Fixed Income & SFT Tech Delivery Lead (VP)

Citigroup Inc.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Private Medical Care & Life Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Pension Plan

Paid Parental Leave

Job summary

Citi's Tech team in the UK is seeking a senior Applications Developer to help redefine global finance. You will contribute to low-latency, high‑impact systems used across 180+ countries, and work on cloud-native microservices powering real-time trade processing.

You will lead or guide developers, ensure reliability and performance, and collaborate with business teams to shape the architecture roadmap. This hybrid role offers mentorship, growth opportunities, and a competitive base salary.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience in the Financial Service industry.
• Understanding of Fixed Income products and Security Financing Transactions.
• Senior developer with Java/Spring experience and microservice development.
• Extensive experience in building cloud-based services.
• Experience with high-volume microservices architectures.
• Clear, concise written and verbal communication.
• Engineering best practices: design patterns, code reviews, unit testing.

Responsibilities

• Lead or guide developers in an Applications Development team and conduct performance evaluations.
• Provide technical oversight across systems and applications.
• Develop knowledge of how business areas integrate to achieve goals.
• Provide evaluative judgment based on data in complex situations.
• Develop reusable components and services using Citi practices.
• Create high-performance, low-latency applications.
• Ensure reliability, scalability, and performance of components.
• Collaborate with technical and business teams to identify opportunities.

Skills

Microservices architecture

Java / Spring stack

Cloud-based services

High performance systems

Strong communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Mockito

JUnit

JVM internals

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Discover your future at Citi

Working at Citi is far more than just a job. A career with us means joining a team of more than 230,000 dedicated people from around the globe. At Citi, you’ll have the opportunity to grow your career, give back to your community and make a real impact.

Job Overview

Engineer the future of global finance. At Citi, our Tech team doesn’t just support finance – we are helping to redefine it. Every day, $5 trillion crosses through our network. We do business in 180+ countries operating at a scale few can match. From deploying advanced AI to helping shape global markets, we build systems that matter. Look to join a team where your work helps influence economies, your ideas can drive innovation and outcomes, and your growth is backed by mentorship, continuous learning and flexibility with potential hybrid work opportunities. Help solve real-world challenges that touch millions and get the opportunity to build the future of finance with Citi Tech.

Job Purpose

Citi is the Market Maker and a global leader in all major Fixed Income markets in across the globe. Unified Fix Income Trade Processing(FITP) is Citi's primary Fixed Income trading platform processing Derivatives, Cash, Exotics and SFT products with 3800+ Trading, Sales, Middle Office users globally. Unified FITP, built on state of the art technology stack processes around 200,000 transactions daily and provides real time position , risk management capabilities. It has connectivity to 100+ electronic trading venues and 20+ regulatory bodies globally.

Responsibilities

• Lead or guide developers in an Application Development team 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
• 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
• Develop common, reusable components and services utilizing Citi's best practices
• Create high performance, low latency applications leveraging existing Citi framework
• Ensure strong reliability, scalability and performance of our components
• Liaise with technical and business teams to collaborate on identifying opportunities and solutions
• Drive architecture and execute on our technical strategy
• Partner with business to continue to evolve our architecture roadmap beyond near term objectives
• 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

• Strong proven relevant commercial experience in the Financial Service industry
• Solid understanding on financial products like Fixed Income securities and expertise on Security Financing Transactions.
• Experience as senior developer and tech expert in an Applications Development team with good understanding of major programming languages/frameworks like Java / Spring stack for microservice development and a demonstrable understanding of Java internals (JIT, advanced debugging scenarios, JVM memory management etc.)
• Extensive experience in building applications delivered on cloud-based services.
• Experience in micro services architecture based application development for high volume.
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication
• Demonstrable understanding and experience of engineering best practices: design patterns, coding standard, code review, unit testing via Mockito and Junit
• Ability to develop strong relationships with others, effectively influencing peers and business partners.
• Self-motivated and organized, with determination to achieve goals; ability to work autonomously when required.
• Proven project management skills

Education

• Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience
• Master's degree preferred

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 ourGlobal Benefitspage 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.

Job Family Group:

Technology

Job Family:

Applications Development

Time Type:

Full time

Most Relevant Skills

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Other Relevant Skills

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