Assistant Vice President, Applications Development Senior Programmer Analyst, Technology

Location: Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, Japan

Employment Type: Regular

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.
We are looking for talented and passionate web developers to continue to evolve our next-generation trading application. The role requires a detailed understanding of software design/best practices along with a strong technical ability. 

Fixed Income Technology is responsible for delivering state of the art technology solutions to the Fixed Income business. Initiatives includes deliveries across sales, risk, pricing, algorithmic trading, execution, trade processing, and much more.

Citi is one of the top global dealers on the street in Fixed Income, and contributing to that success is a great opportunity to develop cutting edge technical skills with strong career opportunities.

The Fixed Income business has set out an ambitious growth plan, and strong technical development is critical to achieving our goals and enhancing our leading position in the financial market.

In this role, you’re expected to:

• Designing and developing the flagship “Trader Desktop” platform
• Working directly with end users on requirements analysis and capture
• Troubleshooting challenging performance and scalability issues
• Liaising with the global business, support, and development teams
• Assisting in third line support during core trading hours and Production issues as needed
• Enhancing our automated testing efforts and optimizing our UAT process
• 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.

As a successful candidate, you’d ideally have the following skills and exposure:

• 5+ years of experience in developing large-scale enterprise trading applications in the Capital Markets space
• Experience using Angular 14.0+, TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3, SAAS/LESS
• Experience with Reactive programming paradigms (RxJS and NgRx)
• Experience with writing unit tests for Angular/Typescript
• Experience with consuming JSON based data from REST services
• Experience with build pipelines (TeamCity, Jenkins, etc.) and cloud native build/hosting pipelines (OpenShift, Harness, Tekton)

Good to Have knowledge of -

• Experience with C#/.NET/WPF and object-oriented programming
• Experience with writing unit tests for C#/.NET (NUnit/MSTest/SpecFlow etc.)
• Experience with Rx extensions (.NET)
• Experience with consuming real-time streaming data through web sockets
• Experience with application deployments utilizing ES modules, Webpack, and Nx
• Knowledge of any Government Bonds, Interest Rates or Futures financial products (e.g. EuroGovies/Swaps).

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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