Senior Java Architect

**Role**

We are looking for a hands-on Senior developer and Cloud Engineer with an emphasis on building reusable microservices, an observability platform and other utilities to speed up the group's transition to this architecture. The role will also be responsible for evaluating, designing, developing, and implementing high quality engineering solutions for Citi Eq Middle Office group. You will be leading a small but dynamic team of engineers responsible for researching, exploring and adopting the latest technologies to modernize platform services and solutions. You will be working with the senior management team to define cloud strategy, cloud adoption plan and cloud transition plan. You must have a good understanding of IT architecture, DevOps, Software Engineering, Platform Solutions Design and Strategy, and Application & System Integration.

You will need to work closely with Citi Infra and DevOps teams to evaluate and identify optimal cloud solutions.

**Responsibilities**
- Define the technology roadmap and prioritize technical resources against to achieve maximum success
- Ensuring the platform conforms to security best practices and is fully consistent with banking audit and compliance requirements and fully consistent with the design ethos and technical requirements of external cloud providers
- Supporting adoption of containers and container control frameworks for internal Cloud Services, including container platform selection and design and ensuring that self-service design/deployment/control web containers is appropriate for requirements
- Ensuring lifecycle management consists of documentation such as test cases, source code repositories etc are actively used and maintained
- Developing highly available infrastructures in a cloud services environment, preferably with cloud providers such as OpenShift or AWS
- Implement continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment practice, tooling, and techniques, particularly evidence of leading organizational and cultural change to adopt CI/CD practices (Jira, Confluence, BitBucket, Git; Jenkins, Artifactory, Terraform, Packer, Rundeck, Ansible, AWS, ELK, AppDynamics)
- Enable AI based monitoring automation to effectively detect/predict/prevent issues in the environment and code base.

**Qualification & Job Requirements**
- Degree in Computer Science or Electronic/Electrical Engineering
- ~15 years of Banking Software development experience, including management experiences or equivalent
- Knowledge of low-latency frameworks such as Chronicle / garbage-free programming in Java
- Knowledge in IT Infrastructure (i.e. IT Networks, Communications, and Data C-entre Management) and Infra Support Operations
- Working experience in Linux operating system, Windows, Groovy, Python, JavaScript, Java, ELK, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Confluence, SonarQube, Nexus and scripting experience to do integrations through API, CLI for extracting data and to perform automated operations
- Very Strong experience in in Shell Scripting, Batch Scripting to do automation, command line integration and invoking REST API using postman is mandatory
- Must have hands on experience in building microservices using in Java and Spring Boot Framework Stack.
- Working experience in Messaging platform such AMPS, TIBCO, SOLACE and MQ
- Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL database
- Strong knowledge and experience in DevOps automation, containerization and orchestration using tools such as Gradle, Maven, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Artifactory
- Support the initiatives to improve the Cloud Infrastructure systems and service delivery through automation and virtualization technologies
- Strong knowledge and experience in Application Process Monitoring tools such as Micrometer, Prometheus, Grafana, ITRS, Tempo etc.
- Knowledge of Distributed cache framework such Redis, GemFire etc
- Project Management experience deploying mid-size IT projects
- Experience in managing geographically dispersed teams utilizing Agile/Scrum/Lean principles and practices
- Possess good interpersonal and communication skills, effective decision-making capabilities and good problem-solving abilities.

**Good to Have**
- Equity Middle Office Trade Processing Operations Knowledge
- TCP and UDP based network programming
- Knowledge of big data tools: Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, etc.

**Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise**
- Certified Kubernetes Application/App Developer
- OpenShift Certified Administrator
- AWS, Azure, Red Hat cloud engineer certification**Job Family Group**:
Technology
- **Job Family**:
Applications Development
- **Time Type**:
Full time-
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