Software Engineering - Intermediate Analyst

Citi is a world-leading global bank. We have approximately 200 million customer accounts and a presence in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions worldwide. We provide consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management. We enable clients to achieve their strategic financial objectives by providing them with cutting-edge ideas, best-in-class products and solutions, and unparalleled access to capital and liquidity.

Citi Belfast is one of the largest employers in Northern Ireland with a diverse and talented team of over 4000 people from over 68 different nationalities across our four Belfast offices. We are the only global investment bank operating in Northern Ireland. Every day, our local experts interact with global teams in over 100 countries developing and supporting next-generation technology solutions for the enterprise and delivering critical services to the bank and its customers, to make sure we are a stronger and safer organization for our clients. You will have a truly global reach, which will provide you with new experiences and development opportunities right here in Belfast’s iconic Titanic Quarter.

Compliance Technology is building a sophisticated next generation surveillance solution on top of a distributed data platform. The Belfast team is the global centre for the creation of feature-based surveillance algorithms using cutting edge technologies and techniques. The volume and variety of data involved in these surveillances and the complexity of the algorithms results in one of most challenging and appropriate use cases for big data technologies

This developer role is an individual contributor role within a fast paced technology delivery organization supporting regulatory compliance. This position is part of a Trade surveillance development team and will work closely with project managers, architecture teams and other stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to full development life cycle, including: requirements analysis, functional design, technical design, programming, testing, documentation, implementation, and on-going technical support.

• Contribute to projects utilizing Java and Big data landscape.

• Ability and willingness to learn newer tools and technologies in Big data arena and successfully deliver projects utilizing the same.

• Turn tech stack and application design into code on multiple development platforms

• Address a variety of responses to problems, questions, or situations by applying established criteria to directly influence development outcomes. In doing so, use the right technology to solve technical challenges required to deliver small scale features and functions and / or supporting aspects of a larger program efforts.

• Responsible for applications systems analysis and programming activities that may include assisting with feasibility studies, time and cost estimates and implementation of new or revised applications systems and programs.

• Accountable for development, design, construction, testing and implementation and write secure, stable, testable and maintainable code.

• Expected to operate with autonomy, while some oversight and direction may be required.

• Expected to provide sound understanding of application development concepts and principles and a basic knowledge of concepts and principles in other technology areas.

• On occasion, may need to consult with users, clients and other technology groups on issues and recommend programming solutions for customer exposed systems.

• Take the time to fully learn the functionality, architecture, dependencies, and runtime properties of the systems involved with your projects. This includes the business requirements, applications/services, runtime operations (including trouble management/associated support strategies), and maintenance.

• Understand the business context and the associated customer use cases.

• Understand the team’s technologies and are able to evaluate system designs and architecture as you participate in solution discussions, development and the creation of application / systems documentation.

• Build and maintain integrated project development schedules that account for internal / external dependencies, differing SDLC approaches, numerous constraints, and adequately factor in contingency for unplanned delays.

• Negotiate features and associated priority and help the team and their clients reach consensus.

• Verbal and written communication is clear and concise.

• Clearly articulate development and timeline dependencies.

• Have good working relationships with team members, manager, and peers.

• Improve team development related processes that accelerate delivery, drive innovation, lower costs, and improve quality.

• Ensure self and peers are actively seeking ways to objectively measure productivity. (i.e., SonarQube ). This will include a focus on automating code quality, code performance, unit testing, and build processing in the CI/CD pipeline.

Qualifications:

• Relevant experience in an Application Development role. Demonstrated execution capabilities.

• Strong analytical and quantitative skills; Data driven and results-oriented

• Experience with Core Java required (Spark a plus)

• Experience with SQL

• Experience working with Hadoop, Hive, Sqoop and other technologies in Cloudera's CDP distribution.

• Understanding of version control (git)

• Experience working as part of an agile team.

• Excellent written and oral communication skills

Technical Skills:

• Strong knowledge in Java

• Some knowledge in Hadoop, hive, SQL, Spark

• Understanding of Unix Shell Scripting

• CI/CD Pipeline

• Maven or Gradle experience

• Predictive analytics (desirable)

• PySpark (desirable)

• Trade Surveillance domain knowledge (desirable)

Education:

• Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience

What we’ll provide you:

By joining Citi, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), but also receive a competitive base salary (which is annually reviewed), and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits such as:

• 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)

• A discretional annual performance related bonus

• Private Medical Care & Life Insurance

• Employee Assistance Program

• Pension Plan

• Paid Parental Leave

• Special discounts for employees, family, and friends

• Access to an array of learning and development resources

Alongside these benefits Citi is committed to ensuring our workplace is where everyone feels comfortable coming to work as their whole self, every day. We want the best talent around the world to be energized to join us, motivated to stay and empowered to thrive.
 

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