Senior Development Engineer – Rates Risk Technology (VP)

Citigroup Inc.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days annual leave

Discretionary annual bonus

Private Medical Care & Life Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Pension Plan

Paid Parental Leave

Employee discounts

Learning and development resources

Job summary

Citigroup Inc. in London is seeking a Senior Development Engineer to lead Rates Risk Technology initiatives. You will own and guide backend components, serve as SME for critical systems, and drive delivery with front-office stakeholders across multiple asset classes.

The role requires extensive .NET development in a financial IT environment, leadership experience, and strong collaboration across teams. Citi offers hybrid work, a competitive base salary, and a broad benefits package.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in Applications Development within the Rates domain and/or Risk management.
• Proven knowledge of SDLC and Trade lifecycle.
• Proficiency in C# .NET, with a good understanding of IT fundamentals.
• Leadership experience with people management.
• Experience with messaging and event streaming technologies (RabbitMQ, Kafka).
• Experience with .NET Core and Linux environments.

Responsibilities

• Own a set of software components and lead a team of experienced developers.
• Become SME for owned components and services.
• Improve, design and maintain back-end software systems.
• Liaise with other team leads to deliver new features.
• Advise planning team on delivery timelines for business requests.
• Reduce tech debt and use latest secure components and libraries.

Skills

C# .NET

Leadership

SDLC

Front-office liaison

People management

Communication

Industry standards

Leadership in delivery

Linux

Messaging technologies

Tools

RabbitMQ

Kafka

Jira

Bitbucket

GitHub

TeamCity

uDeploy

MSSQL

MongoDB

S3

KDB

Linux

Job description

Senior Development Engineer – Rates Risk Technology (VP)

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.

What We do / The Team

Rates Technology is looking to hire an experienced Engineer based in London. This is a global team with a client base spanning 70+ countries. This role will be within the Risk Technology team.

Risk Technology is focused on delivering solutions to the Rates Trading desks. This team develops and maintains a complete suite of Risk technology solutions, for both the Rates and FX (including Derivatives) Businesses.

Role Overview/What will you do:

• This role will provide a unique opportunity to gain exposure to different asset classes in a Tier 1 investment bank.
• Responsible for ownership of set of software components
• Working primarily as lead of a team of experienced developers
• Become SME (Subject Matter Expert) for components and services that you own
• Improving, designing, maintaining back-end software systems
• Liaising with other team leads and functional component owners to deliver new features
• Working with planning team to advise delivery timelines for business requests
• Reduce tech debt, ensuring use of latest and most secure components and libraries

Key Skills and Experience required –

• Extensive experience in Applications Development role within the Rates domain and/or Risk management
• Proven knowledge of SDLC and Trade lifecycle
• Proficiency in C# .net, with a good understanding of IT fundamentals
• Demonstrated capability to develop and maintain effective work relationships with front-office stakeholders
• Proven people management experience
• Demonstrated leadership skills
• Knowledge of industry practices and standards
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication

Essential

• Proven experience developing .NET applications in C# (some F#)
• Several years’ experience working in financial IT environment
• Several years in leadership role with people management experience
• Experience with messaging and event streaming technologies (RabbitMQ, TIBCO EMS, Kafka)
• Experience with .NET Core and Linux environments

Desirable

• Experience managing and planning feature deliveries in Sprints (Scrum)
• Experience with database and object storage integration (MSSQL, MongoDB, S3, KDB)
• Experience with task management and resource allocation tools (Jira)
• Experience with code management and tracking tools (Bitbucket, GitHub)
• Experience with build/deployment pipelines (TeamCity, uDeploy)

Beneficial

• Awareness of test-driven-development and importance of test environments (QA/UAT)
• Awareness of scheduling and monitoring systems

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 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.

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Job Family Group:

Technology

Job Family:

Applications Development

Time Type:

Full time

Most Relevant Skills

Please see the requirements listed above.

Other Relevant Skills

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

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