Please note this remote position will only consider applications from candidates with a 50 mile radius of Manchester city centre.

Overview of Citi:

Citi, the world leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and a presence in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions worldwide. 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. Citi enables 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.

Job Description

Team/Function Overview

We are looking for a skilled Senior Java Developer who will work within the Markets Technology – Business Risk & Controls department across multiple businesses within our Institutional Clients Group

Role / Position Overview

This is a hands-on role developing backend services and API’s for the platform. You will work with the other developers, business analysts and product managers as your key stakeholders to ensure we are meeting their requirements to develop and drive highly scalable product. You will also contribute to the team’s strategy around development and deployment best practices.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain the multiple components of the platform ensuring timely delivery of work items
• Resolve a high impact problem through in-depth evaluation of complex architectures, business processes and industry standards
• Evaluate and perform POCs on new strategic technical products and applications
• Ensure all team members are adhere to our code quality and testing standards
• Serve as advisor or coach to entry and mid-level developers to develop highly resilient and future proof solutions
• Contribute to research and suggest for new projects within the Market Technology

Development Value:

• Opportunity to build modern technology solutions utilising best in class technical tools and frameworks
• You will gain significant knowledge of Business Risk & Controls platforms and products

Skills & Qualifications:

• Significant hands-on experience in Application Development leveraging Java and Spring Boot including scalable backend services and API’s
• Strong understanding of modern architecture and design patterns including Microservices and Even Driven design
• Knowledge of messaging technologies RabbitMQ, Tibco Queue, Apache Kafka etc.
• Professional Experience using SQL DB technologies (Oracle, MS SQL etc.) and in memory caching and searching technologies (ElasticSearch, Hazelcast, Couchbase, etc)
• Previous experience deploying fault-tolerant distributed systems on Linux in a cloud environment and familiar with cloud computing concepts and DevOps tools (Docker, Kubernetes, Openshift)
• Knowledge of testing automation principles and frameworks (e.g. TDD, BDD, contract testing)
• You have experience working with data heavy project focused on data visualisation and analytics
• High development standards under pressure, especially for code quality, code reviews, unit testing, continuous integration, and deployment
• You have an appetite for taking on challenges and leveraging new technologies
• You have experience working in fast paced development environments
• You agree that verbal and written communication skills are vital

Qualifications:

Exceptional candidates who do not meet these criteria may be considered for the role provided they have the necessary skills and experience.

Competencies

• Experience delivering successful projects into production that can be maintained within strict operational margins
• Ability to adjust priorities quickly as circumstances dictate and have experience working in fast paced development environments
• Ability to work autonomously
• Ability to interact with clients and deliver results, taking ideas to production

What we Offer

As well as a competitive salary and consideration for a yearly discretionary bonus Citi offer:

• Award winning pension scheme,
• Life assurance and
• Private medical insurance

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Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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