Lead Java Developer (VP)

We are looking for a talented and passionate individual to join our application 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

Responsibilities:

Lead or guide developers in an Application Development team in an effort to accomplish established goals as well as conduct personnel duties for team (e.g. performance evaluations, hiring and disciplinary actions)

Utilize in-depth knowledge and skills across multiple Applications Development areas to provide technical oversight across systems and applications

Develop comprehensive knowledge of how areas of business integrate to accomplish business goals

Provide evaluative judgment based on analysis of factual data in complicated and unique situations

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

Impact the Applications Development area through monitoring delivery of end results, participate in budget management, and handling day-to-day staff management issues, including resource management and allocation of work within the team/project

Ensure essential procedures are followed and contribute to defining standards negotiating with external parties when necessary

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, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.

Qualifications:

Strong proven relevant commercial experience in the Financial Service industry

Solid understanding on financial products like Fixed Income securities and expertise on Security Financing Transactions.

Experience as senior developer and tech expert in an Applications Development team with good understanding of major programming languages/frameworks like Java / Spring stack for microservice development and a demonstrable understanding of Java internals (JIT, advanced debugging scenarios, JVM memory management etc.)

Extensive experience in building applications delivered on cloud-based services.

Experience in micro services architecture based application development for high volume.

Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication

Demonstrable understanding and experience of engineering best practices: design patterns, coding standard, code review, unit testing via Mockito and Junit

Ability to develop strong relationships with others, effectively influencing peers and business partners.

Self-motivated and organized, with determination to achieve goals; ability to work autonomously when required.

Proven project management skills

Education:

Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience

Master’s degree preferred