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:
As an agile senior application developer, the successful candidate will work closely with business users and other members of the development team to provide quality systems that will: improve productivity, decrease operational risk, enable the business to expand and make users smile. They will be working on high profile, largely greenfield applications and will have the opportunity to shape the future technical direction and take ownership for functional components.
Role Responsibilities:
Develop, test, design, manage and support high quality systems
Design and implement every aspect of the system with automation and resilience in mind – automated tests, automated deployment, no-downtime deployments, automated failover, etc...
Continuously aim to improve and optimise our applications and processes to reduce manual intervention, downtimes, and outages.
Build strong relationships with business users through understanding the challenges that they face, then build systems that will allow them to overcome them
Maintain a strong focus on quality and supportability
Be willing and able to adapt to changes in priorities and requirements
Remain open and alert to new technology
opportunities
Development Value:




This is a great opportunity for a strong technologist to join a high-performing and successful development group within a leading, global Investment Bank
The candidate will work closely with technology and Business partner systems across the world and will also gain in-depth knowledge of the Cross Asset Index Business
Knowledge/Experience:
8+ years commercial software development, with a JVM based language
Proven ability to deliver the smallest and simplest simple solutions first before iterating
Proven ability to work well in delivering complex systems in a changing fast paced environment
The ability to develop small self-contained domain specific services
Sound knowledge of application architecture and design
Has previously designed applications that can fail over safely and are easy to monitor and support
Required Skills:
Understanding of test-driven, agile software methodologies and associated tools/technologies
Solid, hands-on experience in solution design, design patterns and data structures
Good understanding of lightweight web technologies (REST endpoints, web-sockets, JSON), and micro-services in a service-orientated ecosystem
Familiarity with modern OO and functional programming practices
Experience with JVM technologies in a highly dynamic and interactive setting essential.




Experience in working front end frameworks/UI development using React/Vue/Angular.
Experience with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB , Couchbase or similar document database is benefit
Experience with Containers a benefit
Nice to have C#/.NET development experience.
Education:
Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience
This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.
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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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Most Relevant Skills
Please see the requirements listed above.
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Other Relevant Skills
For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.
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📌 Senior Application Developer-Chennai
🏢 Citi
📍 Chennai