• Job Description

  Req#: 23656882

  Team Background:

  The Credit Risk Technology – RWA Team is responsible for delivering Counterparty Credit Risk Management software solutions to Citi’s Finance & Risk organization which manages Citi’s exposure to financial institutions, governments and corporates that trade with Citi. The team builds and maintains software used to compute risk metrics. The solutions include consumption of trades, collateral, market data, counterparty and security reference data from over 50 sources, and the computation of optimal margin allocation for portfolios and trades, haircut for security and cash collateral, trade and collateral liquidity, collateral concentration levels and wrong way risk, amongst others that feed into the computation of Exposure at Default (EAD), Risk Weighted Assets (RWA), Pre-Settlement Risk (PSE), and Settlement Risk

  Key Responsibilities

  • Design & develop scalable micro-services to build an functional components that will support Risk Management functions

  • Partner with the product management team and other stakeholders in brainstorming sessions to identify solutions

  • Provide technical leadership to the team of Software Engineers/Analyst. Ensure application design adheres to the appropriate architectural and design patterns in the systems.

  • Host sessions for design and code review at multiple levels of the organization

  • Improve our engineering standards and process to make the team more capable and efficient

  • Collaborate effectively with a large global team of software engineers, business analysts, dev-ops and support staff to deliver software solutions for the business.

  • Lead the adoption of new technologies where appropriate to solve business problems while adhering to Citi’s architectural guidelines.

  • Coach junior developers and analysts, helping build the overall engineering capabilities of the team

  • Appropriately assess risk when 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.

  Ideal background

  • Full-stack developer with 6+ years of experience in designing and developing robust, scalable, and maintainable applications applying Object Oriented Design principles

  • Hands-on experience in Web technologies ( HTML, CSS, React JS), REST-APIs, and Backend using Java/J2EE technologies

  • Strong knowledge of cloud platforms(AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud) and deployment/packaging solutions such as Dockers/Kubernetes, OpenShift

  • Experience with Agile software development processes with a strong emphasis on test driven development

  • Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and experience in tools such as JIRA, BlackDuck, SONAR etc

  • Deep understanding of JVM internals such as class loading and memory management

  • Ability to evaluate design trade-offs and document choices effectively

  • Demonstrated capacity to build sophisticated tooling for development and production team use

  
  Skills

  Extensive experience working with most if not all the technologies listed below:

  • Java Core with extensive hands-on experience with concurrent programming.

  • Spring Framework including Core, Integration, Batch, JDBC, Hibernate.

  • Distributed Caching frameworks such as Oracle Coherence, Redis or equivalent.

  • Cloud computing technologies with practical experience working with containers, microservices and large datasets (Docker, Kubernetes).

  • Databases - RDBMS preferably Oracle, NoSQL preferably MongoDB.

  • Familiarity with Linux environment including scripting skills.

  • SDLC/Dev Ops - Git/BitBucket, CI/CD pipeline frameworks such as Jenkins, SonarQube, JIRA, Any secure coding toolkits.

  Qualifications/Education

  • Graduate in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) discipline. Master’s degree an advantage.

  Competencies

  • Excellent oral and written English

  • Strong leadership

  • Ability to collaborate in a large global team and influence key architectural decisions across groups

  • Ability to work well under pressure

  Citi Canada is an equal opportunity employer. Accordingly, we will make accommodations to respond to the needs of people with disabilities (including, without limitation, physical and mental health disabilities) during the recruitment process and otherwise in accordance with law. Individuals who view themselves as Aboriginals, members of visible minority or racialized communities, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

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  Job Family Group:

  Technology

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  Job Family:

  Applications Development

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  Time Type:

  Full time

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