Digital Software Engineering Senior Analyst, Assistant Vice President

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Job Overview

Are you looking for a career move that will put you at the heart of a global financial institution? Then bring your quantitative skills in Software Engineering to Citi’s Production Support and Assurance team.

By Joining Citi, you will become part of a global organisation whose mission is to serve as a trusted partner to our clients by responsibly providing financial services that enable growth and economic progress.   

Team/Role Overview

Our Production Support & Assurance Team plays a critical role in maintaining the stability, availability, and performance of business-critical applications. The team's primary mission is to ensure seamless operations by proactively monitoring systems, swiftly resolving production issues, and driving long-term stability through root cause analysis and permanent remediation.

We work at the intersection of technology and business, partnering with development, infrastructure, and business stakeholders to ensure that production systems are reliable, scalable, and continuously improved. This team operates in a fast-paced, high-impact environment where real-time responsiveness, technical expertise, and strong communication are key.

The Digital Software Engineering Senior Analyst is a seasoned professional role. Applies in-depth disciplinary knowledge, contributing to the development of new techniques and the improvement of processes and work-flow for the area or function. Integrates subject matter and industry expertise within a defined area. Requires in-depth understanding of how areas collectively integrate within the sub-function as well as coordinate and contribute to the objectives of the function and overall business. Evaluates moderately complex and variable issues with substantial potential impact, where development of an approach/taking of an action involves weighing various alternatives and balancing potentially conflicting situations using multiple sources of information.

What you’ll do

• Accountable for executing and driving mid-size feature application design and development efforts to completion, serving as a development lead on medium-scale projects and supporting the execution of larger efforts.

• Proficient at operating with considerable autonomy and discretion as you will significantly influence the way an application is designed and developed by providing subject specific expertise and an advanced level of understanding of application programming principles.

• Sought after due to ability to analyse and troubleshoot coding, application performance and design challenges.

• Capable of research in root cause of development and performance concerns as well as the resolution of defects.

• Have a deep understanding of the technical requirements for the solutions being built.

• Understand engineering needs including those required to build, maintain, and operate the system through all phases of its life.

• Proficient in information modelling, data structures and algorithms.

• Understand maintenance characteristics, runtime properties and dependencies that exist in support of your system’s software. These dependencies will include but not limited to: hardware, platform, operating system, performance and load requirements, as well as contingencies with upstream and downstream systems.

• Demonstrate an advanced understanding of supported main system flows and possess a comprehensive understanding of how the system and others (i.e. architecture or infrastructure) collectively integrate to contribute towards achieving business objectives. Using this expertise, assist with the development of standards for coding, testing, debugging and implementation. This will ensure application design adheres to the overall architecture blueprint.

• Participate in design discussions as a Development Lead and as such will play the part of a key decision maker in driving design decisions. This is evidenced by your knowledge of the application code details and your experience with the technology and teams engaged.

• Work with limited guidance, seeking guidance only as needed as the development and delivery strategy is defined; the design is not.

• Exhibit the ability to turn complex application design into a well written application.

• Partner with industry vendors that provide technology or user experience design components that support our Digital architecture and work with vendors on our implementation plans and roadmaps identifying partnership opportunities to increase our development velocity and our learnings.

• Participates in the full development life cycle, identify dependencies between agile and waterfall delivery, working within broadly defined parameters, including test plan execution and software quality needs

• Directly impact the business by influencing strategic functional decisions through advice, counsel or provided services. This will require persuading and influencing others through strong and comprehensive communication and diplomacy skills.

• Communicate progress, anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, identify, assess, track and mitigate issues/risks at multiple levels.

• Recognize discordant views and take part in constructive dialog to resolve them.

• Work across teams to optimize processes.

• Regularly review metrics and proactively seek out new and improved mechanisms for visibility ensuring your program stays aligned with organization objectives.

• Continuously assess development processes, test plans, and operations.

• Work with teams to improve concurrent project delivery.

• Streamline and / or eliminate excess process in any area of architecture, build, delivery, production operations environment, or business area where the same efforts (or issues) are repeated year-over-year.

• Share knowledge with the team in various forums (brown bags, engineering forums etc.) and demonstrate a higher level of knowledge through industry certifications

• 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 behaviour, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

What we’ll need from you

• Demonstrated years of experience in a product development/product management environment

• Strong analytical and quantitative skills; Data driven and results-oriented

• Experience delivering with an agile methodology

• Experience in affecting large culture change

• Experience leading infrastructure programs

• Skilled at working with third party service providers

• Excellent written and oral communication skills

What we can offer you

We work hard to have a positive financial and social impact on the communities we serve. In turn, we put our employees first and provide the best-in-class benefits they need to be well, live well and save well.

By joining Citi Zurich, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), but also receive a competitive base salary (which is annually reviewed), and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits such as: 

• Generous holiday allowance starting at 25 days plus bank holidays; increasing with tenure

• A discretional annual performance related bonus 

• Health Insurance

• Pension Fund

• Lunch Allowance

• Special discounts for employees, family, and friends 

• Access to an array of learning and development resources 

Alongside these benefits Citi is committed to ensuring our workplace is where everyone feels comfortable coming to work as their whole self every day.  We want the best talent around the world to be energised to join us, motivated to stay, and empowered to thrive. 

Sounds like Citi has everything you need? Then apply to discover the true extent of your capabilities.

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Job Family Group:

Technology

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Job Family:

Digital Software Engineering

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Time Type:

Full time

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Most Relevant Skills

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Other Relevant Skills

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