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Senior Java Developer - AVP

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Assistant Vice President, Applications Development Senior Programmer Analyst (C12)
Based in Belfast, Ireland.
The Cross Asset Margin technology teams actively develop and enhance a set of strategic systems and services which are regulatory driven and have a direct bearing on how Citi Capital Markets manages risk arising from trading, including both market and counterparty credit risks. We are responsible for calculating margin requirements for OTC bilateral derivatives and optimizing margin requirements for clients by considering offsets across various financial products using models like VaR, SIMM and Credit Stress. We support traders, salespeople, risk managers, financial controllers and operations staff.
Responsibilities:
- 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.
- Guide team to establish design standard, improving efficiency of development workflow and product rollout.
- Take ownership of smooth Production releases planning and execution.
- Analyze existing operations to identify risks and redundancies.
- Conduct comprehensive assessments to develop solutions.
- Liaise with team members, management to ensure projects are completed to application development and governance standard.
- Keep up-to-date with industry trends and developments.
- Resolve variety of high impact problems/projects through in-depth evaluation of complex business processes, system processes, and industry standards.
- Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating 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.
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Qualifications:
- Proven relevant experience coding in Java.
- Hands on coding experience.
- In-depth knowledge of Java, Spring, Kafka, Distributed Cache/Systems (e.g. Apache Ignite).
- Hands on experience with relational databases like Oracle.
- Any experience with NoSQL databases like MongoDB is preferred.
- Experience with Python is preferred.
- Good exposure to microservices architecture.
- API first design thinking and implementation using Rest, websocket and gRPC.
- Experience with building applications on cloud platform such as Docker, Kubernetes or OpenShift.
- Proven implementation of design patterns.
- Demonstrated knowledge of software development methodologies and techniques.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Able to work independently and as part of a team.
- Able to multi-task and prioritize tasks effectively.
- UI tech stack knowledge will be an advantage.
- Business knowledge of Margin, CVA, XVA, regulatory stress testing is preferred.
- Understanding of Risks (Greeks), risk calculation models like VaR/SIMM preferred and ability to work with Quant team is preferred.


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Education:
- A completed Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Mathematics or equivalent.
Job Family Group:
Technology
Job Family:
Applications Development
Time Type:
Full time
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