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Finance Work Station Applications Development Sr Programmer Analyst - AVP

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Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, GBR
Senior level
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Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, GBR
Senior level
Develop and support complex, distributed Java applications for fixed-income trade processing. Responsibilities include requirements analysis, system design, coding, testing, implementation, operational support, risk assessment, security improvements, and stakeholder consultation. The role requires expertise in Java and Spring Boot, financial services—particularly securities finance transactions—and the ability to work independently while mentoring junior analysts.
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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.


Job Summary:

The Global Fixed Income Trade Processing (FiTP) Team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Java) with a proven track record of design and developing large, complex and distributed systems.


This role is within the FiTP team in Belfast, UK.  The successful individual will ideally have a strong knowledge of Fixed Income especially SFT products and experience in building software systems to handle the capture and processing of high volume of such trades.


In this fast paced environment you must be able to prioritize tasks, work within deadlines, taking a pragmatic and thoughtful approach, paying close attention to details. You will need to employ strong communication skills, necessary to effectively produce client solutions.

 

Key Responsibilities:

  • Conduct tasks related to feasibility studies, time and cost estimates, IT planning, risk technology, applications development, model development, and establish and implement new or revised applications systems and programs to meet specific business needs or user areas
  • Monitor and control all phases of development process and analysis, design, construction, testing, and implementation as well as provide user and operational support on applications to business users
  • Utilize in-depth specialty knowledge of applications development to analyze complex problems/issues, provide evaluation of business process, system process, and industry standards, and make evaluative judgement
  • Recommend and develop security measures in post implementation analysis of business usage to ensure successful system design and functionality
  • Consult with users/clients and other technology groups on issues, recommend advanced programming solutions, and install and assist customer exposure systems
  • Ensure essential procedures are followed and help define operating standards and processes
  • Serve as advisor or coach to new or lower level analysts
  • Has the ability to operate with a limited level of direct supervision.
  • Can exercise independence of judgement and autonomy.
  • Acts as SME to senior stakeholders and /or other team members.
  • 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.

 

Required Qualifications:

The senior developer will have the following characteristics:

  • Solid understanding and experience on OOP programming skills
  • Good experience on Java programming and frameworks like Spring Boot, etc.
  • Solid domian knowledge on financial industry especially on SFT
  • Proven background in developing large distributed systems to address complex business problems.
  • Ability to perform thorough requirement analysis and create comprehensive design for business features.
  • Keen to produce well-crafted software living up to highest quality standards.
  • Enthusiastic in learning and adopting industry-leading technologies into work.
  • Ability to work independently with ownership to estimation and timeline
  • Self-motivated and with determination to achieve goals
  • Good team working skills and ability to work in a virtual team environment.
  • Ability to think critically, identify improvement opportunities within application and team, come up with solutions and drive the execution.
  • Well-organized and able to prioritize multiple tasks to achieve maximum output.  
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Preferred Qualifications:

  • Exposure to the Finance industry or a background in financial applications is a significant advantage.

 

Educational Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.


What we’ll provide you

By joining Citi, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), but also receive a competitive base salary (which is annually reviewed), and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits such as:

  • 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
  • A discretional annual performance related bonus
  • Private Medical Care & Life Insurance
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Pension Plan
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Special discounts for employees, family, and friends
  • Access to an array of learning and development resources

Visit our About Us | Culture, Values & Benefits page to learn more.

 


Alongside these benefits Citi is committed to ensuring our workplace is where everyone feels comfortable coming to work as their whole self, every day. We want the best talent around the world to be energized to join us, motivated to stay and empowered to thrive.


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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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Most Relevant Skills Please see the requirements listed above.

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Other Relevant Skills For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

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Citi is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law.

 

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