Application Development Sr Programmer for Database.

• 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

• Coordinate development with both internal technology teams and business

• Adhere to engineering standards and strive for best in class

• Assist in third line support during core trading hours

• Motivate, mentor and lead technical teams, evaluate their delivery, guide the members to deliver quality output with responsible delegation and  build a high performance team

• Together with the partner teams, user community, business analysts and Tech management contribute to innovative & best-in-class solutions for our business

Knowledge/Experience:

• 8+ years hands on experience

• Strong Knowledge in one of the project management methodologies

• Experience in designing and implementing Multi-tier applications

• Excellent analytic & problem solving skills

• Excellent knowledge in troubleshooting, performance tuning and best practices

• Experience in Messaging, failover designing and recovery planning

• Experience in delivering high quality applications

• Experience in project risk identification techniques, mitigation and escalation

• Familiar with all phases of the systems lifecycle, from analysis, design and development through to support

• Experience in developing performance sensitive applications

• Knowledge of the FI market and products is very desirable.

Skills:

• Self Motivated, Strong interpersonal and articulation skills (spoken and written)

• Excellent persuasive, influencing and negotiation skills

• Outstanding analytic and problem solving skills; innovative and solutions oriented

Technical:

• Excellent knowledge in Sybase/Oracle/PLSQL

• Excellent Knowledge on the heterogenies replication

• Performance tuning and Debugging

• Kubernetes, Openshift, Gradle, Splunk, Prometheus

• Knowledge of CI/CD Pipeline, Familiarity with TeamCity, UDeploy, Jenkins, SonarQube

• Experience with Design Patterns, Code Review, Coding standard, Unit testing

Qualifications:

• Graduation/Post Graduation qualifications in Computer Engineering (preferable) or any Engineering stream with a very good academic record throughout.  

• A high degree of Analytical ability and Quantitative skills is desirable

Competencies:

• Innovative and Positive ‘Can Do’ attitude

• Ability to make effective judgements on available data / knowledge

• Planning and Organising – Ability to identify the steps to be taken to achieve objectives

• Resilience – Used to working towards tight deadlines, under pressure and using appropriate coping methods to stay focused

• Accountability –self start on goals and achieve targets

• Strong team orientation and commitment to overall team success; willing to go above and beyond to ensure team success; intense customer focus and commitment to driving quality