Java Spark Applications Development - Assistant Vice President - C12 - Pune/Chennai

The Applications Development Lead is an intermediate level position responsible for participation in the establishment and implementation of new or revised application systems and programs in coordination with the Technology team. The overall objective of this role is to contribute to applications systems analysis and programming activities.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct tasks related to feasibility studies, time and cost estimates, IT planning, risk technology, applications development, model development, and establish and implement new or revised applications systems and programs to meet specific business needs or user areas
• Monitor and control all phases of development process and analysis, design, construction, testing, and implementation as well as provide user and operational support on applications to business users
• Utilize in-depth specialty knowledge of applications development to analyze complex problems/issues, provide evaluation of business process, system process, and industry standards, and make evaluative judgement
• Recommend and develop security measures in post implementation analysis of business usage to ensure successful system design and functionality
• Consult with users/clients and other technology groups on issues, recommend advanced programming solutions, and install and assist customer exposure systems
• Ensure essential procedures are followed and help define operating standards and processes
• Serve as advisor or coach to new or lower level analysts
• Has the ability to operate with a limited level of direct supervision.
• Can exercise independence of judgement and autonomy.
• Acts as SME to senior stakeholders and /or other team members.
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

Qualifications:

•  8 to 12 years of Application development experience using Java and spark 
•  The primary area of Experience with Core Java/J2EE Application with complete command over OOPs and Design Patterns. 
•  The candidate should be commendable in Data Structures and Algorithms. He should have worked on Core Application Development of complex size encompassing all areas of Java/J2EE.
•  She/He should Thorough knowledge and hands on experience in following technologies Hadoop, Map Reduce Framework, Spark, YARN, Sqoop, Pig , Hue, Unix, Java, Sqoop, Impala, Cassandra on Mesos. Cloudera certification (CCDH) is an added advantage. 
•  She/He should have implemented or part complex project execution in Big Data Spark eco system, where processing volumes of data thorough understanding of distributed processing and integrated applications.
•  Exposure to ETL and BI tools will be good.
•  Work in an agile environment following through the best practices of agile Scrum.
•  Expertise in designing and optimizing the software solutions for performance and stability.
•  Expertise in troubleshooting and problem solving.
•  Expertise in Test driven development.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience