Junior Java Developer

Job Purpose:

Citigroup Markets & Banking’s FXLM team is a high-intensity product development unit that defines, designs and develops critical front-office/back-office applications for the Global FX & Local Markets business.

The Developer will take up the responsibility of development work for projects within the space of front-office/back-office Foreign Exchange (FX), Money Markets (MM), Derivatives, Fixed Incomes (FI) applications. 
 

Job Background/context:

This is a challenging and exciting opportunity to work on complex and challenging Front Office risk & Backoffice Settlement and Payment projects within Markets Technology, cooperating with multiple teams to develop this franchise-critical strategic cross-business platform.

Key Responsibilities:

• Possesses excellent understanding of programming languages;
• Responsible for applications systems analysis and programming activities.
• May be responsible for feasibility studies, implementation of new or revised applications systems and programs.
• Responsible for applications development, Analytic Model Development and Application support activities to meet specific business needs of user areas and test systems to ensure integrity.
• Utilizes good understanding of apps development procedures and concepts and basic knowledge of other technical areas to identify and define necessary system enhancements; uses script tools.
• Conducts testing and debugging.
• Intra team communication skills required to get the task done
•  Capable of communicating ideas and information in a concise and logical manner
   

Development Value:

This position gives an excellent opportunity for the selected candidate to play a significant role in an exciting and critical business within Citi. As a member of our highly acclaimed Technology team, this role provides the opportunity to participate in and shape the expansion and pre-eminence of our Business working together with our team of highly skilled technologists. The opportunity to work in back-office application space spanning multiple asset classes in a high-velocity & high availability environment is, of itself, an exciting proposition.  We believe it is even more special to do this as part of Citi, a premier financial institution that is one of the biggest and best in the market, and as a part of our team that has a high visibility for our work both inside our larger organisation as well as in the global Capital Markets world.  The position will enable you to leverage Citi’s incomparable geographical reach, product richness, and engineering expertise and to translate these into a successful and top-of-the-class product offering for our customers.

Person Specification
 

Knowledge/Experience:

• Excellent analytic & problem solving skills
• Excellent knowledge in Java, J2EE
• Experience in Messaging, failover
• Experience in delivering high quality applications
• Familiar with all phases of the systems lifecycle, from analysis, design and development through to support
• Experience in  multi-tier Java/J2EE applications
• Knowledge of the FX/MM/FI market and products is very desirable.

Skills:

• Strong Programming Skills

Technical

Essential:

• Excellent knowledge in Java (JDK 1.7 or more) Excellent knowledge in JMS, JSP, Servlets, Struts 2.0 and SQL/PLSQL Basics
• Java performance tuning, Threads, Collections
• Knowledge of any application server
• Writing and executing automated unit tests using TestNG or JUnit
• Service oriented , HA architecture
• HTML5, CSS, JavaScript

Desirable

• Messaging middleware’s
• Spring, SWING, JavaFX
• Oracle
• JBoss/Weblogic Application server
• Tools – GIT, Teamcity, uDeploy
• Code Quality and Analysis tools
• Distributed Caching technologies
• AngularJS, NodeJS

Beneficial:                    

• IBM MQ/TIBCO EMS

Qualifications:

• Graduation/Post Graduation qualifications in Computer Engineering (preferable) or any equivalent stream with a very good academic record throughout. 

• A high degree of Analytical ability and Quantitative skills is desirable

Competencies:

• Innovative and Positive ‘Can Do’ attitude
• Ability to make effective judgements on available data / knowledge
• Planning and Organising – Ability to identify the steps to be taken to achieve objectives
• Excellent pressure management skills required
• Accountability –self start on goals and achieve targets
• Strong team orientation and commitment to overall team success
• willing to go above and beyond to ensure team success

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