Global Fixed Income Electronic Trading and Algo Technology Lead - Managing Director

The newly formed Fixed Income (FI) Electronic Trading Technology team is seeking a highly motivated hands-on Global Lead with a proven track record of delivering high quality software and trading applications to a diverse set of stakeholders.

This newly formed team will be part of the Markets Technology Organization reporting dually into the Global Head of Rates and GSP Electronic Trading Technology leads and will be responsible to build, maintain and support common strategic electronic trading components while closely partnering and supporting asset class specific eTrading teams to build and roll them out to production.

In addition, this team will also be responsible to increase adoption of other common low latency tech components/framework built by the Markets Low Latency Platform team.

The successful candidate in this role will be responsible for building a global team to define & build the common architecture for FI eTrading. This role provides the candidate the ability to experiment with new technologies, evaluate Vendor/Fintech products and design a common platform that can serve multiple asset classes while working in a flexible (Hybrid) and inclusive work environment. In this role the candidate will have the opportunity to influence every aspect of software development - design, buildout, testing automation, devops and monitoring.

Responsibilities:

• Common FIX API & routing/normalization layer (Blackbird)
• Key Vendor management for FIX connectivity
• Low-latency common FI eTrading container
• Development of Common eTrading services e.g. STP

Investigating and analyzing good candidates for synergies between:

• Low latency engineering principles
• Networking and hardware optimizaition
• Strategy development and testing
• Trading Tool UI and data tool

Team Management

• Line management of global team resources
• Responsible for execution against hiring plan, filling all critical roles per planned timeline
• Coordination of monthly tech team meetings

Stakeholder Management

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, and ability to influence global tech and business stakeholders
• Ability to prioritize in an ambiguous environment and drive impactful deliveries across a diverse set of stakeholders

Knowledge/Experience:

• Strong academic record, ideally with a Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science,
• Information Science, engineering or related technical or quantitative discipline.
• Demonstrable success in designing and delivering multi-tiered applications for trading systems at a global scale
• Experience of building and leading teams, ideally with a global resource profile
• Demonstrated ability to deliver large projects efficiently and on time
• Strong Software development fundamentals, data structures, design patterns, Object-Oriented
• programming, architecture, algorithms, and problem-solving skills
• Strong focus on system performance tuning and experience with low latency Java programming
• Solid understanding of service architecture and high performance, low latency, and multithreading techniques
• Experience architecting and designing high performance server side components.
• Extensive experience using Java to develop service oriented applications
• Knowledge of any Fixed income financial products (e.g. Rates, Currencies, and Spread Products) is highly desirable
• Technical skills include Java, Rust, TDD, KDB, FIX, Docker, OpenShift, Kubernetes and UNIX/LINUX

Competencies:

• Strong verbal and written communication skills; ability to face off to various stakeholders
• Self-motivated individual and with determination to achieve goals
• Willingness to learn, both technically and professionally
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Good team working skills and ability to work in a distributed global team environment
• Ability to work on a fast-pace environment; Flexible and able to deliver quality results in the
• required timeframe

Time Allocation:

• 25% - Overseeing Development and code reviews
• 25% - Technology Transformation
• 25% - Organization & Leading Highly Motivated Engineers
• 25% - Support & Maintenance

Job Family Group:
Technology

Job Family:
Applications Development

Time Type:
Full time

Primary Location:
New York New York United States

Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:
$250,000.00 - $500,000.00

In addition to salary, Citi's offerings may also include, for eligible employees, discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards. Citi offers competitive employee benefits, including: medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs. Citi also offers paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays. For additional information regarding Citi employee benefits, please visit citibenefits.com. Available offerings may vary by jurisdiction, job level, and date of hire.

Anticipated Posting Close Date:
May 07, 2025

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