Senior Java Developer - Credit Risk Technology, Vice President

Citigroup Inc.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Citigroup Inc. in London seeks a Senior Java Developer to lead and implement advanced application systems in collaboration with the Technology team. You will guide the Derivatives Credit Risk Tech squad in building robust risk platforms and scalable services.

The role emphasizes design excellence, TDD, and modern DevOps practices, with opportunities for leadership and cross-border collaboration within Citi's global technology community.

Qualifications

• Core Java and OO design principles expected.
• Experience in capital markets a plus.
• Strong test-driven development and Agile practices.
• Understanding of Java internals (memory, class loading).
• Ability to build tooling for development/production teams.

Responsibilities

• Deliver advanced technology projects through full software lifecycle—from concept to deployment.
• Provide technical leadership for projects across a global team.
• Establish coding, testing, and productionization standards.
• Collaborate with engineers, business analysts, dev-ops, and support staff.
• Advance risk processing software by adopting new tech while following Citi guidelines.
• Coach mid-level/junior developers to raise engineering capabilities.
• Assess risk in decisions, ensure compliance with laws and Citi policies.

Skills

Java Core

Spring Framework

Distributed caching

Cloud & Containers

Databases

Linux scripting

DevOps tools

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

Git/Bitbucket

Hibernate

Oracle/MongoDB

Job description

The Senior Java Developer is a senior level position responsible for establishing and implementing new or revised application systems and programs in coordination with the Technology team. The overall objective of this role is to lead applications systems analysis and programming activities.

Team Background

The Derivatives Credit Risk Technology Team is responsible for delivering Counterparty Credit Risk Management software solutions to Citi's Risk organization which manages Citi's exposure to financial institutions, governments and corporates that trade with Citi. The team builds and maintains software used to compute metrics that help mitigate Citi's exposure to counterparty default. The solutions include consumption of trades, collateral, market data, counterparty and security reference data from over 50 sources, and the computation of optimal margin allocation for portfolios and trades, haircut for security and cash collateral, trade and collateral liquidity, collateral concentration levels and wrong way risk, amongst others that feed into the computation of Pre-Settlement Risk (PSE), Settlement Risk, Exposure at Default (EAD) and Risk Weighted Assets (RWA).

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver advanced technology projects as an individual contributor providing expertise in the full software development lifecycle, from concept and design, development, to testing and deployment. Opportunities available to expand responsibilities to a team leadership position based on leadership potential and performance.

• Provide technical leadership on projects implemented by the wider team of Software Engineers/Analyst Developers using advanced knowledge of application development. Ensure application design adheres to the appropriate architectural and design patterns in the systems.

• Utilize advanced knowledge of engineering process and develop standards for coding, testing, debugging and productionization.

• Collaborate effectively with a large global team of software engineers, business analysts, dev-ops and support staff to deliver software solutions for the business.

• Advance the derivatives exposure processing software infrastructure by continuously adopting new technologies where appropriate to solve business problems while adhering to Citi's architectural guidelines. Build bespoke solutions where necessary to perform risk and capital exposure impact analysis on data sets comprising millions of records.

• Serve as advisor or coach to mid-level/junior developers and analysts, helping build the overall engineering capabilities of the team.

• Appropriately assess risk when 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.

Ideal background

• Core Java experience developing robust, scalable, and maintainable applications applying Object Oriented Design principles.

• Experience working in the Capital Markets domain. Good understanding of Derivatives and Risk management is as significant advantage.

• Experience with Agile software development processes with a strong emphasis on test driven development.

• Understanding of Java internals such as class loading and memory management.

• Demonstrated capacity to build sophisticated tooling for development and production team use.

• Good to have

  • Experience re-engineering large monolithic applications to microservices.

  • Experience re-engineering complex franchise critical applications to new platforms.

  • Experience in Tableau or equivalent data analytics tool

Skills

Extensive experience working with most if not all the technologies listed below:

• Java Core with extensive hands-on experience with concurrent programming.

• Spring Framework including Core, Integration, Batch, JDBC, Hibernate.

• Distributed Caching frameworks such as Gemfire, Oracle Coherence, Redis or equivalent.

• Cloud computing technologies with practical experience working with containers, microservices and large datasets (Docker, Kubernetes).

• Databases - RDBMS preferably Oracle, NoSQL preferably MongoDB.

• Familiarity with Linux environment including scripting skills.

• SDLC/Dev Ops - Git/BitBucket, CI/CD pipeline frameworks such as Jenkins, SonarQube, JIRA, Any secure coding toolkits.

Education:

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

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

Technology

Applications Development

Full time

Most Relevant Skills

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Other Relevant Skills

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