Senior Java Developer

By Joining Citi, you will become part of a global organisation whose mission is to serve as a trusted partner to our clients by responsibly providing financial services that enable growth and economic progress.

We are looking for a Senior Java developer to join our growing team in Citigroup Belfast NI. A successful applicant will be responsible for building out the firm’s strategic reference data platforms used by the Institutional Clients Group within Citi. They will take ownership of key projects and components and will be responsible for all phases of the SDLC including analysis and design, development, testing and deployment. As a senior developer, the candidate will be responsible for providing technical guidance to junior developers, including overseeing their deliverables, provide architectural guidance, enforce Citi best practices, and conduct code reviews. A potential candidate will need to understand system and enterprise architecture concepts and will be expected to understand how all components fit together and impact one another. They will work with a global and diverse team of peers as well as liaise closely with Business Analyst, Production Support, and Infrastructure teams. 

Required skills: 

• Experience with the following technologies: 

• Java (Core, JDBC, Collections, I/O), Spring Boot; 

• Exposure to SQL/PL-SQL on Oracle DB 

• REST web services 

• Unix commands and Korn shell scripting; 

• Familiarity with standard data structures and algorithms; 

• Logical thinking, strong analytical and problem solving skills; innovative and solutions oriented 

• Effective time management skills to manage multiple priorities 

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills 

• Ability to work under pressure and manage deadlines or unexpected changes in expectations or requirements 

• Substantial application development experience  

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Engineering 

Responsibilities: 

• Deliver assigned development projects within agreed schedule, quality and scope expectations 

• Participate in all stages of the SDLC within an agile Scrum environment  

• Form partnership with technology vendors and gain deep understanding of products 

• Interact with senior management to define and drive architectural direction 

• Interact with PMO and translate reported problems/issues into JIRA items to implement 

• Enhance/Re-architect existing components to satisfy new requirements in terms of performance and scalability 

• Produce visual representations for Software designs 

• Provide level 3 (escalation) support for the application 

Preferred Skills and Experience: 

• Experience working with the Scrum methodology 

• Experience in developing with Redis 

• Experience designing and implementing microservices 

• Financial services technology experience preferably in reference data domain 

• Physical and logical data modeling 

• Experience using the following – JIRA, uDeploy, Sonarqube, TeamCity, Artifactory, Git (BitBucket), Openshift