Senior Java Engineer - Assistant Vice President
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 11, 2026. First seen by Alion on Nov 10, 2026. Citi scores A on the Alion truth index.
Who are we:
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 team:
The Derivatives Credit Risk Technology Team is responsible for delivering Counterparty Credit Risk Management software solutions to Citi’s Risk organization which manages Citi’s exposure to financial institutions, governments and corporates that trade with Citi. The team builds and maintains software used to compute metrics that help mitigate Citi’s exposure to counterparty default. These include computation of optimal Margin Allocation for Portfolios and Trades, Haircut for Security and Cash Collateral, Trade and Collateral Liquidity, Collateral Concentration Levels and Wrong Way Risk, amongst others.
What you will be doing:
- Deliver advanced technology projects as an individual contributor providing expertise in the full software development lifecycle, from concept and design, development, to testing and deployment.
- Serve as advisor or coach to mid-level/junior developers and analysts, helping build the overall engineering capabilities of the team.
- Have the ability to provide technical leadership on projects implemented by the wider team of Software Engineers/Analyst Developers using advanced knowledge of application development.
- Collaborate effectively with a large global team of software engineers, business analysts, dev-ops and support staff to deliver software solutions for the business.
What you will bring to the role:
Technical Skills
- Core Java experience developing robust, scalable, and maintainable applications applying Object Oriented Design principles
- Hands-on experience with concurrent programming.
- Experience with Agile software development processes with a strong emphasis on test driven development.
- Understanding of Java internals such as class loading and memory management.
- Distributed Caching frameworks such as Gemfire, Oracle Coherence, Redis or equivalent.
- Databases - RDBMS preferably Oracle, NoSQL preferably MongoDB.
- Familiarity with Linux environment including scripting skills.
- SDLC/Dev Ops - Git/BitBucket, CI/CD pipeline frameworks such as Jenkins, SonarQube, JIRA, Any secure coding toolkits.
Competencies
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills (English).
- Ability to collaborate effectively in a large global team and influence key architectural decision.
- Ability to multitask and work well under pressure.
- A self-starter and has the thirst to continually improve and develop.
Bonus points for
- Experience working in the Capital Markets domain.
- Understanding of Derivatives and Risk management
- Experience re-engineering large monolithic applications to microservices.
- Experience re-engineering complex franchise critical applications to new platforms.
- Cloud computing technologies with practical experience working with containers, microservices and large datasets (Docker, Kubernetes).
Qualifications/Education
- Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering/STEM subject Or experience in a similar role.
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