Application Architect - Risk Technology, Citi

Citi

Location:

United Kingdom, London

Category:

IT - Software Development

Contract Type:

Employment contract

Salary:

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Job Description:

The Credit Risk Technology Team is responsible for delivering Counterparty Credit Risk Management software solutions. These tools allow salespeople, traders, operations staff and risk officers to manage Citi’s exposure to financial institutions, governments and corporates that trade with Citi. The role involves contributing to architecture governance, designing and developing scalable solutions, mentoring junior team members, and collaborating with global teams.

Job Responsibility:

Participates in architecture governance bodies
Provide technical leadership to the team of Software Engineers/Analyst
Ensure application design adheres to the appropriate architectural and design patterns in the systems
Executes creative architecture solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions and break down technical problems
Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
Design & develop scalable micro-services to build a functional component that will support Risk Management functions
Partner with the product management team and other stakeholders in brainstorming sessions to identify solutions
Host sessions for design and code review at multiple levels of the organization
Improve our engineering standards and process to make the team more capable and efficient
Collaborate effectively with a large global team of software engineers, business analysts, dev-ops and support staff to deliver software solutions for the business
Lead the adoption of new technologies where appropriate to solve business problems while adhering to Citi’s architectural guidelines
Coach junior developers and analysts, helping build the overall engineering capabilities of the team
Appropriately assess risk when 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 behaviour, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency

Requirements:

Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability for data delivery architectures
Full-stack developer with 6+ years of experience in designing and developing robust, scalable, and maintainable applications applying Object Oriented Design principles
Advanced knowledge of architecture and one or more programming languages
Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
Advanced knowledge of one or more software, application, and architecture disciplines
Hands-on experience in REST-APIs, and Backend using Java/J2EE technologies
Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud) and deployment/packaging solutions such as Dockers/Kubernetes, OpenShift
Experience with Agile software development processes with a strong emphasis on test driven development
Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and experience in tools such as JIRA, Synk, SONAR, Checkmarx
Deep understanding of JVM internals such as class loading and memory management
Ability to evaluate design trade-offs and document choices effectively
Demonstrated capacity to build sophisticated tooling for development and production team use

Nice to have:

Spring Framework including Core, Integration, Batch, JDBC, JPA, Hibernate
Distributed Caching frameworks such as Oracle Coherence, Redis or equivalent
Cloud computing technologies with practical experience working with containers, microservices and large datasets (Docker, Kubernetes)
Databases - RDBMS preferably Oracle, NoSQL preferably MongoDB
Familiarity with Linux environment including scripting skills
SDLC/Dev Ops - Git/BitBucket, CI/CD pipeline frameworks such as Jenkins, SonarQube, JIRA, Any secure coding toolkits

Additional Information:

Job Posted:

March 22, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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