-to-day staff management issues, including resource management and allocation of work within the team/project

• Ensure essential procedures are followed and contribute to defining standards negotiating with external parties when necessary

• 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, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.

Qualifications:

• 6-10 years of relevant experience in the Financial Service industry

• Experience as senior developer and tech expert in an Applications Development team.

• Extensive experience in building applications delivered on cloud-based services. 

• Experience in micro services architecture based application development for high volume. 

• Strong understanding of Java / Spring stack for microservice development and a demonstrable understanding of Java internals (JIT, advanced debugging scenarios, JVM memory management etc.) 

• Experience of Kafka 

• Solid understanding of REST API development, ideally on Spring Boot 

• Experience with the design and implementation of cloud-ready applications and deployment via Kubernetes / Openshift 

• Good knowledge of SQL would be a plus 

• Experience working on a Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) environment. Familiarity with TeamCity, Sonarqube and Jenkins 

• Experience working within an Agile environment 

• Demonstrable understanding and experience of engineering best practices: design patterns, coding standard, code review, unit testing via Mockito and Junit

• Ability to develop strong relationships with others, effectively influencing peers and business partners. 

• Self-motivated and organized, with determination to achieve goals; ability to work autonomously when required.

• Experience as senior level in an Applications Development role

• Stakeholder and people management experience

• Demonstrated leadership skills

• Proven project management skills

• Basic knowledge of industry practices and standards

• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience

• Master’s degree preferred

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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