Senior Analyst Developer, Senior Vice President in London

A Senior Analyst Developer with a combination of deep capital markets business knowledge and proven engineering experience building and managing large complex applications, to help implement Counterparty Credit Risk Technology solutions for Citi's internal risk management and finance regulatory functions.

Team Background

The Risk and Capital Technology Team is responsible for delivering Counterparty Credit Risk and Capital Management software solutions to Citi's Credit Risk and Finance organisations, which manage Citi's exposure to financial institutions, governments and corporates that trade with Citi, and their respective Regulatory Capital calculations. The team builds and maintains software used to compute various metrics that help mitigate Citi's exposure to counterparty default. The solutions include consumption of trades, collateral, market data, counterparty and security reference data from over 50 sources, and the computation of optimal margin allocation for portfolios and trades, haircut for security and cash collateral, trade and collateral liquidity, collateral concentration levels and wrong way risk, amongst others that feed into the computation of Potential Future Exposure (PFE), Settlement Risk, Exposure at Default (EAD) and Risk Weighted Assets (RWA).

Key Responsibilities

• Partner closely with Citi's Counterparty Credit Risk user community which includes Risk management, Sales and Trading, Capital Optimization and Finance Regulatory reporting groups to help shape Technology requirements and deliver robust capabilities for Risk and Capital functions.
• Provide strong hands‐on engineering leadership driving key architectural decisions and implementing foundational frameworks that can be leveraged by the exposure processing teams.
• Ensure solutions implemented by the team adhere to the appropriate architectural and design patterns in the systems.
• Utilize in-depth knowledge of technical and business domain concepts and procedures within own area and basic knowledge of other areas to resolve issues.
• Influence and negotiate with senior technical leaders from partner teams of software engineers, dev‐ops and production support staff to deliver robust software solutions.
• Appropriately assess risk when technical and business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citi, 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, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.

Business Skills

• Extensive experience working in a capital markets vertical demonstrating a solid understanding of the business or function.
• Solid understanding of Derivatives products across any asset class - Equities, Rates, FX, Credit or Commodities.
• Experience with Risk - either Front Office or Enterprise Risk including Counterparty Credit Risk or Market Risk is an advantage.

Technical Skills

• Java Core with extensive hands‐on experience with concurrent programming.
• Spring Framework including Core, Integration and Batch.
• Distributed Caching frameworks such as Gemfire, Oracle Co‐herence or equivalent.
• Cloud computing technologies with practical experience working with containers, microservices and large datasets (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Databases - RDBMS preferably Oracle, NoSQL preferably MongoDB.
• Familiarity with Linux environment including scripting skills.
• SDLC/Dev Ops - Git/BitBucket, CI/CD pipeline frameworks such as Jenkins, SonarQube, JIRA, any secure coding toolkits.

Qualifications / Education

Graduate in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) discipline. Master's degree an advantage.

Competencies

• Strong leadership.
• Ability to persuade and influence others through excellent communication and diplomacy skills.