Job Description

Summary Team/Function Overview Finance Technology Services is building a sophisticated next generation finance solution. The London team is working on creation of API-based finance platform using innovative technologies and techniques. The volume and variety of finance data involved in these Finance and Risk Functions results in one of most challenging and appropriate use cases for big data technologies and cloud platform usage. Role/Position Overview We are looking to bring in a Senior Abinitio / Bigdata Developer in the Global Accounting services team under Finance Technology, to help the implementation of operational journal platform and next generation Business Rules platform using latest innovative bigdata technologies. The Candidate is required to possess relevant design and development experience in the Tools and technologies on server side programming. Person should be a strong team player. Exposure to Finance OR Risk Functions on the Retail Banking products or Wholesale/Investment banking is preferred. This is a significant opportunity for an experienced developer with experience in modern Bigdata platforms to move into a role working with a variety of development teams, including close collaboration with an on-site finance team. To be successful in this role, you will need to have proven experience in development of solutions/platforms for Financial markets environment. It is expected that you will have superior technical knowledge of current programming languages, technologies and other leading edge development tools
Key Responsibilities

• Develop accounting application involving Abinitio/Spark/Hadoop/Hive/Kafka/MOM technologies
• Making complex technical and design decisions for Bigdata projects
• Designing and developing server side solution
• Utilize in-depth knowledge and skills across multiple Applications Development areas to provide technical oversight across systems and applications
• Requirement analysis including interaction with Business Users
• Help build continuous integration environment
• Perform Unit Testing, System Testing for all applications developed / enhancements and ensure that all critical and high-severity bugs are addressed.
• Engage in end to end system design and development processes
• As and when required, work on BAU development requests
• Ensure that application development and enhancement is in line with Citi's Coding Standards.
• Partners with multiple Technology teams to ensure appropriate integration of functions to meet goals; identifies and defines necessary system enhancements to deploy new products and process enhancements.
• Solves / works a variety of high impact, high-profile problems / projects with considerable business impact through in-depth evaluation of complex business processes, system processes and industry standards.
• Provides expertise in area and an advanced level of understanding of the principles of applications programming.
• Develops standards for coding, testing, debugging and implementation.
• Providing expertise in technical analysis and solving technical issues during project delivery.
• Responsible for applications systems analysis and programming activities.

Must Have Skills / Work Experience

• 5+ Yrs of Experience as senior level in Abinitiio / Bigdata Applications Development role
• Experience in developing Front-end screens on Big Data based systems
• Experience on starting the front-end buildout from scratch by coordinating across multiple business and technology groups
• Experience building complex single-page applications using Spark/Hadoop/Hive/Kafka/Oracle and modern MOM technologies
• Experienced with Linux/Unix platform
• Experience in RDMS and No SQL databases
• Experience in Service oriented architecture, and data standards like JSON
• Experience using ALM and CICD tools like Bitbucket, TFS, Jenkins, uDeploy, BMC RLM or related tools in an agile methodology.
• Experience in SCMs like GIT; and tools like JIRA
• Experienced with automated build and test processes
• Familiar with the financial services industry and/or regulatory environments
• Capable of assisting with the design of solutions and mentoring other developers within the same team
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication
• Ability to work as part of team and independently
• Interpersonal skills to interact with team members and clients
• Prior experience working with remote teams
• Candidate should be willing to work extended hours in order to interact with global partners/teams or as per project demand.
• Working experience on one of the BI Tool like, power BI, Tableau, MicroStrategy, QlikView

Good to have

• Common understanding of Java/Bigdata Solutions
• Exposure on Public Cloud - GCP/AWS/Azure

Education:

• A good academic background, with at least an Under-graduate degree, preferably in a Technical or Business related subject.

Development Value:

• Be a part of development team to develop, enhance, support and maintain solutions for GFTS applications.
• Participate in technical discussions/brainstorming sessions and define ideas and strategies for existing and future platforms
• Gain exposure to Wholesale, Retail business across data, risk and finance
• Work across diverse set of data platforms and have an opportunity to be part of re-architecture and re-platforming initiatives on modern UI and Big Data technologies

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