2 months ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead delivery of real-time and on-demand risk enhancements for the credit business in partnership with trading, market risk, quantitative, and technology teams.
- Own architecture, design, implementation, automated testing strategies, release execution, and ongoing production support across the development lifecycle.
- Align real-time and on-demand workflows with end-of-day risk strategy, including functional parity, reconciliation, and controlled cutover.
- Build out strategic risk-platform capabilities, including analytics, workflows, and risk-dataset integrations.
- Improve performance through optimized risk calculation strategies and Java platform tuning.
- Migrate compute workloads to AWS with a focus on scalability, throughput, resiliency, and cost efficiency.
- Collaborate with regional teams in a follow-the-sun model to improve delivery velocity and triage production incidents.
- Provide user updates, demonstrations, documentation, and education to support adoption and rollout.
- Lead root-cause analysis and drive long-term stability, monitoring, and observability improvements.
Requirements
- Strong experience with Core Java, J2EE, and the Spring Framework.
- Exposure to Python scripting and data analysis.
- Experience in capital markets front-office technology, including fixed-income products and front-office credit risk calculations.
- Experience building highly scalable and distributed applications using microservices, APIs, and container technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, or OpenShift.
- Strong expertise with messaging technologies such as Kafka, JMS, or gRPC.
- Proficiency in latency measurement, JVM tuning, and performance optimization of Java-based platforms.
- Experience with observability tools such as ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, Kiali, or Jaeger.
- Knowledge of relational databases, NoSQL databases, off-heap storage, and distributed caches.
- Hands-on knowledge of Linux or Unix.
- Experience working with senior quantitative professionals and technology managers.
- Bachelor’s or university degree, or equivalent experience; a master’s degree is preferred.
- Good verbal and written communication skills.
Benefits
- Hybrid working model with up to two days working from home per week.
- 27 days of annual leave plus bank holidays.
- Discretionary annual performance-related bonus.
- Private medical care and life insurance.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Pension plan.
- Paid parental leave.
- Employee, family, and friend discounts.
- Access to learning and development resources.
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About Citi
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