CitiGroup®

Job Opportunity

Senior Analyst Programmer Rates

Job Purpose:
 
A role has become available for a senior developer in the Fixed Income Rates development team in London, working on Flow pricing platform. The role will involve enhancing, refactoring and extending our platform to provide both new functionality and improved system performance to traders.  There will be a particular focus on developing the traders' client application; this will primarily be for London trading, although the platform is global and there are significant opportunities to work with colleagues on a global level. 
 
London reporting line:
 
This role will be reporting to the Pricing Systems development manager in London.
 
Job Background/context:
 
This is a challenging and exciting opportunity to work within the G10 Rates group and work closely with a front-office business unit and established technology teams to develop our strategically important platform. 
 
The Fixed Income business has set an ambitious growth plan, and strong technical development is critical to achieving our goals and enhancing our leading position in the financial market.
 
The successful candidate will play a key role in that success.

 
Key Responsibilities:
 
This position involves:

Requirements analysis and capture, working closely with the business users to define solutions.
Development of the Rates Flow client-facing GUI, as part of a global development effort
Liaison with support and development teams
Vendor management and liaison
Third line support of the platform during trading hours
Applying Fixed Income Rates financial product knowledge to the full development lifecycle
Defining and evolving architectural standards; promoting adherence to these standards
Technical mentoring of junior team members  

Key Relationships:  

Pricing development teams in London, New York, Tokyo
Other Flow Rates development teams that manage Price Distribution, Risk and Algo applications
E-Trading Production Support
G10 Rates trading desks
Fixed Income E-Commerce team
Our technology vendors  

Development Value:

Work in a leading banking environment learning high criticality complex trading systems
Use of .NET/Java/Unix technologies
Use of Marketview/Rendezvous platforms/protocols
Gain an in-depth understanding of Fixed Income flow business, markets, products and flows

Knowledge/Experience:

Significant C# and .Net programming experience (particularly Windows client development)
Unix / Linux server-side development
Java programming language
Fixed Income experience in trading environment
Desirable: Real-time messaging, low latency computing, Complex Event Processing, Relational databases

Skills:

Required:

OO programming (Java, C#)
Solid understanding of OO principles
.Net  

Desirable:

MarketView, KDB, Apama
Quantitative Finance and analysis skills  

Qualifications:

Bachelor degree in Computer Science / Information Technology or a related fiel

Competencies:

Excellent communication skills, oral and written; ability to face off to business users
Good team working skills and ability to work in a distributed global team environment
Strong analytical and problem solving skills
Self-motivated and with determination to achieve goals
Flexible and able to deliver quality results in the required timeframe
Experience in full lifecycle development
Influencing skills to drive client development standards globally for Rates