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KDB Developer Team Lead

Employer
Citi
Location
Belfast, United Kingdom
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
Dec 10, 2022

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Job Function
Banking
Industry Sector
Finance - General
Employment Type
Full Time
Education
Bachelors
Overview of Citi:

Citi, the world leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and a presence in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions worldwide. Citi provides 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, transaction services, and wealth management. Citi enables clients to achieve their strategic financial objectives by providing them with cutting-edge ideas, best-in-class products and solutions, and unparalleled access to capital and liquidity.

The Applications Development Senior Manager is a senior management level position responsible for accomplishing results through the management of a team or department in an effort to establish and implement new or revised application systems and programs in coordination with the Technology team. The overall objective of this role is to drive applications systems analysis and programming activities.

Responsibilities:
  • Manage one or more Applications Development teams in an effort to accomplish established goals as well as conduct personnel duties for team (e.g. performance evaluations, hiring and disciplinary actions)
  • Utilize in-depth knowledge and skills across multiple Applications Development areas to provide technical oversight across systems and applications
  • Review and analyze proposed technical solutions for projects
  • Contribute to formulation of strategies for applications development and other functional areas
  • Develop comprehensive knowledge of how areas of business integrate to accomplish business goals
  • Provide evaluative judgment based on analysis of factual data in complicated and unique situations
  • Impact the Applications Development area through monitoring delivery of end results, participate in budget management, and handling day-to-day staff management issues, including resource management and allocation of work within the team/project
  • Ensure essential procedures are followed and contribute to defining standards negotiating with external parties when necessary
  • 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, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.
Qualifications:
  • Extensive experience in the Financial Service industry
  • Experience as Applications Development Manager
  • Experience as senior level in an Applications Development role
  • Stakeholder and people management experience
  • Demonstrated leadership skills
  • Proven project management skills
  • Basic knowledge of industry practices and standards
  • Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication
Education:
  • Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience
  • Master's degree preferred
What we Offer:
As well as a competitive salary and consideration for a yearly discretionary bonus Citi offer;
  • 23 days paid annual leave
  • Award winning pension scheme,
  • Life assurance and
  • Private medical insurance with Bupa healthcare.
In addition, we offer a competitive maternity, paternity and adoption leave scheme. We pride ourselves on our ability to offer employees a number of lifestyle benefits including; on site restaurant and coffee shops, online shopping and concierge service and subsidised clubs and societies.

Our Select benefit package offers you the opportunity to customise your benefits according to your own lifestyle preferences and includes corporate discounts, memberships and a range of additional extras.

Team:

The FX KDB team is improving the architecture of the existing market and trade capture system, allowing it to scale to capture more data sets required by the business. Then to expand to taking responsibility for developing applications/analytics on-top of that data.

The team works as part of a wider cross asset KDB team with a common capture stack and a focus on solving problems to benefit multiple groups of users across business groups.

This is an opportunity to solve big data problems at terabyte scale while working closely with business stakeholders. The application runs on 50+ servers with 300+ data sets distributed globally, providing answers to over 600 users.

There is an emphasis on always improving our SDLC, automating repeatable work and developing software which is easy to support and will scale as the user base continues to expand.

Role:

The successful applicant will work as the manager of the FX KDB team and will be expected to:
  • Lead the team in developing the application as required by the users
  • Gather requirements, propose and communicate solutions, ensure features are fully tested and follow up that the final product satisfies user needs
  • Actively implement solutions when your expertise delivers the highest leverage
  • Assist the members of your team in improving their own skills so they can be responsible for areas of the project
  • Work with the other KDB team leads to continuously improve the SDLC and experience for KDB developers at Citi
  • Ensure your team is always working on the tasks which being most benefit to the users
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Job Family Group:
Technology -------------------------------------------------
Job Family:
Applications Development ------------------------------------------------------
Time Type:
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Citi is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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