Job Senior Lead Database Developer in Toronto

Fixed Income Trade Processing Services Overview

Citi is the market maker and a global leader in all major Fixed Income markets in across the globe. TPS is Citi’s primary Fixed Income trading platform processing Derivatives, Cash and Exotics products with 2000+ Trading, Sales, Middle Office users globally. TPS, built on state of the art technology stack processes around 200,000 transactions daily and provides real time position , risk management capabilities. It has connectivity to 60+ electronic trading venues and 20+ regulatory bodies globally.

Unified Trade Process team is a dynamic and high-performing division of Citi’s Markets business.

We work on business critical high availability application solutions across 80+ countries. Our applications are considered amongst the best-in-class within the industry, with our eCommerce and analytical products continuing to win industry awards year after year.

The team works closely with end users gaining direct exposure to the fast paced world of capital markets trading.

We are looking for talented and passionate individuals to join our growing Engineering team to evolve our next-generation trading application. They would lead the efforts to transition our application to smaller services, be driving database optimizations, enable performance tuning to enable low latency trading. The successful candidate will gain valuable exposure to the Fixed Income Trading business and an opportunity to work on a large scale, modern technology platform with a global presence. The team works closely with end users gaining direct exposure to the fast paced world of capital markets trading.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure strong reliability, scalability and performance of our components.

• Drive architecture and execute on our technical strategy.

• Partner with multiple teams to ensure appropriate integration of functions to meet goals as well as identify and define necessary system enhancements to deploy products and process improvements.

• Resolve variety of high impact problems/projects through in-depth evaluation of complex business processes, system processes, and industry standards.

• Provide expertise in area and advanced knowledge of applications programming and ensure application design adheres to the overall architecture blueprint.

• Utilize advanced knowledge of system flow and develop standards for coding, testing, debugging, and implementation.

• Develop comprehensive knowledge of how areas of business, such as architecture and infrastructure, integrate to accomplish business goals.

• Partner with business to continue to evolve our architecture roadmap beyond near term objectives.

• Provide in-depth analysis with interpretive thinking to define issues and develop innovative solutions.

• Assist in third line support during core trading hours.

• Serve as advisor or coach to mid-level developers and analysts, allocating work as necessary.

• Together with the partner teams, user community, business analysts and Tech management contribute to innovative & best-in-class solutions for our business

Database Engineering responsibilities:

• Design, develop and maintain complex Oracle database solutions to meet business requirements

• Optimize database performance by tuning queries and maintaining indexes

• Ensure data integrity and security by implementing best practices and standard procedures

• Develop stored procedures and triggers to support business requirements

• Provide technical expertise and guidance to junior developers

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to analyze and solve complex database issues

• Participate in code reviews and provide feedback to peers

• Continuously evaluate and improve database processes and procedures

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in Oracle/any relational database development

• Expertise in ORAAS, query optimization, performance tuning, and distributed database design

• Strong knowledge of SQL and PL/SQL programming

• In-depth understanding of database architecture and data modeling principles

• Experience with data warehousing and ETL processes

• Ability to develop complex stored procedures and triggers

Competencies:

• Innovative and Positive ‘Can Do’ attitude

• Ability to make effective judgements on available data / knowledge

• Planning and Organising – Ability to identify the steps to be taken to achieve objectives

• Resilience – Used to working towards tight deadlines, under pressure and using appropriate coping methods to stay focused

• Accountability –self start on goals and achieve targets

• Strong team orientation and commitment to overall team success; willing to go above and beyond to ensure team success; intense customer focus and commitment to driving quality

• Leadership – Strong sense of leadership focusing on achieving team satisfaction and delivery goals.

Education:

• Graduation/Post Graduation qualifications in Computer Engineering (preferable) or any Engineering stream with a very good academic record throughout.

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

Citi Canada is an equal opportunity employer. Accordingly, we will make accommodations to respond to the needs of people with disabilities (including, without limitation, physical and mental health disabilities) during the recruitment process and otherwise in accordance with law. Individuals who view themselves as Aboriginals, members of visible minority or racialized communities, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Development Value:

This position gives an excellent opportunity for the selected candidate to play a significant role in an exciting and critical business within Citi. As a member of our highly acclaimed Technology team, this role provides the opportunity to participate in and shape the expansion and pre-eminence of our Business working together with our team of highly skilled technologists. We believe it is even more special to do this as part of Citi, a premier financial institution that is one of the biggest and best in the market, and as a part of our team that has a high visibility for our work both inside our larger organisation as well as in the global Capital Markets world. The position will enable you to leverage Citi’s incomparable geographical reach, product richness, and engineering expertise and to translate these into a successful and top-of-the-class product offering for our customers.

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Job Family Group:

Technology

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Job Family:

Applications Development

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Time Type:

Full time

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