The Applications Development Senior Manager is a senior management level position responsible for accomplishing results through the management of a team or department in an effort to establish and implement new or revised application systems and programs in coordination with the Technology team. The overall objective of this role is to drive applications systems analysis and programming activities.
Responsibilities:
- Manage one or more Applications Development teams in an effort to accomplish established goals as well as conduct personnel duties for team (e.g. performance evaluations, hiring and disciplinary actions)
- Utilize in-depth knowledge and skills across multiple Applications Development areas to provide technical oversight across systems and applications
- Review and analyze proposed technical solutions for projects
- Contribute to formulation of strategies for applications development and other functional areas
- Develop comprehensive knowledge of how areas of business integrate to accomplish business goals
- Provide evaluative judgment based on analysis of factual data in complicated and unique situations
- Impact the Applications Development area through monitoring delivery of end results, participate in budget management, and handling day-to-day staff management issues, including resource management and allocation of work within the team/project
- Ensure essential procedures are followed and contribute to defining standards negotiating with external parties when necessary
- Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.
Qualifications:
- 6-10 years of relevant experience in the Financial Service industry
- Experience as Applications Development Manager
- Experience as senior level in an Applications Development role
- Stakeholder and people management experience
- Demonstrated leadership skills
- Proven project management skills
- Basic knowledge of industry practices and standards
- Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
- Master’s degree preferred
This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.
About Citi
Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides 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. Our core activities are safeguarding assets, lending money, making payments and accessing the capital markets on behalf of our clients.
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Job Purpose:
The Fixed Income E-Trading technology team in Pune is part of a global team responsible for the platform that has enabled Citi’s Rates business to be one of the best on the street. We are seeking a Lead developer to continue to build and enhance the platform that autonomously prices RFQs and trades with clients across external and internal venues, e.g. Bloomberg and Tradeweb.
A successful candidate will solve interesting technical challenges whilst developing solutions that have a measurable and visible revenue impact. This is a rewarding and exciting opportunity to work directly with one of the most forward thinking businesses and successful Rates E-Trading platforms.
Non-Technical Skills:
- Experience in managing and leading development teams in a fast-paced front office capital markets trading environment
- Ability to work in a global distributed team environment and build a high performing team.
- Knowledge of fixed income financial products in either Rates or Spread Products domain - ideally both
- Ability to multi-task effectively and to adjust priorities quickly as circumstances dictate.
- Ability to manage challenging stakeholders and deliver quality results in the required timeframe.
- Demonstrated technical leadership and project organizational skills
- Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Self-motivated with the determination to achieve his/her goals
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and develop high performance, low-latency trading applications that deliver to client expectations as well as improve stability and scalability of the trading platform.
- Partner with multiple technology, business/quant and external market teams to capture requirements and deliver timely solutions for new trading functionality and market upgrades.
- Coordinate testing of new functionality including business/quant signoff.
- Liaise with global support teams to manage application upgrades and provide third-line support for existing trading platform.
- Develop common, reusable components and services that execute against Citi’s technical strategy and drive future improvements.
- Partner with business/quant teams to evolve architecture roadmap and drive future direction of the trading platform.
- Participate in agile/scrum development lifecycle and drive engineering excellence.
Qualifications:
Knowledge/Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree with a relevant major (Computer Science, Information Technology, Mathematics, Engineering, or similar)
- Experience in design and development of high performance, low-latency, multi-threaded applications.
- Extensive hands-on development experience in Java.
- Demonstrated ability to learn new business concepts and technologies.
Technical:
- Solid understanding of software development fundamentals including data structures, design patterns and object-orientated programming.
- Proficiency in core Java (8+ years of experience) with demonstrable success in developing multi-threaded applications.
- Proven ability to develop clean, testable code.
- Understanding of relational database concepts and knowledge in SQL.
- Experience with Jira, Git/Bitbucket, Gradle and CI/CD tools, e.g. TeamCity and UrbanCode Deploy.
- Experience with Linux/Unix.
- Knowledge on cloud technologies desirable, e.g. Artifactory, Docker and OpenShift.
- Knowledge of fixed income products, customer and broker market platforms and trading protocols desirable.
Soft Skills:
- Excellent communication skills (there is a requirement to be business/quant facing).
- Strong passion for technology, especially Java, with a keen interest in driving adoption of new technologies and tools.
- Self-motivated individual and with ability to manage own workslate.
- Excellent collaborative skills; ability to work with others and contribute to global projects.
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
- Ability to mentor team members.
- Ability to work in a fast-pace environment; flexible and able to deliver results in the required timeframe
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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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