{"id":1220882,"url":"https://alion.io/job/citi-python-risk-developer-vice-president","title":"Python Risk Developer - Vice President","company":{"id":7841,"name":"Citi","domain":"citi.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/citi","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":100,"open_postings":257,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0.089,"time_to_fill_p50_days":11,"computed_at":"2026-09-27T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":"head","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["London, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":77000,"max_usd":209000,"period":"year","method":"global_role_cell_scaled_by_country","sample_n":83},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"OpenShift","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"RabbitMQ","optional":false},{"name":"SQL","optional":false},{"name":"C#","optional":true},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":true},{"name":"Jenkins","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-25T11:51:44Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-25","last_verified_at":"2026-09-27T23:40:32Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":2,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":2},"description":"Discover your future at Citi\nWorking at Citi is far more than just a job. A career with us means joining a team of more than 230,000 dedicated people from around the globe. At Citi, you’ll have the opportunity to grow your career, give back to your community and make a real impact.\nJob Overview\nThe Commodities trading business at Citi has grown significantly in the last 10 years to become one of the leading industry players. It is a federated business model that covers market-making across all types of assets including Oil, Gas, Power, Agriculture, Emissions, Metals, Freight, Exotics and Indices.\nThis role is within the London Commodities Risk Technology team, focussing on our front-office trading platform. This proprietary trading platform is currently going through an exciting re-engineering phase and we are seeking to build out the development team.\nThis front-office risk system calculates large volumes of results data, so there are considerable challenges in data modelling, distributed processing & grid computing. Hence, we require a seasoned developer who can efficiently design and develop micro-services and components which can handle and process large amount of data with optimal performance. The application the candidate will be developing is a highly-distributed Python-based micro-services platform that uses RabbitMQ for transport and Openshift/Kubernetes for deployment.\nWe are committed to hiring the brightest and best technical experts and in return can offer roles with direct business interaction and day-to-day usage of the latest technology.\nWhat you'll do\nServices Development and maintenance: Design, develop and maintain high performing fault-tolerant Python micro-services, in order to deliver a seamless user experience for our clients.\n\nStakeholder Management: Work with Traders and Risk Managers to gather requirements, perform analysis and develop functionality. Assist with SL3 to resolve production issues.\n\nCollaboration with internal technology teams: Collaborate with the Markets Quantitative Analytics (MQA) team who develop analytics pricing models to integrate with the Risk Platform and with the Commodities Market Data (CMD) team.\n\nCollaboration with Global Teams: The Commodities Technology team in Citi is spread across various geographies worldwide and a key responsibility is to collaborate and work effectively with these global teams.\n\nIntegration with other supporting libraries: Work on integrating other libraries such as Market Data, Trade Repository, Analytics into the Risk Platform.\n\nContinuous Learning: Stay updated with latest trends and developments in technology.\n\nWhat we’ll need from you\nIdeally from a Commodities Risk background, though any front-office derivatives experience useful.\n\nA history of interacting with the trading desks and ability to analyse and address issues and queries quickly and effectively.\n\nRecent hands-on experience with Python plus SQL Server and ideally some Parquet exposure.\n\nEvidence of strong delivery throughout the entire lifecycle.\n\nStrong problem-solving skills and capability to write code quickly and accurately, plus experience of troubleshooting production issues.\n\nExperience of working with an analytics library.\n\nPreferred Skills\nUnderstanding of the risk greeks, products (Options, Futures, Exotics) and market data (curves, fixings/settlements, etc) ideally within a commodities business context.\n\nExperience with Python and databases within a distributed micro-services architecture.\n\nSome experience of loosely coupled architectures and queuing technology, ideally RabbitMQ.\n\nSome experience of C# would be advantageous.\n\nGood software engineering skills e.g. SOLID, TDD etc\n\nExperience in a CI/CD and Automated Deployment environment with tools such as OpenShift/Kubernetes, Jenkins, uDeploy.\n\nExperience of using AI tools to assist with development.\n\nWhat we can offer you\nWe work hard to have a positive financial and social impact on the communities we serve. In turn, we put our employees first and provide the best-in-class benefits they need to be well, live well and save well.\nBy joining Citi London, 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:\nGenerous holiday allowance starting at 27 days plus bank holidays; increasing with tenure\n\nA discretional annual performance related bonus\n\nPrivate medical insurance packages to suit your personal circumstances\n\nEmployee Assistance Program\n\nPension Plan\n\nPaid Parental Leave\n\nSpecial discounts for employees, family, and friends\n\nAccess to an array of learning and development resources\n\nAlongside 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.\nSounds like Citi has everything you need? Then apply to discover the true extent of your capabilities.\n------------------------------------------------------\nJob Family Group:\nTechnology------------------------------------------------------\nJob Family:\nApplications Development------------------------------------------------------\nTime Type:\nFull time------------------------------------------------------\nMost Relevant Skills\nPlease see the requirements listed above.------------------------------------------------------\nOther Relevant Skills\nFor complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.------------------------------------------------------\nCiti 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.\nIf you are a person with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to use our search tools and/or apply for a career opportunity review Accessibility at Citi.\nView Citi’s EEO Policy Statement and the Know Your Rights poster.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6230,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Continuous learning","Health insurance","Hybrid work","Parental leave"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United Kingdom","iso":"GB","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Commercial & Retail Banks","Wealth Management & Financial Advisors","Payment Processing & Gateways","Investment Banking & M&A Advisory"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-25T11:51:44Z"}],"liveness":{"score":88,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.876,"p_room":1,"age_days":1,"expected_fill_days":11,"reasons":["conf:1","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-09-27T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/citi-python-risk-developer-vice-president","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/citi-python-risk-developer-vice-president.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-28T04:33:15Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":2829,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":2171,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-09-29T00:00:00Z"}}}