Overview
CITIGROUP is one of the largest players in the financial industry, employing more than 200,000 people across the globe.
What We Do / The Team
The Commodities trading business at CITI has grown significantly in the last 10 years to become one of the leading industry players. It is a federated business model that covers market-making across all types of assets including Oil, Gas, Power, Agriculture, Emissions, Metals, Freight, Exotics and Indices.
This role is within the London Commodities Risk Technology team, focussing on our front-office trading platform. This proprietary trading platform is currently going through an exciting re-engineering phase and we are seeking to build out the development team.
This front-office risk system calculates large volumes of results data, so there are considerable challenges in data modelling, distributed processing & grid computing. Hence, we require a seasoned developer who can efficiently design and develop micro-services and components which can handle and process large amount of data with optimal performance. The application the candidate will be developing is a highly-distributed Python-based micro-services platform that uses RabbitMQ for transport and Openshift/Kubernetes for deployment.
We are committed to hiring the brightest and best technical experts and in return can offer roles with direct business interaction and day–to-day usage of the latest technology.
Role Overview/What will you do:
- Services Development and maintenance: Design, develop and maintain high performing fault-tolerant Python (& C#/.NET) micro-services, in order to deliver a seamless user experience for our clients.
- Stakeholder Management: Work with Traders and Risk Managers to gather requirements, perform analysis and develop functionality. Assist with SL3 to resolve production issues.
- Collaboration with internal technology teams: Collaborate with the Markets Quantitative Analytics (MQA) team who develop analytics pricing models to integrate with the Risk Platform and with the Commodities Market Data (CMD) team.
- Collaboration with Global Teams: The Commodities Technology team in Citi is spread across various geographies worldwide and a key responsibility is to collaborate and work effectively with these global teams.
- Integration with other supporting libraries: Work on integrating other libraries such as Market Data, Trade Repository, Analytics into the Risk Platform.
- Continuous Learning: Stay updated with latest trends and developments in technology.
Key Skills And Experience Required
- Experience working within a Front-office derivatives environment is essential (Front Office risk preferred)
- A history of interacting with the trading desks and ability to analyse and address issues and queries quickly and effectively.
- Proven recent hands-on experience with Python (and ideally C#) plus SQL Server and/or Parquet. Evidence of strong delivery throughout the entire lifecycle.
- Strong problem-solving skills and capability to write code quickly and accurately to troubleshoot production issues.
Bonus points for
- Commodities Risk background
This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.
What We’ll Provide You
By joining Citi London, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), but also receive a competitive base salary (which is annually reviewed), and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits such as:
- 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
- A discretional annual performance related bonus
- Private Medical Care & Life Insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Pension Plan
- Paid Parental Leave
- Special discounts for employees, family, and friends
- Access to an array of learning and development resources
Visit our Global Benefits page to learn more.
Alongside these benefits Citi is committed to ensuring our workplace is where everyone feels comfortable coming to work as their whole self, every day. We want the best talent around the world to be energized to join us, motivated to stay and empowered to thrive.
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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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