
Applications Development Sr Programmer Analyst - C12 - CHENNAI
- Job Req Id:
- 25893533
- Location(s):
- Chennai, India
- Job Type:
- On-Site/Resident
- Posted:
- Aug. 12, 2025
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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.
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
- Ensure essential procedures are followed and help define operating standards and processes
- Serve as advisor or coach to new or lower level analysts
- Has the ability to operate with a limited level of direct supervision.
- Can exercise independence of judgement and autonomy.
- 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.
- Drive adoption of capabilities across regions by partnering with regional business and technology teams
- You will contribute to the microservice architecture development including RESTAPI and Graphql
- Develop approaches to integrate data into the DataHub (EAP) and prototype methods of developing insights on that data with our business analytics teams and digital product teams.
- Assist in troubleshooting Data and Client experience issues by leveraging our capabilities and / or working with other teams to dive into root cause analysis.
- Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture,
- Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements.
- Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc.
- Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using SQL and Cloud ‘big data’ technologies.
- Participate in all team ceremonies including planning, grooming, product demonstration and team retrospectives.
- Build analytics tools that utilize the data pipeline to provide actionable insights into customer acquisition, operational efficiency and other key business performance metrics.
- Work with stakeholders including the Executive, Product, Data and Design teams to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs.
- Keep our data separated and secure across national boundaries through multiple data centers and AWS/GCP regions.
- Create data tools for analytics and data scientist team members that assist them in building and optimizing our product into an innovative industry leader.
- Work with data and analytics experts to strive for greater functionality in our data system.
- Ability to adjust priorities quickly as circumstances dictate
Mandatory skills: Java, Pyhton, Pyspark & Java Microservices
Secondary skills: Hadoop, HBase or any RDBMS
Nice to have skills: GCP/AI/AWS
Qualifications:
- 8-10 years 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
- Subject Matter Expert (SME) in at least one area of Applications Development
- Ability to adjust priorities quickly as circumstances dictate
- Demonstrated leadership and project management skills
- Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
- Experience or knowledge with integration of these tools with web, mobile and assisted channels.
- Understanding or ability to dive into data and analyze for quality, consistency, conformity and become an SME / data steward of the Citi client datasets
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills; proven ability to engage and influence technology and business stakeholders at most levels within an organization on complex technical solutions.
- Experience in Java, JVM and python languages primarily, but familiarity with other modern languages is a huge plus.
- Experience with Hadoop, Python, Spark, analytic methods and frameworks is a plus.
- Experience with real-time streaming and stream processing frameworks is a plus
- Experience with cloud architectures including Google Cloud, Amazon AWS is a plus
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree/University degree in computer science Engineering or equivalent experience
- Master's degree in computer science Engineering is preferred
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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