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Citigroup Tech Lead - Ab Initio / Spark ETL – AVP – C12 - Pune in Pune, India
The Applications Development Senior Programmer Analyst is an intermediate level position responsible for participation in the establishment and implementation of new or revised application systems and programs in coordination with the Technology team. The overall objective of this role is to contribute to applications systems analysis and programming activities.
Key Responsibilities:
Responsible for providing technical leadership of multiple large scale/complex global software solutions
Experience of developing teams of permanent employees and vendors from 5 – 20 developers in size
Build and sustain strong relationships with the senior business leaders associated with the platform
Design, code, test, document and implement application release projects as part of development team.
Work with onsite development partners to ensure design and coding best practices.
Work closely with Program Management and Quality Control teams to deliver quality software to agreed project schedules.
Proactively notify Development Project Manager of risks, bottlenecks, problems, issues, and concerns.
Compliance with Citi's System Development Lifecycle and Information Security requirements.
Oversee development scope, budgets, time line documents
Monitor, update and communicate project timelines and milestones; obtain senior management feedback; understand potential speed bumps and client’s true concerns/needs.
Understanding technology industry trends, how they impact our future solutions and provide strategic direction for the development community.
Drive quality initiatives
Key Challenges:
Managing time and changing priorities in a dynamic environment
Ability to provide quick turnaround to software issues and management requests
Ability to assimilate key issues and concepts and come up to speed quickly
Qualifications and Competencies
BS or MS Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent
Minimum 10 years of Ab Initio application design and development experience
Minimum 6 years of experience in leading globally distributed teams successfully
Demonstrated people and technical management skills
Strong understanding of ETL analysis and design, frameworks on Ab Initio
experience in developing and managing big data solutions using Apache Spark . Having strong hold on Spark-core, Spark-SQL & Spark Streaming
Minimum 6 years of experience in leading globally distributed teams successfully.
Strong programming skills in Scala, Java, or Python .
Hands on experience on Technologies like Apache Hive, Apache Kafka, HBase, Couchbase, Sqoop, Flume etc.
Demonstrated excellent software development skills. Strong experiences in implementation of complex file transformations like positional, xmls.
Experience in building enterprise ETL based system with focus on recovery, stability, reliability, scalability and performance.
Experience in building Multi file system and Serial file system applications and troubleshooting complex issues related to it.
Experience in working on JMS / MQ applications.
Experience in working multiple OS (Unix, Linux, Win)
Experience developing solutions involving ETL any Big Data concepts
Experience in performance tuning of large technical solutions with significant volumes
Strong Database experience (Oracle/PL-SQL)
Understanding of internetworking concepts, firewall, communication protocols is a plus
Knowledge of Web security framework
Key Competencies:
Excellent organization skills, attention to detail, and ability to multi-task
Demonstrated sense of responsibility and capability to deliver quickly
Excellent communication skills. Clearly articulating and documenting technical and functional specifications is a key requirement.
Proactive problem-solver
Relationship builder and team player
Negotiation, difficult conversation management and prioritization skills
Flexibility to handle multiple complex projects and changing priorities
Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills
Good analytical and business skills
Promotes teamwork and builds strong relationships within and across global teams
Promotes continuous process improvement especially in code quality, testability & reliability
Desirable Skills:
Experience in other ETL Tools like Talend or Spark.
Experience of migrating functionality from ETL tools to Spark.
Experience/knowledge on Cloud technologies AWS, GCP.
Experience in Financial industry
ETL Certification, Project Management Certification
Experience with Commercial Cards applications and processes would be advantageous
Experience with Agile methodology
This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.
Job Family Group:
Technology
Job Family:
Applications Development
Time Type:
Full time
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