Senior Development Engineer - Rates Risk Technology (VP)

Citi; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 119,000 - 172,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days annual leave

Discretional annual bonus

Private Medical Care & Life Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Pension Plan

Paid Parental Leave

Special discounts for employees

Learning and development resources

Job summary

Citi is seeking a Senior Development Engineer – Rates Risk Technology (VP) based in London. You will lead a team of developers, own core components, and become a subject matter expert, driving back-end design, maintenance, and secure implementation across risk platforms.

The role requires extensive .NET/C# experience, leadership in financial IT, and the ability to liaison with front-office stakeholders while reducing tech debt and delivering features on time.

Qualifications

• Proven experience developing .NET applications in C# (some F#).
• Several years’ experience in financial IT environment.
• Leadership experience with people management.

Responsibilities

• Own a set of software components and lead a team of developers.
• Be SME for owned components and services.
• Improve, design and maintain back-end systems.
• Collaborate with leads to deliver new features and set delivery timelines.
• Reduce tech debt and use secure, current libraries.

Skills

C# .NET

Linux

Leadership

SDLC

Front-office liaison

People management

Communication

Risk technology

Tools

Jira

Bitbucket

GitHub

TeamCity

uDeploy

RabbitMQ

Kafka

Job description

Senior Development Engineer – Rates Risk Technology (VP)

Location(s)

London, England, United Kingdom

Job Type

Hybrid

Discover your future at Citi

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Job Overview

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 our Global Benefits page 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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