TPS Platform Technology Lead
Belfast, United Kingdom
Job Req ID 21328144Overview
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Responsibilities
The Trade Processing Services (TPS) application is looking for a Developer to lead the efforts to transition our application to smaller services, fully automated CI/CD pipelines and same day delivery. How you get us there is up to you!
The tech stack within TPS is currently solid, featuring Java 8, Spring, most running on Cloud Services, but we don’t want to sit still we are looking for you to help drive us forward.
TPS is Citi’s premier Derivatives, Cash and Exotics trading platform with 180 talented engineers contributing on an application that is used in London, New York, Mexico, Rio, Singapore, Frankfurt, Singapore, Tokyo, Mumbai and Sydney. Citi rules the market in these trading areas and lead its growing, so we need to grow with it.
The numbers flowing across TPS servers are pretty staggering, with trades worth billions moving across our platform on a minute by minute basis. With this in mind we need high levels of engineering excellence, if we go down or make mistakes the financial and regulatory consequences are eye wateringly large. We have made great progress in this area but are continually working on improvements. From the very top of Citi there is a huge focus on stability and engineering quality.
What you need:
- Extensive experience in building applications delivered on cloud-based services.
- Experience in micro services architecture based application development for high volume.
- A good understanding of Java / JVM internals, micro service design and protocols and streaming technologies.
Key Responsibilities:
Make engineering changes that:
- Allow more TPS Services to be deployed independently
- Allow more TPS Services to be released quickly
- Allow more TPS Services to be released safely
Development Value:
- Have massive scope for decision making and tech choices
- Work in a leading banking environment on cloud-based platform building micro services
- Develop and gain an advanced understanding of Rates business, markets, products & flows
Knowledge/Experience:
- Technical skills:
- Significant years of demonstrable and relevant experience
- 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 with the SDLC lifecycle and 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
- Business facing and interpersonal skills:
- As TPS has a global presence, the candidate must have strong communication skills, verbal and written.
- Ability to apply technical skills and knowledge of the Fixed income business to develop creative solutions to meet client and business needs.
- Responsible, agile, and collaborative team worker.
- 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.
Qualifications / Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in a STEM subject.
- Ideally, an understanding of financial derivatives (rates or other) or willing to learn about this area.
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