Core Java Backend Lead - Vice President

Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India

Employment Type: Regular

About Fixed Income Technology at Citi

Fixed Income Technology at Citi is dedicated to delivering state-of-the-art technology solutions for the Global Fixed Income (FI) business. Our initiatives span sales, risk, pricing, algorithmic trading, execution, and trade processing. As one of the top global dealers in Fixed Income, Citi offers a unique opportunity to develop cutting-edge technical skills and build a strong career. The FI business is pursuing an ambitious growth plan, and robust technical development is crucial to achieving our goals and maintaining our leadership in the financial market.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop front office eTrading applications for the trading business.
• Lead and mentor development team members, including conducting thorough PR reviews and providing expert technical advice and guidance.
• Collaborate directly with Traders, Sales, and Quants to define the future direction of the platform.
• Leverage creativity and innovation to enhance the platform's technical capabilities, ensuring stability, flexibility, and maintainability.
• Drive engineering standards and best practices across the team.
• Enhance automated testing efforts and optimize the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) process.
• Serve as an advisor or coach to new or junior analysts, fostering their professional growth.
• Troubleshoot challenging performance and scalability issues, providing leadership in problem resolution.
• Engage with business users in APAC and across Europe (e.g., London, Paris, Milan) to understand requirements and deliver solutions.
• Actively contribute to and lead global critical initiatives, collaborating with global teams to drive strategic technical projects.
• Partner with other regional leads to continuously improve system quality, reliability, and performance across the global platform.
• Utilize deep Fixed Income product knowledge to accurately understand business requirements and implement solutions with high quality and effectiveness.
• Provide third-line support during core trading hours.
• Act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) to senior stakeholders and team members.
• Work effectively with cross-functional teams, including Project Managers (PM), Business Analysts (BA), Quality Assurance (QA), and business stakeholders, to ensure efficient project execution and successful delivery.
• Liaise with global business, product, support, and development teams on various projects.

What You'll Gain

• Build a strong professional profile within a high-performance global team spanning London, Paris, Manchester, New York, Mississauga, Shanghai, Pune, and Tokyo.
• Develop efficient and robust solutions to complex business challenges.
• Contribute to the next generation of e-Trading experiences for Citi's traders in a globally distributed team environment, taking a leadership role in design and implementation.
• Gain extensive knowledge and exposure to Front Office Trading Systems, Fixed Income, and Derivatives flows.

Qualifications

Required:

• 10+ years of programming experience with an object-oriented language (preferably Java), including multi-threading concepts and relational databases.
• Solid architectural understanding of enterprise applications.
• Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals: concurrency, algorithms, data structures, design patterns, etc.
• Demonstrated experience leading a development team of significant size for large-scale projects, delivering complex solutions effectively.

Preferred:

• Experience with Java Core, Spring framework, and Linux.
• Demonstrated experience developing large financial software trading systems with significant hands-on development in optimizing and tuning performance, coupled with critical thinking skills related to re-use, scalability, and troubleshooting.
• Experience delivering solutions with ION Trading, Transficc, or other recognized connectivity vendors.
• Strong Fixed Income Financial Products knowledge (e.g., government/corporate bonds, ETFs, Interest Rate Swaps, Broker/Customer Markets electronic trading flows) to effectively translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Experience with KDB.
• Proficiency in modern software development practices such as Agile development, Test-Driven Development (TDD), Continuous Integration (CI), and Continuous Delivery (CD).
• Experience working in an Agile, globally distributed team using tools like Jira, Bitbucket, Sonar, and TeamCity.
• Familiarity with development tools such as IntelliJ, Gradle, etc.
• Experience with JSON/XML and REST services.

Education

• Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent professional experience.

Competencies

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively interact with business users and senior stakeholders.
• Strong teamwork and leadership skills, with the ability to thrive in and guide a distributed global team environment.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Self-motivated with a strong determination to learn and achieve goals, and inspire the same in others.
• Experience across the full software development lifecycle.

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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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Most Relevant Skills

Please see the requirements listed above.

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Other Relevant Skills

For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

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