Java Developer

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE:

The Developer will play a key leadership role in the build out, and supporting the Strategic Pricing data platform, which is aiming to create a unified framework and aligned operational processes to ensure Citi’s regulatory obligations are met and sustainable going forward - across and it impacts Citi’s Business and regional regulators. A potential candidate will need to understand system and enterprise architecture concepts and will be expected to understand how all components fit together and impact one another. They will work with a global and diverse team of peers as well as liaise closely with Business Analyst, Production Support, and Infrastructure teams. The candidate will also work independently to ensure successful delivery.

Required skills:

•            Experience with the following technologies:

•            Java (Core, JDBC, Collections, I/O), Spring Boot.

•            Exposure to SQL/PL-SQL on Oracle DB

•            Tomcat or Weblogic application server

•            REST web services

•            Unix commands and Korn shell scripting.

•            Familiarity with standard data structures and algorithms.

•            Logical thinking, strong analytical and problem-solving skills; innovative and solutions oriented

•            Effective time management skills to manage multiple priorities

•            Excellent verbal and written communication skills

•            A minimum of 7 years’ application development experience

•            Bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering

Responsibilities:

•            Deliver assigned development projects within agreed schedule, quality and scope expectations

•            Participate in all stages of the SDLC within an agile Scrum environment

•            Form partnership with technology vendors and gain deep understanding of products

•            Interact with senior management to define and drive architectural direction

•            Interact with PMO and translate reported problems/issues into JIRA items to implement

•            Enhance/Re-architect existing components to satisfy new requirements in terms of performance and scalability

•            Produce visual representations for Software designs

•            Provide level 3 (escalation) support for the application

Preferred Skills and Experience:

•            Experience working with the Scrum methodology

•            Experience in developing with Kafka consumers/producers

•            Experience designing and implementing microservices

•            Financial services technology experience preferably in reference data domain

•            Physical and logical data modelling

•            Experience using the following – JIRA, uDeploy, Sonarqube, TeamCity, Artifactory, Git (BitBucket), Openshift