Apps Development Group Manager

3 days ago


Pune, Maharashtra, India Citi Full time ₹ 12,00,000 - ₹ 36,00,000 per year

Citi is the Market Maker and a global leader in all major Fixed Income markets in across the globe. Unified TPS is Citi's primary Fixed Income trading platform processing Derivatives, Cash and Exotics products with 3800+ Trading, Sales, Middle Office users globally. Unified TPS, built on state of the art technology stack processes around 200,000 transactions daily and provides real time position , risk management capabilities. It has connectivity to 100+ electronic trading venues and 20+ regulatory bodies globally.

We are looking for a talented and passionate individual to join our Java Server development team and continue to evolve our next-generation trading application. They would lead the efforts to transition our application to smaller services, full automated CI/CD pipelines enabling faster time to market. The successful candidate will gain valuable exposure to the Fixed Income Trading business and an opportunity to work on a large scale, modern technology platform with a global presence

Job Background/context:

Unified Trade Process System is a dynamic and high-performing division of Citi's Markets business.

We work on business-critical high availability application solutions across 80+ countries. Our applications are considered amongst the best-in-class within the industry, with our eCommerce and analytical products continuing to win industry awards year after year.

The team works closely with end users gaining direct exposure to the fast-paced world of capital markets trading. As part of an expansion, the team is looking to hire top-performing technologists with proven track record.

Responsibilities:

  • Hands-on, code contributing engineer that partners on specific delivery with engineering teams where the complexity necessitates the senior engineering leadership. 
  • Actively participates as a stakeholder in Product discussions, providing valuable input on requirements and advocating for initiatives such as technical debt reduction, modernization of technology assets and improvement in the ways of working. 
  • Demonstrating deep technical knowledge and expertise in software development, including programming languages, frameworks, and best practices. 
  • Actively contributes to the implementation of critical features and complex technical solutions. Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code that meets the highest standards of quality. 
  • Provide guidance on scalable, robust, and efficient solutions that align with business requirements and industry best practices. 
  • Offer expert engineering guidance and support to multiple teams, helping them overcome technical challenges, make informed decisions, and deliver high-quality software solutions. 
  • Foster a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement. 
  • Stay up to date with emerging technologies, tools, and industry trends. 
  • Develops architecture, strategy, planning, and problem-solving solutions on an enterprise level. 
  • Manage overall execution of IT strategy and roadmap for the technology area. 
  • Interfaces across several channels, acting as a visionary to proactively assist in defining direction for future projects. 
  • Maintains continuous awareness of business, technical, and infrastructure issues and acts as a sounding board or consultant to aid in the development of creative solutions. 
  • Provides thought leadership in subjects that are key to the business. 
  • Requires sophisticated analytical thought to resolve issues in a variety of complex situations. 
  • Impacts the technology function through contribution to technical direction and strategic decisions. 
  • Mentors' engineers across the organization and is a loud voice in advocating for engineering excellence. 
  • Actively participates as a stakeholder in Product discussions, providing valuable input on requirements and advocating for initiatives such as technical debt reduction, modernization of technology assets and improvement in the ways of working. 
  • Demonstrating deep technical knowledge and expertise in software development, including programming languages, frameworks, and best practices. 
  • Actively contributes to the implementation of critical features and complex technical solutions. Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code that meets the highest standards of quality. 
  • Provide guidance on scalable, robust, and efficient solutions that align with business requirements and industry best practices. 
  • Uses developed communication skills to negotiate and often at higher levels. 
  • Responsible for client engagement, end to end management and delivery of the technology Book of Work and technology roadmap for the application and dependent/related interfaces. 
  • Negotiate with senior leaders across functions and with external parties, as required. 
  • Appropriately assess risk when business 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 behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards. 

Development Value:

This position gives an excellent opportunity for the selected candidate to play a significant role in an exciting and critical business within Citi. As a member of our highly acclaimed Technology team, this role provides the opportunity to participate in and shape the expansion and pre-eminence of our Business working together with our team of highly skilled technologists. We believe it is even more special to do this as part of Citi, a premier financial institution that is one of the biggest and best in the market, and as a part of our team that has a high visibility for our work both inside our larger organization as well as in the global Capital Markets world.  The position will enable you to leverage Citi's incomparable geographical reach, product richness, and engineering expertise and to translate these into a successful and top-of-the-class product offering for our customers.

Knowledge/Experience: 

  • 15+ years hands on experience
  • Strong Knowledge in one of the project management methodologies
  • Experience in designing and implementing Multi-tier applications
  • Excellent analytic & problem solving skills
  • Excellent knowledge in troubleshooting, performance tuning and best practices
  • Experience in Messaging, failover designing and recovery planning
  • Experience in delivering high quality applications
  • Experience in project risk identification techniques, mitigation and escalation
  • Familiar with all phases of the systems lifecycle, from analysis, design and development through to support
  • Experience in developing performance sensitive multi-tier Java/JEE applications
  • Knowledge of the FI market and products is very desirable.

Skills:

  • Self Motivated, Strong interpersonal and articulation skills (spoken and written)
  • Excellent persuasive, influencing and negotiation skills 
  • Outstanding analytic and problem solving skills; innovative and solutions oriented
  • Excellent People and Work management skills

Technical:

  • Excellent knowledge in Java (JDK 1.8 or more) Experience with SpringBoot, KAFKA, GRPC, ECS, Mongo, REST API, JUNIT and SQL/PLSQL Basics
  • Java performance tuning
  • Kubernetes, Openshift, Gradle, Splunk, Prometheus
  • Knowledge of CI/CD Pipeline, Familiarity with TeamCity, UDeploy, Jenkins, SonarQube

Competencies:

  • Innovative and Positive 'Can Do' attitude
  • Ability to make effective judgements on available data / knowledge
  • Planning and Organising – Ability to identify the steps to be taken to achieve objectives
  • Resilience – Used to working towards tight deadlines, under pressure and using appropriate coping methods to stay focused
  • Accountability –self start on goals and achieve targets
  • Strong team orientation and commitment to overall team success; willing to go above and beyond to ensure team success; intense customer focus and commitment to driving quality
  • Leadership – Strong sense of leadership focusing on achieving team satisfaction and delivery goals.

Qualifications:

Graduation/Post Graduation qualifications in Computer Engineering (preferable) or any Engineering stream with a very good academic record throughout.  
A high degree of Analytical ability and Quantitative skills is desirable

Job Family Group:

Technology

Job Family:

Applications Development

Time Type:

Full time

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