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Python Senior Developer

Working at Citi is far more than just a job. A career with us means joining a team of more than 230,000 dedicated people from around the globe. At Citi, you'll have the opportunity to grow your career, give back to your community, and make a real impact.

Job Overview

The Prime Analytics team is undertaking multi-year growth initiatives, expanding its platform offering to empower market quants and product development teams. This expansion focuses on leveraging Python for analytics, hosting new data platforms, and building robust monitoring and observability capabilities. We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Assistant Vice President (AVP), Python Developer, to join our team in Tampa, Florida. This role requires strong expertise in Python and Apache Airflow, along with the ability to collaborate directly with market quants and various development teams to build and enhance our analytics platform. You will play a crucial role in delivering innovative technical solutions, contributing to architectural excellence, and providing technical guidance.

Responsibilities

• Technical Contribution & Collaboration: Partner with market quants and various technology teams to ensure the seamless integration of functionalities, achieve strategic goals, and identify system enhancements for new product deployments and process improvements.
• Contribute to the resolution of high-impact problems and projects through in-depth evaluation of complex business processes, system architectures, and industry standards.
• Apply strong expertise in application programming and actively ensure that application designs adhere to the overall architectural blueprint and best practices.
• Utilize advanced knowledge of system flow to contribute to and uphold standards for coding, testing, debugging, and implementation.

Problem Solving & Innovation:

• Develop a comprehensive understanding of how different areas of the business, particularly architecture and infrastructure, integrate to achieve overarching business goals.
• Provide in-depth analysis and interpretive thinking to define complex issues and develop innovative, scalable solutions.

Risk Management & Compliance:

• Appropriately assess risk when technical and business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients, and assets.
• Drive compliance with applicable laws, rules, and regulations, adhere to Policy, apply sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct, and business practices, and escalate, manage, and report control issues with transparency.

Qualifications

• Experience: 3-5 years of hands-on application development experience. 3+ years of dedicated Python application development experience. Proven experience contributing to successful project delivery and technical initiatives.
• Technical Expertise (Required): Core Python: Strong proficiency in Python development, including best practices, object-oriented programming, and performance optimization. Web Services & APIs: Experience developing and consuming RESTful APIs and web services. Frameworks: Hands-on experience with web frameworks, particularly FAST API. Data Formats: Proficient in working with JSON and other data interchange formats. Workflow & Messaging: Experience with Apache Airflow for workflow orchestration and Apache Kafka for real-time data streaming. Cloud & Storage: Experience with cloud storage solutions like Amazon S3. Databases: Solid understanding and experience with relational databases such as SQL Server and Oracle Database. DevOps: Familiarity and experience with cloud-native technologies (e.g., Amazon EKS), containerization (Docker), and CI/CD pipeline implementation. Observability: Experience with observability tech stacks like Grafana for logs, traces, and metrics, as well as OpenTelemetry.
• Technical Expertise (Plus): Experience with advanced data technologies such as Trino, Starburst, Pinot, and Spark.
• Soft Skills & Leadership: Ability to adjust priorities quickly as circumstances dictate and thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. Demonstrated ability to take initiative and ownership, contributing significantly to team success and project outcomes. Strong problem-solving skills with an ability to analyze and resolve complex technical and business challenges. Consistently demonstrates clear, concise, and effective written and verbal communication skills, able to articulate technical concepts clearly to diverse audiences.
• Work Arrangement: Work in the office for three days each week, subject to adjustments based on company policy.

Education

• Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related quantitative field. Master's degree preferred.

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