Job Overview:
This role is responsible for the delivery and ownership of the equities warrants market making application stack in Australia. You will be working with the global warrants market making team in Pune, London and Frankfurt to represent the Australian business and actively engage in all aspects of SDLC including close collaboration with the business, gathering functional and non-functional requirements, designing solutions, providing architectural input, code reviews, testing and deploying applications
What you’ll do:
- Develop technical solutions to meet business requirements taking into account recommended technologies, non-functional requirements, internal policies and procedures
- 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 behaviour, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency
- Develop and maintain strong working relationships with peers and other technology team members both locally and overseas
- Comply with the ethical standards contained in the Code of Conduct
- Participate in all elements of SDLC from gathering business requirements through architecting, designing, code reviews, testing, deploying applications
- Oversee development of Australian equities warrants market making application stack, design solutions, coordinate delivery, investigate production incidents, offer L2 support to the business
- Offer support to head of Australian Markets and Securities Services Technology and global Warrants Market Making business
- Develop and maintain strong working relationships with the local and regional business
What you’ll have:
- Knowledge of third party Market Data provider platforms (eg, Reuters) highly desirable
- Experience with working effectively with remote teams across different timezones
- Strong capabilities in Business Analysis, Architecture and Design
- Proven experience with analysis and design in a real-time environment, preferably gained in a financial trading systems environment
- Understanding of Market Making concepts & Algo Trading is preferrable
- Familiarity with both traditional waterfall as well agile project management methodologies
- Strong knowledge of relational databases (Sybase, SqlServer) and script languages (perl, bash, python)
- Strong knowledge of the Australian equities and derivatives markets
- Good written and verbal communication skills with ability to communicate technical concepts to various audiences (both business and technology) at appropriate level in clear and concise manner
- In-depth knowledge of FIX protocol and proven experience in front-office system delivery
- Good foundation in equity derivatives, and understanding of greeks & risk calculations is preferable.
- Experience of implementing complex projects involving multiple stakeholders and taking them from initial concept through to final delivery and post implementation support
- Understanding of high volume, low latency trading systems and technical challenges of their design and operation
- Familiarity with regulatory environments in relation to Market Making
- Understanding of issues and concerns surrounding Market Making and Algo trading
- Understanding of guiding principles of robust enterprise architecture
- Well-rounded technologist with a good grasp of Java, C++ & C#