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About Citi
Citi, the leading global financial services company, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. 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. Our core activities are safeguarding assets, lending money, making payments and accessing the capital markets on behalf of our clients.
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About Team and Platform
Citi Futures and Derivatives Clearing Technology supports a rapidly growing business that uses technological innovation to maintain competitive advantage in a constantly evolving market. Working closely with the business, external vendors and internal technology teams, you would build-out and maintain our next generation clearing platforms. You would manage complex projects that will involve everything from incorporating a new functionality within the existing ecosystem, to analyzing new requirements, documenting solutions, managing implementation and testing systems, ensuring that they are fit for purpose. You would regularly work with a range of Business Analysts and high-profile stakeholders.
The Data and Reporting team develops and supports a platform that provides client reporting and feeds other downstream applications within Citi. It provides reporting such as real-time trades, positions, initial and variation margin, positions and balances for external clients and internal users such as traders, operations and sales. A major ongoing initiative is to modernize the existing platform in order to provide scale and to enhance product offerings and new business requirements.
As the development lead for the data and reporting, you will lead the team to deliver best in class technical solutions to meet the needs of our Futures and Clearing business. This includes researching best practices, designing the application architecture, designing the solutions, and delivering our application to the business. The team works closely with cross-functional business users, QA engineers and BAs collaborating to deliver best in class solutions. This role suits experienced architects/developers who have excellent communication and are passionate about driving technical solutions through leadership, excellence, collaboration.
Responsibilities:
- Supports initiatives related to User Acceptance Testing (UAT) process and product rollout into production. Testing specialists who work with technology project managers, UAT professionals and users to design and implement appropriate scripts/plans for an application testing strategy/approach.
- Conducts a variety of moderately complex process monitoring, product evaluation and audit assignments; reports issues and makes recommendations for solutions.
- Ensures project standards and procedures exist, are fully clearly documented and followed throughout the software development life cycle; makes recommendations for enhanced documentation.
- Monitors products for conformance to standards; monitors processes for conformance to procedures.
- Documents findings and performs preliminary root causes analyses to provide recommended improvements.
- Ensures all corrective actions are assigned, documented and completed.
- Verifies traceability in project work products.
- Gathers, maintains and creates reports on quality metrics.
- Exhibits good understanding of procedures and concepts within own technical area and a basic knowledge of these elements in other areas.
- Requires basic understanding of how own area integrates within IT Quality to achieve objectives.
- Makes evaluative judgments based on the analysis of factual information; resolves problems by identifying and selecting solutions through the application of acquired technical experience and guided by precedents.
- Directly impacts the business by ensuring the quality of work provided by self and others; impacts own team and closely related work teams.
- Provides informal guidance to new team members.
- Performs other duties and functions as assigned.
- 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:
- Strong experience in Quality Assurance (QA) development and automation experience
- Experience in requirement reviews & able to identify, communicate and document discrepancies.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Proven ability to work to deadlines.
- Understanding of QA within the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and QA methodologies
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, enabling effective collaboration with cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and management
- Strong experience in Quality Processes and test case development
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, enabling effective collaboration with cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and management.
- QA Experience in defining, designing & executing test cases
- Experience in QA tools
- Experience in AI and DevOps/CI CD is a plus
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience in computer sciences, engineering, math/statistics
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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Technology
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Technology Quality
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Full time
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Please see the requirements listed above.
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For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.
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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.
