Java Spark/Scala Engineer

Overview

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.

Team/Role Overview

The FX Data Analytics & AI Technology team, within Citi's FX Technology organization, seeks a highly motivated Full Stack Data Scientist / Data Engineer.

The FX Data Analytics & Gen AI Technology team provides data, analytics, and tools to Citi FX sales and trading globally and is responsible for defining and executing the overall data strategy for FX.

The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and implementing data-driven models, and engineering robust data and analytics pipelines, to unlock actionable insights from our vast amount of global FX data. The role will be instrumental in executing the overall data strategy for FX and will benefit from close interaction with a wide range of stakeholders across sales, trading, and technology. We are looking for a proactive individual with a practical and pragmatic attitude, ability to build consensus, and work both collaboratively and independently in a dynamic environment.

Overview / What will you do:

• As a Senior Software Engineer (Assistant Vice President), your mission is to help shape our team of innovators and technologists toward creating next-level solutions that improve the way our business is run.
• Closely work with FX desks in understanding the requirements and translating into simple and efficient design.
• Close interaction with Traders and Quants to understand new requirements for applications across the platform
• Design, Development, Testing of new features in the applications.
• Continual improvement of the software development lifecycle and quality of the product.
• Help deliver large scale projects through hands-on development and technical leadership.
• 3rd line support of the production system (dedicated 24h support teams handle 1st / 2nd line).
• Mentoring junior members of the team.

Key Skills and Experience

• 13 to 18 Years experience.
• In depth commercial development experience with dominant experience on Client and Server-side applications.

• Proven experience in writing and supporting high performing applications with expertise in Multithreading, Async communication, Reactive Extensions.
• Extensive hand-on experience in web technologies and development with experience in HTML 5, CSS, React, ES6+, Typescript and Backend using Java technologies.
• Experience with desktop containers including Chromium, Electron
• Experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment tools like Jenkins or TeamCity
• Self-starting individual with experience of working in a desk facing role.
• Exposure to Agile Methodologies like scrum, Kanban and techniques like TD

Bonus points for

• Exposure to profiling application
• Experience working with different database and messaging technologies such as SQL, KDB, MongoDB, Kafka, etc.
• Familiarity with data visualization and ideally development of analytical dashboards using Python and BI tools.
• Strong aptitude for analysis and problem solving

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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Job Family Group:

Technology

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Job Family:

Applications Development

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Time Type:

Full time

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