The Applications Development Intermediate Programmer Analyst 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:
- Utilize knowledge of applications development procedures and concepts, and basic knowledge of other technical areas to
identify and define necessary system enhancements, including using script tools and analyzing/interpreting code
- Consult with users, clients, and other technology groups on issues, and recommend programming solutions, install, and
support customer exposure systems
- Apply fundamental knowledge of programming languages for design specifications.
- Analyze applications to identify vulnerabilities and security issues, as well as conduct testing and debugging
- Serve as advisor or coach to new or lower level analysts
- Identify problems, analyze information, and make evaluative judgements to recommend and implement solutions
- Resolve issues by identifying and selecting solutions through the applications of acquired technical experience and guided by precedents
- 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.
Core Responsibilities:
- This role is for a Data Engineering Senior Developer/Analyst to work on the Vanguard Big Data Platform. The team is responsible for the development, enhancement and maintenance of leading Big Data initiatives and use cases providing business value.
- Interface with product teams to understand their requirements to build the ingestion pipelines and conformance layer for consumption by business, product and operation teams.
- Work closely with the data ingestion team to track the requirements and drive the build out of the canonical models
- Provide guidance to the data conformance team for implementing the requirements/changes/enhancements to the conformance model
- Do hands-on development as part of the conformance team to deliver the business requirements
- Manage the workload of the team and the scrum process to align it with the objectives and priorities of the product owners
- Participate in data management activities related to the Risk and Regulatory requirements as needed.
Core Skills:
- The Data Engineering Senior Business/Data Analyst/Programmer will be working very closely with a team of data engineers working on our Big Data Platform. The Senior Analyst/Developer will need the below core skills
- Strong solid understanding of the Big Data architecture and the ability to trouble shoot performance and/or development issues on Hadoop (Cloudera preferably)
- Hands-on experience working with Core SQL, Hive, Impala and HBase, Kudu, Spark for data curation/conformance related work
- Strong proficiency in Spark for development work related to curation/conformance. Strong Scala developer (with previous Java background) preferred.
- Experience with Spark/Storm/Kafka or equivalent streaming/batch processing and event-based messaging
- Strong data analysis skills and the ability to slice and dice the data as needed for business reporting
- Experience working in an agile environment with a fast-paced changing requirements.
- Excellent planning and organizational skills
- Strong Communication skills
Additional Requirements (good/nice to have):
- Cloudera/Hortonworks/AWS EMR, Snowflake, Couchbase, S3 experience a plus
- Experience with the AWS or GCP tech stack components
- Relational and NoSQL database integration and data distribution principles experience
- Experience with API development and use of JSON/XML/Hypermedia data formats
- Analysis and development across Lines of business including Payments, Digital Channels, Liquidities, Trade, Client Experience
- Cross train and fertilize functional and technical knowledge
- Align to Engineering Excellence Development principles and standards.
- Promote and increase our Development Productivity scores for coding
- Fully adhere to and evangelize a full Continuous Integration and Continuous Deploy pipeline
Qualifications:
- 4-7 years of relevant experience in the Financial Service industry
- Intermediate level experience in Applications Development role
- Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication
- Demonstrated problem-solving and decision-making skills
- Ability to work under pressure and manage deadlines or unexpected changes in expectations or requirements
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.
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Job Family Group:
Technology
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Job Family:
Applications Development
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Time Type:
Full time
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Most Relevant Skills
Please see the requirements listed above.
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Other Relevant Skills
For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.
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