Senior Software Engineer - Risk Technology, Vice President

We are looking for a Vice President in application development 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.

Key Responsibilities

1. Design & develop scalable micro-services to build functional components that will support Risk Management functions.
2. Partner with the product management team and other stakeholders in brainstorming sessions to identify solutions.
3. Provide technical leadership to the team of Software Engineers/Analyst. Ensure application design adheres to the appropriate architectural and design patterns in the systems.
4. Host sessions for design and code review at multiple levels of the organization.
5. Improve our engineering standards and process to make the team more capable and efficient.
6. Collaborate effectively with a large global team of software engineers, business analysts, dev-ops, and support staff to deliver software solutions for the business.
7. Lead the adoption of new technologies where appropriate to solve business problems while adhering to Citi’s architectural guidelines.
8. Coach junior developers and analysts, helping build the overall engineering capabilities of the team.
9. Appropriately assess risk when decisions are made, demonstrating 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 behaviour, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

Ideal Background

1. Full-stack developer with multiple years of experience in designing and developing robust, scalable, and maintainable applications applying Object Oriented Design principles.
2. Hands-on experience in Web technologies (HTML, CSS, React JS), REST-APIs, and Backend using Java/J2EE technologies.
3. Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud) and deployment/packaging solutions such as Dockers/Kubernetes, OpenShift.
4. Experience with Agile software development processes with a strong emphasis on test driven development.
5. Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and experience in tools such as JIRA, Synk, SONAR etc.
6. Deep understanding of JVM internals such as class loading and memory management.
7. Ability to evaluate design trade-offs and document choices effectively.
8. Demonstrated capacity to build sophisticated tooling for development and production team use.

Skills

Extensive experience working with most if not all the technologies listed below:

1. Java Core with extensive hands-on experience with concurrent programming.
2. Spring Framework including Core, Integration, Batch, JDBC, Hibernate.
3. Distributed Caching frameworks such as Oracle Coherence, Redis or equivalent.
4. Cloud computing technologies with practical experience working with containers, microservices and large datasets (Docker, Kubernetes).
5. Databases - RDBMS preferably Oracle, NoSQL preferably MongoDB.
6. Familiarity with Linux environment including scripting skills.
7. SDLC/Dev Ops - Git/Bitbucket, CI/CD pipeline frameworks such as Jenkins, SonarQube, JIRA, Any secure coding toolkits.

Qualifications/Education

1. Graduate in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) discipline. Master’s degree an advantage.

Competencies

1. Excellent oral and written English.
2. Strong leadership.
3. Ability to collaborate in a large global team and influence key architectural decisions across groups.
4. Ability to work well under pressure.