Citigroup, Inc

Senior Lead (Low Latency Trading Application) - Senior Vice President

Citigroup, Inc • $145K — $217K *
Mississauga, ON L4T 0A1In-Person
Finance & Insurance
8 - 10 years of experience
More than 3 months ago
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
  • 10+ years of extensive experience in software development, architecture, and technical leadership roles, preferably in eTrading.
  • Proven track record of leading and delivering complex, strategic technical initiatives.
  • Minimum of 5 years managing and mentoring technical teams (5+ individuals).
  • Deep understanding of capital markets and financial derivatives, especially Fixed Income products.

Responsibilities

  • Define and articulate the technical vision and strategy for Fixed Income Reference Data systems.
  • Provide architectural direction for scalable and high-performance systems development.
  • Champion engineering best practices to ensure delivery of high-quality software solutions.
  • Stay abreast of emerging technologies and evaluate new strategic initiatives.
  • Act as a technical escalation point for complex challenges, driving resolution.
  • Lead and mentor a team of approximately 10 developers, fostering collaboration and innovation.
  • Build strong relationships with stakeholders to ensure effective communication and alignment.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work in a pivotal role within a leading eTrading platform.
  • Access to cutting-edge technology and innovative projects.
  • Comprehensive professional development opportunities.
  • Collaborative and high-performance work culture.
  • Involvement in shaping the future of eTrading technology.
Full Job Description
Role Overview
We are seeking an accomplished and highly experienced Senior Vice President (SVP), Technical Lead, to drive critical strategic initiatives within our eTrading function in Canada. This pivotal role demands a visionary leader with a deep technical background, proven leadership capabilities, and a track record of delivering complex, high-impact solutions in a fast-paced financial services environment. The SVP will be responsible for defining and executing technical strategy, leading a team of senior developers, and providing significant site-level leadership across the broader eTrading organization.

Rates eTrading Tech Overview
The evolution of electronic trading and automation has changed the way that rates products trade forever; driving a need for real-time, low latency pricing, market making and risk technology. In this increasingly electronic and competitive landscape, Citi is key player due to its leading eTrading platform and investment in technology. The Rates eTrading team is at the forefront, by building high-performance low latency technology that supports the execution of billions of dollars of client trades every day. Our competitive advantage is our technology and having a platform that provides exceptional and dependable trading experience. If you have this kind of vision, capable of seeing ahead, of developing a clear path forward in a quest to try the as yet untried, here is the opportunity.

Key Responsibilities
Senior Technical Leadership & Engineering
  • Strategic Vision: Define and articulate the technical vision and strategy for Fixed Income Reference Data strategic systems and the Solace-based middleware/messaging platform, aligning with overall eTrading and firm-wide objectives.
  • Architectural Guidance: Provide expert architectural direction and oversight for the design, development, and implementation of robust, scalable, and high-performance systems, with a particular focus on the Solace event backbone and related Java components across the department.
  • Technical Excellence: Champion engineering best practices, coding standards, and rigorous testing methodologies to ensure the delivery of high-quality, resilient, and maintainable software solutions. This includes understanding and driving complex design principles, ensuring strong reliability, scalability, and performance of strategic components.
  • Innovation & Research: Stay abreast of emerging technologies, industry trends, and architectural patterns (e.g., event-driven architectures, microservices) to continually enhance our technical capabilities and competitive advantage. Evaluate and lead POCs for new strategic initiatives, driving their conversion into industrial-level solutions.
  • Problem Solving: Act as a critical technical escalation point, driving resolution for complex technical challenges and system performance issues. Apply an engineering mindset to development work, understanding use-cases in detail, developing metrics to estimate volume and velocity requirements, and openly discussing implementation limitations or workarounds.
  • System Design Leadership: Actively lead and contribute to significant system design decisions.

Team Leadership & Development
  • Team Management: Directly lead and mentor a team of approximately 10 highly skilled developers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
  • Talent Development: Identify and nurture talent within the team, providing coaching, performance feedback, and opportunities for professional growth and skill enhancement.
  • Resource Allocation: Manage team resources effectively, ensuring optimal allocation to strategic projects and operational support.
  • Performance Management: Set clear performance objectives, conduct regular reviews, and drive accountability for results across the team.
  • Recruitment & Onboarding: Actively participate in the recruitment of top-tier engineering talent, contributing to the growth and development of the eTrading team.

Site-Level Senior Leadership (eTrading Canada)
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate effectively with peer leaders across various eTrading functions in Canada, contributing to strategic planning, initiative prioritization, and operational excellence.
  • Influence & Advocacy: Represent the technical interests and capabilities of the Fixed Income and Messaging platforms within broader site-level discussions and decision-making forums.
  • Cultural Leadership: Contribute to shaping a positive and high-performance culture across the eTrading Canada site, promoting transparency, accountability, and a client-centric mindset.
  • Stakeholder Management: Build strong relationships with key stakeholders, including business leaders, product managers, operations, and other technology teams, ensuring alignment and effective communication. This includes providing strategic post-release assistance to business, development, and support groups.

Strategic Initiatives
  • Fixed Income Reference Data Strategic Systems:
    • Lead the architectural evolution, design, and implementation of next-generation reference data platforms crucial for Fixed Income trading.
    • Ensure data accuracy, consistency, and timely delivery across various trading systems and downstream consumers.
    • Drive efforts to rationalize, consolidate, and modernize existing reference data infrastructure.
  • Solace-based Middleware/Messaging Platform:
    • Spearhead the design, development, and ongoing enhancement of the enterprise-wide Solace-based event backbone.
    • Oversee the development of platform capabilities that enable seamless event-driven communication across thousands of Java components within the department.
    • Ensure the messaging platform meets stringent requirements for low-latency, high-throughput, reliability, and security.

Qualifications
Education
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
Experience
  • 10+ years of extensive experience in software development, architecture, and technical leadership roles within the financial services industry, preferably in eTrading.
  • Proven track record of leading and successfully delivering complex, strategic technical initiatives.
  • Minimum of 5 years of experience managing and mentoring technical teams (e.g., 5+ individuals).
  • Deep understanding of capital markets and financial derivatives (rates or other).
  • Demonstrated experience with Fixed Income products and reference data systems is highly desirable.
Technical Skills
  • Expert-level proficiency in Java and related ecosystem technologies (e.g., Spring or other dependency injection frameworks).
  • Extensive experience (10+ years) in developing and maintaining highly scalable, real-time, low latency, high-volume microservices.
  • Deep expertise in real-time messaging middleware, specifically Solace, along with other platforms like Kafka, RabbitMQ, Tibco.
  • Profound experience working with multi-threaded applications and designing high-performance concurrent systems.
  • Strong software development fundamentals, data structures, design patterns, Object-Oriented programming, architecture, algorithms, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to lead their application.
  • Experience with system performance tuning and low latency Java programming.
  • Proficiency with application deployment and debugging on UNIX/LINUX.
  • Hands-on experience in database technologies, including RDBMS (Oracle, etc.) and NoSQL (MongoDB).
  • Experience with In-Memory Datastore/Cache libraries (Sol cache, Redis, Apache Ignite, Gemfire, etc.).
  • Extensive experience with CI/CD pipelines, test-driven development (TDD), Unit and End-to-End Testing.

Leadership & Soft Skills
  • Exceptional leadership, communication (strong verbal and written), and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and inspire diverse teams and face off with business users.
  • Self-motivated individual with strong determination to achieve goals.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Excellent team-working skills and ability to work effectively in a distributed global team environment.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment; flexible and able to deliver quality results in the required timeframe.
  • Strong strategic thinking and problem-solving abilities.
  • Ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Proven ability to drive change and innovation in a large enterprise environment.
  • High degree of professionalism, integrity, and personal accountability.

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

Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:
$145,100.00 - $217,700.00

Most Relevant Skills
Please see the requirements listed above.

Other Relevant Skills
For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

Automated Processing and AI

We use automated processing, including artificial intelligence, for our legitimate business interests (or our reasonable and appropriate business purposes) to identify and align the candidate's skills and abilities with a specific job opening. Additionally, if you so choose, or consent, we can match your skills and abilities to other suitable roles at Citi.

Importantly, all our hiring processes and decisions, including determining your suitability for a role, are conducted, checked, and decided by individuals. Our automated processing and AI do not involve relying on automatic or autonomous decision-making. Please refer to any Jurisdictional Considerations, with specific provisions for your country (where relevant) for further details.

This job opening is for an existing job vacancy.

About Citigroup, Inc

Citigroup is a financial services holding company that provides financial products and services. The company operates through two segments, Global Consumer Banking (GCB) and Institutional Clients Group (ICG). The GCB segment offers traditional banking services to retail customers through retail banking, commercial banking, Citi-branded cards, and Citi retail services. The ICG segment offers various banking, and financial products and services to corporate, institutional, public sector, and high-net-worth clients. This segment provides wholesale banking products and services, including fixed-income and equity sales and trading, foreign exchange, prime brokerage, derivative services, equity and fixed-income research, corporate lending, investment banking, and advisory services, private banking, cash management, trade finance, and securities services. Citi is committed to sustainability and social responsibility, and the company invests in initiatives that promote economic progress.

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Market Cap
$1.3 billion
Industry
Finance & Insurance
Net Income
$89.6 million
Founded
1812
5 Year Trend
+4.6%
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