Senior Lead Developer - Real Time Pricing and Risk, Vice President

Overview of Citi: Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management.

As a bank with a brain and a soul, Citi creates economic value that is systemically responsible and in our clients’ best interests. As a financial institution that touches every region of the world and every sector that shapes your daily life, our Enterprise Operations & Technology teams are charged with a mission that rivals any large tech company. Our technology solutions are the foundations of everything we do from keeping the bank safe, managing global resources, and providing the technical tools our workers need to be successful to designing our digital architecture and ensuring our platforms provide a first-class customer experience. We reimagine client and partner experiences to deliver excellence through secure, reliable, and efficient services.

Our commitment to diversity includes a workforce that represents the clients we serve from all walks of life, backgrounds, and origins. We foster an environment where the best people want to work. We value and demand respect for others, promote individuals based on merit, and ensure opportunities for personal development are widely available to all. Ideal candidates are innovators with well-rounded backgrounds who bring their authentic selves to work and complement our culture of delivering results with pride. If you are a problem solver who seeks passion in your work, come join us. We’ll enable growth and progress together.

Overview of the Role: This senior lead developer role is within a global application development team responsible for Real Time Pricing and Risk applications for Rates trading business. The role will focus on design and implementation of critical new features as well as architectural and performance improvements. This role requires strong design and programming skills in Java, knowledge of various streaming frameworks as well as familiarity with challenges that arise when implementing real time performant systems.

The role also requires strong familiarity with Rates trading business as well as quantitative foundation of pricing and risk calculations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the team to understand functional and operational requirements
• Lead designs and implementation of robust and testable code in support of the requirements
• Develop certain non-functional features in the system to improve reliability, scalability and performance
• Contribute to the design and implementation of automated test suites
• Participate in code reviews helping other team members improve their code

Key Relationships:

• Real Time Pricing and Risk Team in Warsaw, London, New York
• Other development teams also located in the same regions and India
• Quantitative Analytics team
• Application support organization

Knowledge/Experience:

• 7+ years of relevant experience in Application Development;; at least 5 years’ experience with Java.
• Familiarity with KDB is strongly preferred
• Experience with system analysis and in programming of software applications, especially as it pertains to performance and testability of components
• Familiarity with interest rates products and associated pricing and risk calculations
• Ability to be proactive, adjust priorities quickly
• Experience working on a mature development in a large collaborative environment as well as coming up with ideas that challenge current practices
• Demonstrated leadership skills
• Any Risk or Fixed Income knowledge would be strongly preferred

Technology Skills:

• Experience with Java ecosystem
• Expert in Java development
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and best DevOps practices
• Exposure to profiling, debugging and monitoring tools
• Familiarity with Apache Flink, KDB and Kafka a plus
• Ambition to learn aspects of systems supporting real time interest rate risk calculations

Job Family Group: Technology

Job Family: Applications Development

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