Applications Development Sr Programmer Analyst - C12 - PUNE

Job Purpose:

Citi’s FX eTrading team is a high-intensity product development unit that defines, designs and develops critical front-office applications for the Global FX & Local Markets business.

Job Background/context:

Global FX and Local Markets (FX) Tech is a dynamic and high-performing division of Citi’s ICG Technology. The FX eTrading Tech Unit (FXLM Tech BU)is based out of Chennai, Pune. This team manages mission-critical applications that drive deal booking, risk management, eCommerce and analytical applications across multiple asset classes - Foreign Exchange (FX), Money Markets (MM), Fixed Incomes (FI) and Derivatives. The team also provides production support for the various applications and the Platform Management that they run on. 

We work on business critical high availability application solutions for the FXLM business that are deployed across 80+ countries and power our global FX & Local Markets business. Our applications are considered amongst the best-in-class within the industry, with our eCommerce and analytical products continuing to win industry awards year after year.

Our team in India is about 450 strong now. The senior members of the team are permanent staff and we make extensive use of contract staff in our delivery, including at PL level. As part of the expansion, the team is looking to hire top-performing Developers/ Senior Developers with proven track record, reporting to the Development Project Lead.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for handling the DevOps role for eTrading applications.
• Responsible to manage the build and deployment infrastructure of eTrading applications
• Utilizes knowledge of unix scripting, Jenkins, Gradle, and continuous delivery tools to enhance and maintain the existing build/deployment system, and also revamp it
• Possesses excellent understanding of unix and scripting
• Understands and solves issues with complex build pipelines
• Co-ordinates production changes and releases
• Understands and recommends the right way of managing source code modules for complicated runtime requirements and helps to provide clean build system for those
• Understands advanced levels of environment provisioning and designs build ecosystem that supports quick environment provisioning
• Good understanding of continuous integration and continuous delivery systems

Development Value:

This position gives an excellent opportunity for the selected candidate to play a significant role in an exciting and critical business within Citi. As a member of our highly acclaimed Technology team, this role provides the opportunity to participate in the build and deployment, and continuous delivery pipeline management for some very complicated applications in the electronic Trading space. All the applications in this area are very advance, latency sensitive critical applications making use of cutting edge technologies like Tibco RV, Chronicle, deep learning, etc., Maintaining this rapidly changing environment is a great challenge to undertake and gives enormous amount of learning opportunities

Skills:

• Strong Scripting Skills
• Good understanding of continuous integration and continuous delivery systems
• Ability to guide the juniors

Technical

Essential:

• Excellent shell scripting knowledge
• Excellent knowledge of build tools
• Packaging and Versioning procedures for complex applications
• Continuous integration and continuous delivery concepts
• Production release management
• Co-ordination skills to work with multiple support teams

Desirable

• Ant/Maven
• Jenkins
• Ansible
• Unix Scripting

Beneficial:                        

• Gradle
• TeamCity
• uDeploy

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience in devops engineering roles
• Graduation/Post Graduation qualifications in Engineering stream with a very good academic record throughout from premier institutions
• A high degree of Analytical ability and Quantitative skills is desirable

Competencies:

• Innovative and Positive ‘Can Do’ attitude
• Planning and Organising – Ability to identify the steps to be taken to achieve objectives
• Resilience – Used to working towards tight deadlines, under pressure and using appropriate coping methods to stay focused
• Accountability –self start on goals and achieve targets