
Senior Java Developer - AVP
- Job Req Id:
- 25896308
- Location(s):
- Belfast, United Kingdom
- Job Type:
- On-Site/Resident
- Posted:
- Aug. 18, 2025
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Job Overview
Citi is a world-leading global bank. We have approximately 200 million customer accounts and a presence in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions worldwide. We provide consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management. We enable clients to achieve their strategic financial objectives by providing them with cutting-edge ideas, best-in-class products and solutions, and unparalleled access to capital and liquidity.
This job requires working within the context of a larger and distributed team – with globally located colleagues for in APAC, EMEA, NAM regions.
Responsibilities:
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
Utilize in-depth specialty knowledge of applications development to analyze complex problems/issues, provide evaluation of business process, system process, and industry standards, and make evaluative judgement
Recommend and develop security measures in post implementation analysis of business usage to ensure successful system design and functionality
Consult with users/clients and other technology groups on issues, recommend advanced programming solutions, and install and assist customer exposure systems
Serve as advisor or coach to new or lower level analysts
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:
Significant level of relevant experience
Experience in systems analysis and programming of software applications
Experience in managing and implementing successful projects
Working knowledge of consulting/project management techniques/methods
Ability to work under pressure and manage deadlines or unexpected changes in expectations or requirements
Skills & Experience:
• Significant experience as Java Developer and demonstratable exp in Java 8.
• Experience working with Spring (Core, Integration, Batch)/Hibernate and Messaging technologies like MQ,KAKFA/ActiveMQ and proven experience with using them in a large scale environment.
• Hands-on experience in building/deploying Microservices using ECS (Kubernetes/Openshift) i:e Containerize Java applications using Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes environments and monitor/manage through Openshift
• Knowledge of SQL in the context of a major RDBMS such as DB2, Oracle.
• Exposure and hands on in Microservices, Distributed Cache (REDIS, Couchbase) and Cloud technologies
• Good to have knowledge and experience in Big data – HBASE and Impala concepts.
• Experienced with XML parsing (including schemas), JSON and third-party libraries like Gauva, lombok.
• Implement Kafka consumers and producers, configure Kafka clusters, and integrate Kafka into Java applications
• Methodologies - Agile, Waterfall, Test Driven Development.
• Tools – Git, IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, Maven, TeamCity, Jenkins, JIRA and automated testing tools like Junit
• Excellent project management, time management, verbal and written communications skills, as the job entails simultaneously managing multiple projects with internal and external stakeholders.
• Proactive attitude, ability to run projects with minimal direction given the geographically distributed nature of the tea
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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Job Family Group:
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Job Family:
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Time Type:
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