Overview

Citi is a world-leading global bank. We have approximately 200 million customer accounts and a presence in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions worldwide. We provide 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. We enable 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.

Citi Belfast is one of the largest employers in Northern Ireland with a diverse and talented team of over 4000 people from over 68 different nationalities across our four Belfast offices. We are the only global investment bank operating in Northern Ireland. Every day, our local experts interact with global teams in over 100 countries developing and supporting next-generation technology solutions for the enterprise and delivering critical services to the bank and its customers, to make sure we are a stronger and safer organization for our clients. You will have a truly global reach, which will provide you with new experiences and development opportunities right here in Belfast’s iconic Titanic Quarter.

This is an excellent opportunity to develop your technical skills in a fast-moving innovative environment and offers excellent career potential!

Responsibilities

• Write code on one or more development platforms to deliver part or all of a feature, under guidance from senior engineers.
• Respond to problems, questions, or situations by applying established criteria to directly influence development outcomes.
• Develop, design, test and implement secure, stable, testable and maintainable code.
• Engage in digital applications development, risk technology, Middleware, Mainframe applications, Non Mainframe applications, Analytic Model Development and Application support activities to meet specific business needs of user areas and to test systems to ensure integrity of deliverables.
• Display sound understanding of application development concepts and principles and a basic knowledge of concepts and principles in other technology areas.
• Work closely with users, clients and other technology groups on issues and recommend programming solutions for customer exposed systems.
• Develop a strong understanding of the functionality of the systems involved with projects. This includes the applications/services, runtime operations, and maintenance.
• Understand your technologies for your features and are able to evaluate system designs and architecture while participating in solution discussions, development and the creation of application / systems documentation.
• Participate in design sessions to gain an understanding of the context for design decisions and provide inputs for making these design decisions.
• Seek guidance from peers and / or manager for items not outlined in operating procedures.
• Provide inputs for building project development schedules.
• Provide inputs for feature prioritization, highlight technical dependencies between deliverables and help the scrum team reach consensus with the product owner.
• Verbal and written communication is clear and concise.
• Have good working relationships with team members, manager, and peers.
• Provide inputs to help improve development related processes that accelerate delivery, drive innovation, lower costs, and improve quality.
• 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

• 1yr+ years' commercial experience in an Applications Development role. Demonstrated execution capabilities.
• Experience of Java/Oracle/Angular
• Web development experience
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills; Data driven and results-oriented
• Experience in running high traffic, distributed, cloud based services
• Experience in affecting large culture change
• Experience leading infrastructure programs
• Skilled at working with third party service providers
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

Education

• Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience

What we’ll provide you

By joining Citi, 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 discretionary 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

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.

Job Family Group: Technology

Job Family: Digital Software Engineering

Time Type: Full time

Most Relevant Skills: Please see the requirements listed above.

Other Relevant Skills: For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

Equality statement: Citi is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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