ORGANIZATION OVERVIEW:

Citi Market Operations Technology is currently at a pivotal point in its evolution and journey to implement a target operating model. We take pride and are passionate about our People and our culture. We are invested in people and their development. We are transforming and simplifying our operating model and creating an exciting environment which encourages diversity of thought and inclusion.
We are a dynamic, global and diverse Organization, supporting operations areas that have a presence in over 60 Countries. Our Technology groups develop and implement a wide range of applications that support the Operations groups which are core to the success of the Markets business and has significant impact across the lifecycle of a Trade by providing innovative products and solutions. We partner extensively with a range of internal stakeholders including product aligned Middle Office groups, Settlements, Margin, Asset Servicing, Listed Derivative & Commodities Operations. We support an extensive range of Capital Markets products and services including Fixed Income (FX, Rates, Credit, Muni, Cash and Derivatives) where Citi is consistently a dominant top 3 player in the market, Equity (Cash, Derivatives, Prime Brokerage, Futures, Listed Derivatives, FXPB) where Citi has a significant growth program to continue to build out its capabilities and services; and Syndicates where we support both FI and EQ new issues and IPOs. We play a key role in supporting our global clients to ensure they have a first-class experience in service performance and strategic partnership.
We have re-imagined how to provide technology and service in our domain through the alignment of our team vision, culture, and aggressive retirement plan for legacy applications and adoption of a micro-based containerized cloud environment. We encourage our people to create, explore and be adventurous whilst taking measured risk, adopting safe practices to protect the firm. Data lineage and optimization is core to how we develop our eco system. We are growing our capabilities using artificial intelligence, natural language processing and machine learning.
Our roles entail ensuring we operate in a robust control environment, whilst in a fast-paced workplace. We comply with global regulations and internal policies and adopt a proactive approach to identifying opportunities to reduce risk through the continuous evaluation of our controls; to protect our clients, the firm and our reputation.
We work closely with our external global peers, partners and regulators, and play an integral part in leading an agenda at the forefront to optimize and streamline processes and drive strategy across our industry.
Asset Servicing Technology team is part of wider Markets Operations Technology group. In this role we are looking for a Senior Full stack developer with hands on experience in delivering crtiical strategic businnes and tech transformation projects.

Our strategic application, ASPEN (Asset Servicing Processing Environments), provides Asset Servicing processing capabilities globally, including announcement capture, stock record capture and notifications to internal and external clients. This is an opportunity to join a global technology team and work on some exciting tech transformation initiatives.

• This is a Vice President Apps Dev Tech Lead Analyst role within the Asset Servicing Tech group. You will be a lead full stack developer within the Client Servicing pod responsible for the delivering key business and tech mandatory enhancements.
• This is a great opportunity to join a high performing, high profile and energized team.
• You will also get the opportunity to liaise between key technology and business partners across Markets Operations and Tech.

QUALIFICATION AND SKILLS:

• Relevant experience in the Financial Service industry preferably in Asset Servicing processing
• Experienced skills in Java, Angular & Oracle databases
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering or equivalent
• Experienced in driving software delivery and transformation through Agile practices and processes, with a focus of establishing Continuous Delivery culture and process
• Exceptional communicator who loves working with people, confident communicating at all levels from an individual team to the entire enterprise
• 6-10 years experience in Applications Development role
• Demonstrated ability to act as SME in this area and guide junior resources.
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication
• Demonstrated problem-solving and decision-making skills
• Ability to work under pressure and manage deadlines or unexpected changes in expectations or requirements
• Experience working in Oracle and Schema less Databases.
• Experience in Big Data systems like Hadoop/Hive
• Experience working with Elasticsearch/ELK stack.

EDUCATION:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree
• 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.
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MOST RELEVANT SKILLS

Please see the requirements listed above.
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OTHER RELEVANT SKILLS

For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.
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• Work closely with business stakeholders and technology teams to drive execution and delivery
• Lead a culture of innovation & experimentation, support full software lifecycle that incorporates the best of technology approaches & delivery methodologies
• Actively participate in brainstorming session and provide solid inputs to the team and ensure best practices are followed within the team.
• Validate detailed requirements, working through and delivery of solutions.
• Influence technical architecture and negotiate/communicate with senior leaders across functions, as well as communicate with external parties as necessary
• Provide thought leadership on how to grow the platform.
• Hands-on Development opportunity across the latest niche technologies like ELK, Kafka, Mongo, Microservices
• Continuous Collaboration with teams spread across geography.
• Ensure Code quality and proper coverage is maintained, using tools like Secure Assist, Sonar etc.
• Ensure proper code governance using GIT/Bitbucket