Java Developer

Citi; Chennai; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Citi is seeking an Applications Development Intermediate Programmer Analyst to contribute to the design, development and delivery of sophisticated finance desk applications. You will work with Java, Angular, and C#, on Linux and containerized environments, collaborating with global teams and stakeholders.

The role emphasizes ownership, troubleshooting, and participating in architecture and DevOps improvements within Citi's Markets Technology. Time type: Full time.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science / Information Technology or related field, or substantial practical software delivery experience.
• 4+ years of relevant Application Development experience.

Responsibilities

• Developing and maintaining a suite of applications as part of a global development team.
• Produce high-quality software emphasizing simplicity, maintainability and reuse.
• Document requirements and determine solutions in partnership with internal teams.
• Own all phases of the development process from analysis to implementation; provide user and operational support.
• Help define operating standards and processes and participate in key business initiatives.
• Coordinate global testing and schedule application rollouts; contribute to DevOps CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

Java

JDBC/JPA

RESTful services

Hibernate

Spring Boot

CI/CD

OpenShift Kubernetes

Kafka

Unix/Linux

AI tools usage

Education

Bachelor degree in CS/IT

Tools

Maven/Gradle

Jenkins

UDeploy

OpenShift

Job description

The Applications Development Intermediate Programmer Analyst is an intermediate level position responsible for participation in the establishment and implementation of new or revised application systems and programs in coordination with the Technology team. The overall objective of this role is to contribute to applications systems analysis and programming activities.

Finance Desk Technology is part Citi’s Markets Technology. The Team works closely with the Citi Global Finance Desk. The suite of Finance Desk applications provides position management, trade capture, electronic trading, market risk processing and reporting. This is supported by a mixed technology environment consisting of client-server applications, developed in Java, Angular and C#, with services running on Linux servers and Cloud Containers. This provides unique opportunity to work closely with the business stakeholders while building towards the strategic technology roadmap. We are looking for technically strong candidates who can work as team players and capable of taking ownership and leading the initiatives when needed.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing and maintaining suite of applications as a part of global development team.
• Production of high-quality software, emphasizing simplicity, maintainability and reuse, using standard development process.
• Understands business priorities, documents requirements and determines solutions in partnership with other internal teams.
• Accountable for all phases of development process—analysis, design, construction, testing and implementation; provides user and operational support on applications to business users.
• Ensures essential procedures are followed and helps to define operating standards and processes.
• Participating in key business initiatives involving multiple workstreams.
• Coordinate global testing and schedule application rollouts.
• Contribute towards improving the Dev Ops CI/CD Pipelines and Strategic Architecture.
• Work closely with partner technology teams and to collaborate effectively.
• Monitor and control all phases of development process and analysis, design, construction, testing, and implementation as well as provide user and operational support on applications to business users.
• Provide L3 support for production flows.
• Utilize in-depth specialty knowledge of applications development to analyze complex problems/issues, provide evaluation of business process, system process, and industry standards, and make evaluative judgement
• Recommend and develop security measures in post implementation analysis of business usage to ensure successful system design and functionality
• Ensure essential procedures are followed and help define operating standards and processes
• Serve as advisor or coach to new or lower level analysts
• Has the ability to operate with a limited level of direct supervision.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science / Information Technology or a related field, or substantial practical experience of software delivery.
• 4+ years of relevant experience in Application Development

Technical Skills Required:

• Strong core Java skills, JDBC/JPA, Restful web services
• Experience with frameworks like Hibernate, Junit, Spring Boot/Microservice-style application development is a plus.
• AI Tools & Platforms Usage: Hands‑on experience using AI tools and platforms to design, build, test, and enhance application features.
• Good experience with Relational Databases like Oracle, MSSQL.
• Experience with build tools like Maven/Gradle, Jenkins, UDeploy
• Experience with cloud based architectures on OpenShift Kubernetes is a plus
• Experience with Messaging and Caching frameworks such as Kafka and Gemfire/Ignite is a plus.
• Testing experience with distributed software applications.
• Experience with Unix or Linux.

Non-Technical Skills Required:

• Experience in working with distributed teams situated globally in different time-zones is a plus.
• Flexible and adaptive, team player.
• Excellent analytical, communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently.
• Ability to take ownership, drive strategy and well organized.

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

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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