Backend Java Developer- Data Engineering (Hybrid)

Overview of the Role

Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides 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.

As a bank with a brain and a soul, Citi creates economic value that is systemically responsible and in our clients’ best interests. As a financial institution that touches every region of the world and every sector that shapes your daily life, our Enterprise Operations & Technology teams are charged with a mission that rivals any large tech company. Our technology solutions are the foundations of everything we do from keeping the bank safe, managing global resources, and providing the technical tools our workers need to be successful to designing our digital architecture and ensuring our platforms provide a first-class customer experience. We reimagine client and partner experiences to deliver excellence through secure, reliable, and efficient services.

Our commitment to diversity includes a workforce that represents the clients we serve from all walks of life, backgrounds, and origins. We foster an environment where the best people want to work. We value and demand respect for others, promote individuals based on merit, and ensure opportunities for personal development are widely available to all. Ideal candidates are innovators with well-rounded backgrounds who bring their authentic selves to work and complement our culture of delivering results with pride. If you are a problem solver who seeks passion in your work, come join us. We’ll enable growth and progress together.

Fixed Income Technology (FIT) is responsible for building and delivering technology used across the Fixed Income businesses. FIT is a global franchise serving corporations, governments, non-profits in a continuum of products within the rates, corporate credit and securitized markets. The software we build helps the business price, hedge, manage trades, market-make, finance and securitize. In an increasingly electronic environment, technology is critical to providing the business an edge to scale and outperform our competitors.  As a result, Citi is a top dealer and captures significant market share by providing consistent, tight and timely execution.

Our technology enables the business to execute 100s of thousands of trades every day & billions of notional across both spread and rates products.  Realtime platforms & data provide microsecond execution & sub second risk updates whilst also providing access to sophisticated data tools for complex & deep analysis of trading and risk.

We are seeking a talented and passionate Java Data Engineer to join our growing team. As a key member of our data engineering team, you will design, develop, and maintain high-performance data pipelines and applications using cutting-edge technologies.  You will work closely with the Lead Java Data Engineer and other team members to deliver innovative solutions that drive data-driven decision-making within the organization.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain robust and scalable data pipelines using Java and related technologies (e.g., Apache Spark, Apache Flink, Kafka).

• Build and optimize real-time and batch data processing applications to support low-latency requirements.

• Implement data integration solutions between various data sources and targets, including databases, APIs, and streaming platforms.

• Work with MPP platforms like Trino (Presto) and Snowflake to process and analyze large datasets.

• Contribute to the design and development of event-driven architectures.

• Write clean, well-documented, and testable code.

• Collaborate effectively with other engineers, product managers, and stakeholders throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC), adhering to Agile methodologies.

• Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies in the data engineering space.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

• Minimum 5 years of experience developing and deploying production-ready Java applications in a data engineering context. 

• Strong experience with core Java (version 11 or higher), SQL, and database APIs.

• Proven experience working with distributed stream processing frameworks like Apache Flink, Spark Streaming, or Kafka Streams.

• Experience with event-driven architectures and real-time data processing.

• Solid understanding of OOP concepts, multithreading, and thread pools.

• Familiarity with containerization technologies like Docker and deployment platforms like Openshift, ECS, or Kubernetes.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Nice to Have:

• Master’s degree in a relevant field.

• Contributions to open-source projects.

• Experience working in a cloud environment (AWS, GCP).

The Applications Development Senior 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.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct tasks related to feasibility studies, time and cost estimates, IT planning, risk technology, applications development, model development, and establish and implement new or revised applications systems and programs to meet specific business needs or user areas
• 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
• 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
• Consult with users/clients and other technology groups on issues, recommend advanced programming solutions, and install and assist customer exposure systems
• 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.
• Can exercise independence of judgement and autonomy.
• Acts as SME to senior stakeholders and /or other team members.
• Appropriately assess risk when business 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.

Qualifications:

• 5-8 years of relevant experience
• Experience in systems analysis and programming of software applications
• Experience in managing and implementing successful projects
• Working knowledge of consulting/project management techniques/methods
• Ability to work under pressure and manage deadlines or unexpected changes in expectations or requirements

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience

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

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Job Family Group:

Technology

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Job Family:

Applications Development

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Time Type:

Full time

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