Senior Java Developer, Assistant Vice President

Citi; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 133,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Citi is seeking a skilled Applications Developer to join its Technology team in a challenging role focused on building and expanding high-impact financial solutions. You will work on modern Java stacks including Spring and microservices, leveraging Kafka, Flink, and containerized deployments to deliver scalable, secure applications.

Responsibilities include feasibility studies, design, testing, and post-implementation security reviews while collaborating with stakeholders and mentoring junior

Qualifications

• 4+ years of relevant experience in Java (Java 17 or more), experience with Spring Boot, KAFKA, APACHE FLINK, GRPC, ECS, Mongo, REST API, JUNIT and SQL Basics required
• Java performance tuning
• Knowledge of CI/CD Pipeline, Familiarity with TeamCity, Udeploy, Jenkins, Harness, SonarQube, Snyk
• Experience with Design Patterns, Code Review, Coding standard, Unit testing with JNIT/Mockito
• Experience in systems analysis and programming of software applications
• Experience in managing and implementing successful projects
• Working knowledge of consulting/project management techniques/methods
• Ability to work under pressure and manage deadlines or unexpected changes in expectations or requirements

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.
• Follow agile methodology and address new function/enhancement/fixes for existing batches and new batches

Skills

Java 17+

Lombok

Spring Boot

Spring JPA

Spring Cloud Config

Spring JDBC

Spring WebFlux

Kafka

Apache Flink

Spring Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

Autosys

SQL

NoSQL MongoDB

Couchbase

Redis

Microservices Architecture

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience

Tools

OpenShift

Gradle

Splunk

Prometheus

TeamCity

Udeploy

Jenkins

Harness

SonarQube

Snyk

Job description

• Microservices Architecture

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. 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 organization 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.

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.
• Follow agile methodology and address new function/enhancement/fixes for existing batches and new batches

Qualifications:

• 4+ years of relevant experience in Java (Java 17 or more) , experience with Spring Boot, KAFKA, APACHE FLINK, GRPC, ECS, Mongo, REST API, JUNIT and SQL Basics required
• Java performance tuning
• Kubernetes, Openshift, Gradle, Splunk, Prometheus
• Knowledge of CI/CD Pipeline, Familiarity with TeamCity, Udeploy, Jenkins, Harness, SonarQube, Snyk
• Experience with Design Patterns, Code Review, Coding standard, Unit testing with JNIT/Mockito
• Experience in systems analysis and programming of software applications
• Experience in managing and implementing successful projects
• Working knowledge of consulting/project management techniques/methods
• Ability to work under pressure and manage deadlines or unexpected changes in expectations or requirements

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience

Required Skills:

• Java 17 or more
• Lombok (for reducing boilerplate code)
• Spring boot, Spring JPA, Spring Cloud Config, Spring JDBC, Spring WebFlux
• Kafka, Apache Flink, Spring Kafka
• Docker (for containerizing applications)
• Kubernetes (for orchestrating containerized workloads)
• Helm (for managing Kubernetes applications)
• Autosys
• Relational Databases (e.g., SQL)
• NoSQL Databases (e.g., MongoDB, Couchbase, Redis)
• Microservices Architecture
• CI/CC

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

Job Family Group:

Technology

Job Family:

Applications Development

Time Type:

Full time

Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:

$94,300.00 - $141,500.00

Most Relevant Skills

Please see the requirements listed above.

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