Software Analyst - Citi

Citi is a world-leading global bank with 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.

Citi Belfast is one of the largest employers in Northern Ireland with a diverse and talented team of over 4000 people from over 68 different nationalities across our four Belfast offices. We are the only global investment bank operating in Northern Ireland. Every day, our local experts interact with global teams in over 100 countries developing and supporting next-generation technology solutions for the enterprise and delivering critical services to the bank and its customers.

Compliance Technology is building a sophisticated next generation surveillance solution on top of a distributed data platform. The Belfast team is the global centre for the creation of feature-based surveillance algorithms using cutting edge technologies and techniques.

This developer role is an individual contributor role within a fast paced technology delivery organization supporting regulatory compliance. This position is part of a Trade surveillance development team and will work closely with project managers, architecture teams and other stakeholders.

• Contribute to full development life cycle, including: requirements analysis, functional design, technical design, programming, testing, documentation, implementation, and on-going technical support.
• Contribute to projects utilizing Java and Big data landscape.
• Ability and willingness to learn newer tools and technologies in Big data arena and successfully deliver projects utilizing the same.
• Turn tech stack and application design into code on multiple development platforms.
• Address a variety of responses to problems, questions, or situations by applying established criteria to directly influence development outcomes.
• Responsible for applications systems analysis and programming activities that may include assisting with feasibility studies, time and cost estimates and implementation of new or revised applications systems and programs.
• Accountable for development, design, construction, testing and implementation and write secure, stable, testable and maintainable code.
• Expected to operate with autonomy, while some oversight and direction may be required.
• Expected to provide sound understanding of application development concepts and principles and a basic knowledge of concepts and principles in other technology areas.
• On occasion, may need to consult with users, clients and other technology groups on issues and recommend programming solutions for customer exposed systems.
• Take the time to fully learn the functionality, architecture, dependencies, and runtime properties of the systems involved with your projects.
• Understand the business context and the associated customer use cases.
• Build and maintain integrated project development schedules that account for internal / external dependencies, differing SDLC approaches, numerous constraints, and adequately factor in contingency for unplanned delays.
• Negotiate features and associated priority and help the team and their clients reach consensus.
• Verbal and written communication is clear and concise.
• Improve team development related processes that accelerate delivery, drive innovation, lower costs, and improve quality.
• Ensure self and peers are actively seeking ways to objectively measure productivity.

• Relevant experience in an Application Development role.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills; Data driven and results-oriented.
• Experience with Core Java required (Spark a plus).
• Experience with SQL.
• Experience working with Hadoop, Hive, Sqoop and other technologies in Cloudera's CDP distribution.
• Understanding of version control (git).
• Experience working as part of an agile team.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

• Strong knowledge in Java.
• Some knowledge in Hadoop, hive, SQL, Spark.
• Understanding of Unix Shell Scripting.
• CI/CD Pipeline.
• Maven or Gradle experience.
• Predictive analytics (desirable).
• PySpark (desirable).
• Trade Surveillance domain knowledge (desirable).

• Bachelor's/University degree or equivalent experience.

• 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.

Alongside these benefits Citi is committed to ensuring our workplace is where everyone feels comfortable coming to work as their whole self, every day.