Application Architect - Risk Technology, Vice President

Citigroup Inc.; London; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 200,000

Job description

We are looking for a Vice President in architecture area with experience building robust, high-performance, large-scale applications. We are working on several firm-wide initiatives, and we are seeking individuals who are motivated to take challenging tasks.

Team Background
The Credit Risk Technology Team is responsible for delivering Counterparty Credit Risk Management software solutions. These tools allow salespeople, traders, operations staff, and risk officers to manage Citi’s exposure to financial institutions, governments, and corporates that trade with Citi. The team builds and maintains software that provides a complete platform for our users: limit monitoring, exception management, stress testing analysis, and escalation workflow capabilities are some key areas of focus. Our users rely on the system for an integrated view of trades, collateral, market data, across many dozens of sources.

Ideal Background

• Participates in architecture governance bodies.
• Provides technical leadership to the team of Software Engineers/Analysts. Ensures application design adheres to the appropriate architectural and design patterns in the systems.
• Executes creative architecture solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with the ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions and break down technical problems.
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems.
• Designs & develops scalable micro-services to build a functional component that will support Risk Management functions.
• Partners with the product management team and other stakeholders in brainstorming sessions to identify solutions.
• Hosts sessions for design and code review at multiple levels of the organization.
• Improves our engineering standards and process to make the team more capable and efficient.
• Collaborates effectively with a large global team of software engineers, business analysts, dev-ops, and support staff to deliver software solutions for the business.
• Leads the adoption of new technologies where appropriate to solve business problems while adhering to Citi’s architectural guidelines.
• Coaches junior developers and analysts, helping build the overall engineering capabilities of the team.
• Appropriately assesses 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 behavior, conduct, and business practices, and escalating, managing, and reporting control issues with transparency.
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability for data delivery architectures.
• Full-stack developer with 6+ years of experience in designing and developing robust, scalable, and maintainable applications applying Object Oriented Design principles.
• Advanced knowledge of architecture and one or more programming languages.
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods.
• Advanced knowledge of one or more software, application, and architecture disciplines.
• Hands-on experience in 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, Synk, SONAR, Checkmarx, 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.

Qualification

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, JPA, 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.

Education

• Bachelors or equivalent in the field of engineering.
• Master’s degree an advantage.

Other 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.

Job Family Group: Technology

Job Family: Applications Development

Time Type: Full time