Applications Development Sr Programmer Analyst - C12 - CHENNAI

Citi is the Market Maker and a global leader in all major Fixed Income markets in across the globe. Unified TPS is Citi’s primary Fixed Income trading platform processing Derivatives, Cash and Exotics products with 3800+ Trading, Sales, Middle Office users globally. Unified TPS, 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

Unified Trade Process System is a dynamic and high-performing division of Citi’s Markets business.

We work on business critical high availability application solutions across 80+ countries. Our applications are considered amongst the best-in-class within the industry, with our eCommerce and analytical products continuing to win industry awards year after year.

The team works closely with end users gaining direct exposure to the fast paced world of capital markets trading. As part of an expansion, the team is looking to hire top-performing technologists with proven track record at Team Lead level, reporting to the Development Project Manager.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Qualifications:

• 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 multi-tier Java/JEE 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 Java (JDK 1.8 or more) Experience with SpringBoot, KAFKA, GRPC, ECS, Mongo, REST API, JUNIT and SQL/PLSQL Basics
• Java performance tuning
• 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 with JNIT/Mockito

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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