Full Stack Java Developer

Citigroup Inc.; Belfast; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A global financial services company in Belfast seeks an experienced Apps Developer to work on digital applications. You will engage in application design, coding, and support while enjoying competitive benefits like annual leave, private medical care, and a hybrid working model. This is an opportunity to thrive in a dynamic environment while collaborating with a diverse team.

Benefits

27 days annual leave

Private Medical Care

Life Insurance

Pension Plan

Paid Parental Leave

Special discounts for employees

Qualifications

• 2-5 years in an Apps Development role.
• Experience in running high traffic, distributed, cloud-based services.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Turn tech stack and application design into code on multiple development platforms.
• Engage in digital applications development and support activities.
• Build and maintain integrated project development schedules.

Skills

Java

Spring Framework

Oracle

SQL

Analytical skills

Quantitative skills

Education

Bachelor’s/University degree

Job description

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.

Citi Belfast is one of the largest employers in Northern Ireland with a diverse and talented team of over 4000 people from over 68 different nationalities across our four Belfast offices. We are the only global investment bank operating in Northern Ireland. Every day, our local experts interact with global teams in over 100 countries developing and supporting next-generation technology solutions for the enterprise and delivering critical services to the bank and its customers, to make sure we are a stronger and safer organization for our clients. You will have a truly global reach, which will provide you with new experiences and development opportunities right here in Belfast’s iconic Titanic Quarter.

Responsibilities

• Turn tech stack and application design into code on multiple development platforms (e.g. iOS, Android, web/Angular, services).
• Address a variety of responses to problems, questions, or situations by applying established criteria to directly influence development outcomes. Use the right technology to solve technical challenges required to deliver small scale features and functions and / or supporting aspects of a larger program efforts.
• Responsible for applications systems analysis and programming activities that may include assisting with feasibility studies, time and cost estimates and implementation of new or revised applications systems and programs.
• Accountable for development, design, construction, testing and implementation and write secure, stable, testable and maintainable code.
• Operate with autonomy, while some oversight and direction may be required.
• Engage in digital applications development, risk technology, Middleware, Mainframe applications, Non Mainframe applications, Analytic Model Development and Application support activities to meet specific business needs of user areas and to test systems to ensure integrity of deliverables.
• Provide sound understanding of application development concepts and principles and a basic knowledge of concepts and principles in other technology areas.
• On occasion, consult with users, clients and other technology groups on issues and recommend programming solutions for customer exposed systems.
• Take the time to fully learn the functionality, architecture, dependencies, and runtime properties of the systems involved with projects, including business requirements, applications/services, runtime operations (troubleshooting and support strategies), and maintenance.
• Understand the business context and the associated customer use cases.
• Understand the team’s technologies and evaluate system designs and architecture as you participate in solution discussions, development and the creation of documentation.
• Drive clarity into technical implementation by leading system build and performance discussions, providing technical context to team members, and representing the team’s systems to others inside and outside Digital.
• Occasionally need guidance from peers and/or manager as the team’s operating procedures and technology are well defined.
• Build and maintain integrated project development schedules accounting for internal/external dependencies, differing SDLC approaches, constraints, and contingency for unplanned delays.
• Negotiate features and priorities and help the team and their customers reach consensus.
• Communicate verbally and in writing in a clear and concise manner, articulating development and timeline dependencies.
• Maintain good working relationships with team members, manager, and peers.
• Improve team development-related processes to accelerate delivery, drive innovation, lower costs, and improve quality.
• Actively seek ways to measure productivity and automate code quality, performance, unit testing, and build processing in the CI/CD pipeline (RTC, Jenkins, RLM).
• Assess risk when making business decisions, uphold the firm’s reputation, and drive compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations; escalate, manage and report control issues with transparency.

Qualifications

• 2-5 years in an Apps Development role. Demonstrated execution capabilities.
• Experience with Java, Spring Framework, Oracle/SQL.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills; data-driven and results-oriented.
• Experience in running high traffic, distributed, cloud-based services.
• Experience in affecting large culture change.
• Experience leading infrastructure programs.
• Skilled at working with third party service providers.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Education

• Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience

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 discretionary 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

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: Digital Software Engineering

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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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