Backend Java Developer - Belfast, United Kingdom - eFinancialCareers

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Belfast, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Overview of Citi:

Citi, the world leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and a presence in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions worldwide.

Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financialproducts and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management.

Citi enables clients to achieve their strategic financial objectives by providing them with cutting-edgeideas, best-in-class products and solutions, and unparalleled access to capital and liquidity.

Team/Function Overview

Citi Belfast have an exciting new opportunity for a Java Developer within the Markets Data, Risk and Controls Technology function.

This role sits within a growing team, building technology solutions for the Markets Chief Administrative Office and for variousbusiness risk and controls functions within our Institutional Clients Group.

Role / Position Overview
This is a hands-on role developing backend services for the platform.

You will work with the other developers, business analysts and product managers as your key stakeholders to ensure we are meeting their requirements to develop and drive highly scalableproduct.

You will also contribute to the team's strategy around development and deployment best practices.

Key Responsibilities:

Build and maintain the multiple components of the platform ensuring timely delivery of work items
Resolve a high impact problem through indepth evaluation of complex architectures, business processes and industry standards
Contribute to research and suggest for new projects within the Market Technology

Development Value:

Opportunity to build modern technology solutions utilising best in class technical tools and frameworks
You will gain significant knowledge of Business Risk & Controls platforms and products

Skills & Qualifications:

Handson experience in Application Development leveraging Java and Spring Boot including scalable backend services and API's
Strong understanding of modern architecture and design patterns including Microservices and Even Driven design
Knowledge of messaging technologies RabbitMQ, Tibco Queue, Apache Kafka etc.
Professional Experience using SQL\NoSQL DB technologies (Oracle, MS SQL, Mongo DB, etc.) and in memory caching and searching technologies (ElasticSearch, Hazelcast, Couchbase, etc)
Previous experience deploying faulttolerant distributed systems on Linux in a cloud environment and familiar with cloud computing concepts and DevOps tools (Docker, Kubernetes, Openshift)
Knowledge of testing automation principles and frameworks (e.g. TDD, BDD, contract testing)
High development standards under pressure, especially for code quality, code reviews, unit testing, continuous integration, and deployment
You have an appetite for taking on challenges and leveraging new technologies
You have experience working in fast paced development environments
You agree that verbal and written communication skills are vital

Qualifications:

Competencies:

Experience delivering successful projects into production that can be maintained within strict operational margins
Ability to adjust priorities quickly as circumstances dictate and have experience working in fast paced development environments
Ability to work autonomously
Ability to interact with clients and deliver results, taking ideas to production

What we Offer
As well as a competitive salary and consideration for a yearly discretionary bonus Citi offer:

Award winning pension scheme,
Life assurance and
Private medical insurance

In addition, we offer a competitive maternity, paternity and adoption leave scheme.

We pride ourselves on our ability to offer employees a number of lifestyle benefits including on site restaurant and coffee shops, online shopping and concierge service andsubsidised clubs and societies.

Our Select benefit package offers you the opportunity to customise your benefits according to your own lifestyle preferences and includes corporate discounts, memberships and a range of additional extras.

Our vast range of diversity networks and on site multi faith room demonstrates Citi's commitment to growing a diverse workforce.

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Job Family Group:

Technology

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Job Family:

Applications Development

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Time Type:

Full time

Citi is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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