Applications Development Sr Programmer Analyst

Applications Development Sr Programmer Analyst

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Job Overview

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.

Citi Transaction Services, within Global Funds Services, is undergoing a multi-year transformation to modernize its trade processing, middle-office, and fund services applications. This strategic initiative aims to create a robust, scalable, and configurable system for processing financial instruments, utilizing a cutting-edge, cloud-ready technology stack adaptable for future expansion. We are responding to the evolving Securities Services landscape by prioritizing platform efficiency, a consistent global operating model, enhanced capabilities, a robust data strategy, and value-added services.

Our transformation is guided by core principles : service-oriented architecture with API capabilities for seamless integration; reliability and simplicity for user-friendliness; low latency and high performance for responsiveness; multi-instruction processing for complex workflows; alignment with data strategy for informed decision-making; automation to eliminate manual touchpoints; and a modernized technology stack leveraging innovations like reactive microservices, streaming data processing, and distributed caching. We employ diverse database technologies (RDBMS and NoSQL) for optimal flexibility and efficiency.

This is a unique opportunity to contribute to a state-of-the-art platform and demonstrate leadership. As a Senior Programmer Analyst, you will drive business and operational efficiencies by designing and implementing technology architectures and solutions within our strategic operating platforms. This involves taking ownership of critical deliverables, proactively collaborating with stakeholders across technology and business teams, and effectively communicating technical solutions to both technical and non-technical audiences. You will play a key role in shaping the future of our platform and mentoring junior team members.

We are looking for Applications Development Sr Programmer Analyst. The ideal candidate possesses strong technical expertise in server-side Java development (Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring JPA, JDBC, Hibernate), functional programming, testing frameworks (JUnit, Mockito), RESTful / GraphQL APIs, messaging (Kafka, TIBCO EMS, IBM MQ), SFTP, microservices architecture (Kubernetes / Docker), CI / CD tools, and SQL / NoSQL databases. Front-end experience (React, JavaScript, HTML, CSS) is a plus. Strong communication, collaboration, and leadership skills are essential for success in this role.

Responsibilities :

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure specifications are converted into flexible, scalable, and maintainable solution designs. Evaluate project deliverables to ensure they meet specifications and architectural standards.
• Work as part of development teams to design and build complex solutions, ensuring alignment with the architecture blueprint, standards, target state architecture, and strategies.
• Coordinate, execute, and participate in component integration (CIT), system integration testing (SIT), and user acceptance testing (UAT) to identify and resolve application errors and ensure quality software deployment.
• Possess a solid grasp of software design patterns and approaches. Understand application-level software architecture and make technical trade-off decisions.
• Solve complex architecture / design and business problems, developing extensible solutions. Work to simplify, optimize, and remove bottlenecks.
• Provide mentoring and guidance to junior engineers, offering feedback and direction on specific engineering tasks.
• Maintain application hygiene and address any Risk & Control items.
• Work independently on project deliverables, articulate issues / challenges, and proactively communicate risks.
• Handle code releases in various environments.

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