Python Development Lead - Hybrid

Job Id: 23608574

Competencies

Citi is a leading global financial services company having 200 million customer accounts. Citi does business in more than 100 countries, providing 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 and wealth management.

This role will be part of the Financial Risk Technology Team in Citi’s Institutional Clients Group (ICG). Our goal is to build a strong culture of engineering and delivery where we put the business first while achieving all their complex goals of consistency, performance, efficiency, and transparency that a bank of the magnitude of Citi needs. This team is responsible for delivering market and credit risk technology and software solutions for Citi’s Front Office and Back Office Risk Management, which is an independent global function that is responsible for managing market, credit, operational, country, and underwriting risks that are embedded in the activities of its worldwide customer base. Software solutions from this group include high-throughput feed processing engines to process factor sensitivities and market data, high-performance pricing calculation engines that run on compute grids as well as large in-memory servers to calculate Value at Risk (VaR), Stress Testing and limit utilization calculations, and high-availability big data lakes for sharing risk metrics and stress results with Front Office, Risk, and Finance organizations. Roles in this team will provide candidates with a unique engineering opportunity to work on best-in-class software solutions for Front Office and Back Office Risk Management with latest commercial-off-the-shelf and cloud-enabled technology stack.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide strong hands-on in implementing data frameworks defined by the lead/architect in data ingestion and reporting teams.
• Influence and negotiate with senior technical leaders from partner teams of software engineers, dev-ops and production support staff to deliver robust software solutions. Ensure the team is collaborating effectively across functions.
• Utilize in-depth knowledge of technical and business domain concepts and procedures within own area and basic knowledge of other areas to resolve issues.
• Ensure solutions implemented by the team adhere to the appropriate architectural and data models in the systems.
• Enforce SDLC best practices for effectively managing the codebase.
• Lead a large global project team of software engineers delivering engineering solutions solving complex business problems for Citi’s Market Risk user community which includes Risk management, Sales and Trading, Capital Optimization and Regulatory reporting groups.

Skills

Extensive practical experience working with most if not all the technologies listed below.

• Knowledge on Test Driven Development
• Strong Knowledge in Database connectors, Stream/Batch processing, API Development
• SDLC/Dev Ops - Git/BitBucket, CI/CD pipeline frameworks such as Jenkins, SonarQube, JIRA, Any secure coding toolkits
• Python development with hands-on experience with Object Oriented Programming including Design Patterns
• Familiarity with Linux environment including scripting skills

Knowledge & Experience

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in Python development in Linux/Windows environments
• 8+ years of application development experience.
• Experience with Market Risk is a significant advantage.
• Proven engineering experience building robust, scalable and maintainable applications.
• Expert knowledge of industry best practices and standards.

Education

Graduate in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) discipline.

Citi Canada is an equal opportunity employer. Accordingly, we will make accommodations to respond to the needs of people with disabilities (including, without limitation, physical and mental health disabilities) during the recruitment process and otherwise in accordance with law. Individuals who view themselves as Aboriginals, members of visible minority or racialized communities, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

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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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