Technical lead for OTC Financial Accounting, SVP

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

Job description

At Citi, we value engineering and foster an environment where our best engineers continue to code and grow their careers.

Oasys Financial is a sub-ledger for Citi’s OTC business and covers global trading books across all asset classes. This system handles millions of trades daily and conducts all sub-ledger activities and is a critical system for the bank. We are taking up an overhaul & re-write of this platform.

We invite applications from experienced and well-rounded senior technologists for a SVP role who can work in a globally distributed team. This role requires strong Technology and Business knowledge of OTC products, trade life cycle, and PnL. The candidate will join a team in the early stages of transformation. The candidate will find themselves spending their time in both coding & business analysis. There will be regular interfacing with senior stakeholders across the bank. The candidate will be expected to demonstrate an established track record of handling senior stakeholders & lead such discussions independently.

Candidates are expected to demonstrate a strong delivery background in the financial industry, preferably in OTC products. We expect depth of knowledge in the Java stack. The candidate should be willing to drive re-architecture and lead by example. The candidate should be able to work in Kubernetes-based deployments in both on-prem and external cloud and deal with a variety of build technologies. The candidate will have limited line management responsibilities, intentionally designed to provide focus on coding & business analysis.

Growth opportunities are excellent, and in the future, the candidate will have options of choosing between engineering, business analysis, or management tracks. The team you’ll be working with is distributed across 3 countries.

The development position involves:

• Strong analytical skills & problem solving
• Requirements analysis and capture, working closely with the business and business-aligned teams to define solutions. Documentation of requirement specifications and guiding junior developers on complex use cases
• Defining application changes, developing & scaling the existing team to drive change
• Mentoring developers & BAs in a globally distributed team
• Ability to establish testing practices in a team
• Development of high-quality software, emphasizing simplicity, maintainability, and reuse
• Participation in code and design reviews
• Good communication with support, other development, and infrastructure teams

Required Skills

• OTC Trade life cycle, Trade modelling in FPML/variants, Settlement and PnL knowledge
• Programming skills – including concurrent, parallel and distributed systems programming
• Strong knowledge of Java, Linux & SQL
• Good understanding of Spring Framework and Kafka
• Strong understanding of automating testing

Desirable Skills:

• Experience with Apache Ignite/ Redis
• Working knowledge of a scripting language such as Groovy, Python, JavaScript, etc.
• Knowledge of HTTP, ReSTful web services, and API design
• Messaging technologies
• Camel, Conductor
• Familiarity with databases, particularly NoSQL e.g. MongoDB, Couchbase, Snowflake, RDBMS.
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Good understanding of the Linux OS

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Job Family Group: Technology

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Job Family: Applications Development

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Time Type: Full time

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