Senior Full Stack Java Developer | London, UK

Citi; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a Senior Java Data Engineer to join their FX Data Analytics & AI Technology team. This role involves developing and implementing data-driven models and engineering robust data pipelines to unlock insights from global FX data. You'll collaborate closely with various stakeholders, ensuring adherence to best practices in data management and governance. The company offers a hybrid working model, competitive salary, and a range of benefits, fostering an inclusive environment where talent can thrive and grow. Join a dynamic team and contribute to shaping the future of financial technology.

Benefits

27 days annual leave

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 learning and development resources

Qualifications

• Proven experience in software engineering and development.
• Hands-on experience in Java, Spark, and Scala.
• Strong understanding of SQL and databases.

Responsibilities

• Engineer data and analytics pipelines using modern technologies.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to deliver impactful data-driven solutions.
• Mentor junior members of the team.

Skills

Java

Spark

Scala

SQL

Kafka

Data virtualization

Production management

Education

Master's degree in a STEM discipline

Tools

Spark

Kafka

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.

What We do / The Team
The FX Data Analytics & AI Technology team, within Citi's FX Technology organization, seeks a highly motivated Senior Java Data Engineer.

The FX Data Analytics & Gen AI Technology team provides data, analytics, and tools to Citi FX sales and trading globally and is responsible for defining and executing the overall data strategy for FX.
The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and implementing data-driven models, and engineering robust data and analytics pipelines, to unlock actionable insights from our vast amount of global FX data. The role will be instrumental in executing the overall data strategy for FX and will benefit from close interaction with a wide range of stakeholders across sales, trading, and technology. We are looking for a proactive individual with a practical and pragmatic attitude, ability to build consensus, and work both collaboratively and independently in a dynamic environment.

Role Overview/What will you do:

• As a Senior Java Engineer, your mission is to help shape our team of innovators and technologists toward creating next-level solutions that improve the way our business is run.
• Engineer data and analytics pipelines using modern, cloud-native technologies and CI/CD workflows, focusing on consolidation, automation, and scalability.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across sales and trading to understand data needs, translate them into impactful data-driven solutions, and deliver these in partnership with technology.
• Develop and integrate functionality to ensure adherence with best-practices in terms of data management, need-to-know (NTK), and data governance.
• Contribute to shaping and executing the overall data strategy for FX in collaboration with the existing team and senior stakeholders.
• Closely work with FX desks in understanding the requirements and translating into simple and efficient design.
• Close interaction with Traders and Quants to understand new requirements for applications across the platform
• Design, Development, Testing of new features in the applications.
• Continual improvement of the software development lifecycle and quality of the product.
• Help deliver large scale projects through hands-on development and technical leadership.
• 3rd line support of the production system (dedicated 24h support teams handle 1st / 2nd line).
• Mentoring junior members of the team.

Key Skills and Experience required

• Master's degree or above (or equivalent education) in a STEM discipline.
• Proven experience in software engineering and development, and a strong understanding of computer systems and how they operate.
• Hands on Experience in Java , Spark , Scala ( or Java)
• Production scale hands-on Experience to write Data pipelines using Spark / any other distributed real time / batch processing.
• Strong skill set in SQL / Databases
• Strong understanding of Messaging tech like Kafka, Solace , MQ etc.
• Writing production scale applications to use the Caching technologies.
• Understanding of Data virtualization
• Production management (L3 support) experience

Any Beneficial / Nice to have skills and experience:

• Understanding of Trino / Starburst / Presto
• KDB knowledge

What we'll provide you
By joining Citi London, 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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