Job Description

Overview of Citi:

Citi is a world-leading global bank. We have approximately 200 million customer accounts and a presence in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions worldwide. We provide 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. We enable clients to achieve their strategic financial objectives by providing them with cutting-edge ideas, best-in-class products and solutions, and unparalleled access to capital and liquidity.

Citi Belfast is one of the largest employers in Northern Ireland with a diverse and talented team of over 3000 people from over 40 different nationalities across our four Belfast offices.

We are the only global investment bank operating in Northern Ireland. Every day, our local experts interact with global teams in over 100 countries developing and supporting next-generation technology solutions for the enterprise and delivering critical services to the bank and its customers, to make sure we are a stronger and safer organization for our clients.

You will have a truly global reach, which will provide you with new experiences and development opportunities right here in Belfast\xe2\x80\x99s iconic Titanic Quarter.

The role:

The Applications Development Technology Lead Analyst is a senior level position responsible for establishing and implementing new or revised application systems and programs in coordination with the Technology team. The overall objective of this role is to lead applications systems analysis and programming activities.

Responsibilities:

Partner with multiple management teams to ensure appropriate integration of functions to meet goals as well as identify and define necessary system enhancements to deploy new products and process improvements

Resolve variety of high impact problems/projects through in-depth evaluation of complex business processes, system processes, and industry standards

Provide expertise in area and advanced knowledge of applications programming and ensure application design adheres to the overall architecture blueprint

Utilize advanced knowledge of system flow and develop standards for coding, testing, debugging, and implementation

Develop comprehensive knowledge of how areas of business, such as architecture and infrastructure, integrate to accomplish business goals

Provide in-depth analysis with interpretive thinking to define issues and develop innovative solutions

Serve as advisor or coach to mid-level developers and analysts, allocating work as 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.

Qualifications:

Proven years of relevant experience in Apps Development or systems analysis role

Extensive experience system analysis and in programming of software applications

Experience in managing and implementing successful projects

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

Education:

Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s degree/University degree or equivalent experience

Master\xe2\x80\x99s degree preferred

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

What We Offer:

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.

We\xe2\x80\x99ll provide you with the resources to meet your unique needs, empower you to make healthy decisions, and allow you to choose which benefits suit you and your personal life best.

Visit our page to learn more.

Highlights to our core benefits include:

Award winning pension

On-site health services

Private medical insurance packages to suit your personal circumstances

Paid parental leave

Generous holiday allowance starting at 27 Days plus bank holidays; increasing with tenure

Citi Belfast also champions diversity within our workforce, which helps us be well and live well together. We have over 40 different nationalities in our Northern Ireland offices, are a vocal supporter of LGBTQ+ rights, and are proud to have 47% of our leadership team made up of individuals who identify as women.

We encourage and lead inclusivity through our Pride, Disability, Multicultural, Families Matter, and Women affinity networks that are run by and for, Citi Belfast colleagues; providing them with the support they need in their personal and professional journeys and supplying them with the tools to help educate colleagues on all things related to each network to help us work better together.

Are you passionate about engineering, testing, automation and building high-quality software? Can you work across diverse teams to spread your passion and experience to raise the bar for everyone? Do you enjoy working in a collaborative Agile environment and seeing the applications that you build making users happy? If you are excited about technical leadership, then this is the ideal role for you.

Sitting within Equity Derivatives Data & Analytics, the Risk Reference Data Group provides solutions that underpin the operations of our clients and traders that provide the foundation of our Equity Derivatives business. This is an area of great opportunity and has been identified as a major strategic transformational area for Citi \xe2\x80\x93 with technology providing the key to unlock this potential.

Key Responsibilities:

• Delivery and Ownership of Reference Data components (Java/C#/Kotlin) within the Equity Derivatives Risk Reference Data Ecosystem
• Developer-led automated testing
• Playing a key role as part of the global technical leadership team
• Working within an Agile team focussed on Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment
• Participation in design, planning and estimation discussions within the team
• Partner with multiple management teams to ensure appropriate integration of functions to meet goals as well as identify and define necessary system enhancements to deploy new products and process improvements
• Resolve variety of high impact problems/projects through in-depth evaluation of complex business processes, system processes, and industry standards
• Provide expertise in area and advanced knowledge of applications programming and ensure application design adheres to the overall architecture blueprint
• Utilize advanced knowledge of system flow and develop standards for coding, testing, debugging, and implementation
• Develop comprehensive knowledge of how areas of business, such as architecture and infrastructure, integrate to accomplish business goals
• Provide in-depth analysis with interpretive thinking to define issues and develop innovative solutions
• Provide technical leadership and serve as advisor or coach to mid-level developers, analysts and grads.

Job Background:

The Equity Derivatives business competes in a highly competitive marketplace and have embarked on an ambitious and exciting strategic risk buildout, underpinned by our risk reference data build out.

Our clients rely on us to provide consistently high levels of service to ensure our key data pillars of ingestion, transformation, consistency, replication, and availability are delivered without failure or error every day.

We are part way through a journey of replacing legacy components with test-driven, cloud-native microservices that provide stability, scalability, and release-agility by design.

Your role will be to drive the engineering transformation across both the software and the teams.

Knowledge/Experience:

• Background of delivering software using an iterative Agile approach.
• Track record of quality-led engineering using developer-led automated testing, CI/CD, micro-services, containerized deployment and Cloud engineering.
• Proven record of accomplishment in owning and driving success delivery to business users.
• Comfortable dealing product owners to understand requirements and explore solutions
• Ability to focus on multiple projects simultaneously
• Previous experience and knowledge of Equity Derivatives desirable (but not essential).
• Working in a collaborative leadership capacity as \xe2\x80\x9cfirst among peers\xe2\x80\x9d

Required Skills:

• Open and collaborative communication
• Pride in delivering solutions to make users happy
• Experience and aptitude of Agile and DevOps approaches \xe2\x80\x93 e.g. continuous integration, test automation, frequent releases, containerization
• Experience with JVM based development using Java, kotlin or Scala
• Experience of development using C# beneficial
• Experience of developing reactive Web-based UI (either React or Angular)
• Experience of developing using messaging middleware systems such as Kafka, Solace etc.
• Understanding of HTTP and REST based architectures
• Basic knowledge of relational databases and SQL
• Any experience with tools such as Jenkins, Kubernetes, OpenShift and Amazon Web Services would be beneficial.

Qualifications:

• Degree in technical/quantitative subject preferred (e.g. Computer Science, Math, Engineering etc)
• Exceptional candidates who do not meet these criteria may be considered for the role provided they have the necessary skills and experience

Competencies:

• Ability and willingness to take personal responsibility for timeliness and quality of delivery
• Strong collaborative communication with business users and other technology teams
• Culture of continuous improvement \xe2\x80\x93 always striving to approve the processes and practice of self and others
• Comfortable with giving and receiving open and honest feedback

Job Family Group: Technology



Job Family: Applications Development



Time Type: Full time



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