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Applications Development Senior Programmer (Java) – Assistant VP at Citi
Join Citi's team to build cutting‑edge clearing platforms and modernize reporting systems.
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Job Overview
The Applications Development Senior 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.
About Team and Platform
Citi Futures and Derivatives Clearing Technology supports a rapidly growing business that uses technological innovation to maintain competitive advantage in a constantly evolving market. Working closely with the business, external vendors and internal technology teams, you would build‑out and maintain our next generation clearing platforms. You would manage complex projects that will involve everything from incorporating a new functionality within the existing ecosystem, to analyzing new requirements, documenting solutions, managing implementation and testing systems, ensuring that they are fit for purpose. You would regularly work with a range of Business Analysts and high‑profile stakeholders.
Data and Reporting Team
The Data and Reporting team develops and supports a platform that provides client reporting and feeds other downstream applications within Citi. It provides reporting such as real‑time trades, positions, initial and variation margin, positions and balances for external clients and internal users such as traders, operations and sales. A major ongoing initiative is to modernise the existing platform in order to provide scale and to enhance product offerings and new business requirements.
Responsibilities
- Design and development of technical solutions for the data and reporting application utilizing best engineering practices
- Contribute toward engineering best practices
- Work closely with business users, stakeholders, BAs, product managers and other development teams to understand problem space, brainstorm ideas, approaches, and solutions.
- Design and develop software applications using microservices cloud‑native architecture to be resilient, stateless, scalable, and testable with automation and reusability as key objectives.
- Contribute to CI/CD implementation using DevOps best practices based on industry and Citi standards and work to implement them.
- Work with key business SMEs to develop an in‑depth understanding of their critical data and reporting needs and business impact of existing data quality and data integrity issues on a detailed level
- Contribute to technical direction and strategic decisions as a technical expert in all development and implementation phases, providing in‑depth and sophisticated analyses to define problems and develop innovative solutions
- Demonstrate a data‑driven approach to problem‑solving and decision‑making, utilising metrics, and performance indicators to assess team efficiency and identify improvement opportunities.
- Partner with QA team to ensure robust testing framework is utilised for functional and nonfunctional testing for the release cycles.
- Partner with Support team to ensure stability of production environment with proactive monitoring and health checks.
- Partner with other Citi development teams to build APIs, integrations and share components that are critical to our platform’s success.
- Exhibit strong leadership qualities, fostering a positive and collaborative work environment, providing guidance and mentorship to team members, and promoting a culture of continuous learning.
- Work closely with business users, stakeholders, BAs, product managers and other development teams to understand problem space, brainstorm ideas, approaches, and solutions.
Recommended Qualifications
- Full‑stack developer with 8-10 years of experience in designing and developing robust, scalable, and maintainable applications applying Object Oriented Design principles
- Extensive experience working with Java Core with extensive hands‑on experience with concurrent programming, Web technologies ( HTML, CSS, React JS, Angular ), REST‑APIs, and Backend using Java technologies (Spring Boot).
- Spring Framework including Core, Integration, Batch, JDBC, Hibernate.
- Distributed Caching frameworks such as Oracle Coherence, Redis or equivalent.
- Cloud computing technologies with practical experience working with containers, microservices and large datasets (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Databases - Relational database e.g., Oracle.
- Experience with software development agents, agile development, CI/CD pipelines, software testing, and code reviews.
- Ability to quickly learn new technologies, adjust priorities, influence highly skilled engineering teams, and guide technology decisions.
- Demonstrated leadership and adhere to scrum.
- Excellent communication and documentation skills, with the ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both written and verbal.
- Strong analytical, problem‑solving skills, and a strategic mindset.
- Advantage Exposure to using AI tools - Claude Code , Devin , Co Pilot , IDE - Anti gravity
- Experience in the financial industry is a significant advantage.
Education
Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
Additional Information
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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Job Family Group: Technology ------------------------------------------------------ Job Family: Applications Development ------------------------------------------------------ Time Type: Full time ------------------------------------------------------ Most Relevant Skills Please see the requirements listed above. ------------------------------------------------------ Other Relevant Skills For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter. ------------------------------------------------------
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