Overview

Prime Brokerage Technology provides solutions that underpin the operations of our clients and traders, forming the foundation of Citi’s Prime Finance business. This is an area of great opportunity and a major growth target for Citi, with technology providing the key to unlock this potential. This is an excellent opportunity for the right candidate to join Citi at this exciting time.

Responsibilities

• Ownership and delivery on a variety of components (Java/Kotlin) within the Core Prime Brokerage platform. Hands-on development.
• Provide technical leadership for an agile development team, championing best practices in continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD). Foster a culture of quality through automated testing initiatives. Drive continuous improvement in SDLC, agile and DevOps processes using key performance indicators, including DORA metrics, to enhance team efficiency and software delivery.
• Lead design, planning and estimation discussions within the team and with partners across the department and with business stakeholders.
• Conduct high-level system analysis and architecture design, ensuring alignment with business requirements, technical standards and the overall architecture blueprint.
• Facilitate requirement gathering and translate complex business needs into technical specifications.
• Oversee the creation and maintenance of project and technical documentation.
• Identify and mitigate risks throughout the SDLC, proposing solutions to complex problems.
• Utilize advanced knowledge of system flow and develop standards for coding, testing, debugging, and implementation.
• Oversee production support processes, collaborating with operations and business stakeholders. Analyze issue patterns to drive improvements. Guide documentation efforts, maintain on-call rotations and lead post-mortems. Lead efforts to resolve root causes and enhance performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Provide technical leadership and serve as advisor or coach to mid-level developers, analysts and grads.

Technical Experience

• Java & Test-Driven Development are essential.
• Experience in additional technologies is advantageous, including: Kotlin, Java, Kafka Streams.
• Cloud technologies (Kubernetes, OpenShift).
• Messaging technologies (Kafka, Solace, TIBCO).
• Database / data store / data query technologies (SQL Server, Trino, Mongo, S3).
• Observability technologies (OpenTelemetry, Elastic Stack / ELK, Grafana).

What we need from you

• Extensive relevant experience in applications development or systems analysis role.
• Extensive experience in 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.
• Clear and concise written and verbal communication.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience; Master’s 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.

EEO and Accessibility

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