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  • London, UK
  • £90k - 110k
  • 10 Mar 2020

Job description

Who is Upp?

The world of retail changed forever when the world went online. Now competition is fiercer than ever, and businesses are struggling to survive. Why?

Firstly, companies struggle to drive revenue across multiple channels. Amazon, eBay, and Google all categorise, list and sell products differently so it’s hard to effectively sell on more than one channel. Secondly, companies still focus too heavily on revenue generation. On average, across an entire product range the company profit will be driven by only 30% of their products, the remaining 70% is sold at cost or loss.

Upp wants to help both local retailers and global multinationals to not only survive in this market but thrive, by enabling them to not only drive revenue more effectively across multiple channels but also to allow businesses to understand their profitability at an individual product level.

 The Upp journey so far:

Upp focused on building their first module, their “Intelligent Listing Engine”. This addressed the challenge with selling products across multiple channels. Retailers can plug into the Upp platform, the platform ingests all of their data effortlessly, it figures out what data is missing using machine learning, it uses image processing to enrich the product data, and it then lists the products on multiple channels intelligently adjusting the listing depending on how that channel works. This allowed products to be listed 40x fast than traditional methods whilst, improving product visibility and increasing sales margins.

As Upp started plugging customers in to their platform, they discovered a more deep-rooted challenge for these businesses. Companies focused on revenue generation as a key business metric and their teams’ performance was measured in this way. Businesses with high revenue figures struggled because they didn’t have visibility of which of their products were selling at a cost or a profit. This is why local independents to global multinational retailers struggle alike to survive, they don’t have visibility of profit margins at a macro level.

Upp are now building a second module, their “Intelligent Margin Hub” to allow retailers to have macro visibility of their data and provide actionable insights.

The Upp mission:

To save retailers, small and large, by giving them access to data and insights that allows them to improve profitability and win more customers.

Company Overview:

Current Snapshot:

Upp is a mission led startup looking to address a core challenge within one of the largest business sectors in the world, online retail. They are focused on developing and constantly improving the two core components of their product.  

Upp has 25 employees based in their London office in Fitzrovia; with large open plan spaces great for collaboration, meetups and product demos, and obviously the obligatory beer fridge. Although the office space is great, it is the culture and sense of purpose that shines through.

For now, Upp is focused on increasing the number of paying customers using their “Intelligent Listing Engine”. Whilst the “Intelligent Margin Hub” is at Beta stage with a small number of businesses.

The company is well funded, in late 2021 Upp will either look to raise their Series B or be profitable. At this point the company will be heavily scaling, both in terms of customers acquisition and hiring within the product engineering function.

 The Product:

Overview:

The Upp platform enables retailers to drive macro business outcomes by combining marketing, ecommerce and business data to win more customers and improve profitability.

 Upp uses machine learning to enrich product titles, attributes and descriptions so they’re found by more consumers. Upp intelligently lists your products on Google Shopping and Amazon 40x faster than traditional methods while improving your product visibility and effectively increasing your sales and margin.

Beyond product listing capabilities, Upp empowers ecommerce and digital marketing teams to make smart online retail decisions, by giving them SKU level margin visibility and providing insights and actions to drive the best results. Upp aligns your teams around the bigger picture by simply connecting silos of data from across the business and helping the team stay focused on profitability.

 Upp currently has two modules:

  1. Intelligent Listing Engine:
  • Taking product information and intelligently optimizing it for Google Shopping to drive revenue and profitability
  • Improving your product visibility by enriching product titles and attributes to ensure your product is seen more and the customer experience improves
  1. Intelligent Margin Hub:
  • Providing SKU level margin visibility, insights and actions to optimize digital marketing spend and increase profitability
  • Simply connects business and marketing data from the across the business to provide insights and focus on the right metrics

 Product Roadmap for 2020

In 2019 the focus was getting the Listing Engine production ready whilst building starting to build the Margin Hub module. There was also a focus on consolidating and simplifying the architecture and tech stack to allow for both rapid feature development and building reliable, secure code.

The product roadmap for 2020:

  1. Intelligent Listing Engine:
  • Improve/mature current features:
    • Improve the management of products across channels
    • Add in social channels
    • Improving the data enrichment process
    • Introducing more self-service features
  • Continuing to take customer feedback to drive new feature development
  • Focusing on performance and scalability as the customer base grows
  1. Intelligent Margin Hub:
  • Taking Margin Hub from MVP to Production, whilst onboarding live customers.
  • Integrate into retailers back office platforms
  • Report SKU level margin performance
  • Integrate with external data sources to identify trends
  • Use machine learning to generate “recommend” actions to improve profit margins

Product Engineering:

Team Structure

The Product Engineering function is 20 strong. Drew heads up Product, with a team of Product Owners and Designers. Ben heads up Engineering, leading 3 lean cross-functional teams.

The engineering squads are aligned to the product modules:

  • Intelligent Listing Engine
  • Intelligent Margin Hub
  • Product data – metadata and modelling

Upp has 2 core squads, each squad is a cross functional team that consists of Front and Backend Developers, QA engineers, DevOps engineers, and Data Scientists. Each squad is headed up by a Product Owner and Lead Developer that guide and inspire the squad, Upp describe the PO and Lead Dev, as the CPO and CTO of the squad.

Each squad has their own focused backlog and they work to fortnightly sprints. The features worked on cut across the entire stack. Each squad has their own designer and frontend engineer, but developers will still be able to work full stack and have input into product design. DevOps responsibilities are shared across the squads as well.

The focus for the first half of 2020 is on the product and customer acquisition, the second half of the year will be focused on scaling the product engineering function.

Stack:

  • Backend: Java, Spring Boot, Kotlin, Microservices Architecture, GraphQL, Kafka.
  • Frontend: React, JavaScript, HTML, CSS
  • Database: MongoDB, Neo4j.
  • Cloud & DevOps: AWS, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Packer, Ansible

Lead Developer

Your Role:

You will be taking over as Lead Developer of the Margin Hub team. Margin Hub is in MVP state and the focus is now getting this production ready. Margin Hub will be the largest revenue generator for Upp, so you’ll be taking over a critical part of the platform with a strategic focus from the exec team.

Your role will split between hands on and leadership.

  • 80% hands on – leading on architectural decisions, overseeing execution and being an individual contributor. You will be the technical SME for the team.
  • 20% leadership – line management of the team (monthly meetings, OKR’s) and mentoring the team on technical decision making. This will be closely supported by the Director of Engineering.

You will work closely with the Product Owner to ensure product and engineering are aligned, agree priorities and ensure delivery is on track.

You will also be tasked with owning the architecture and ensuring that Margin Hub is designed and built in a robust and scalable way.

The team are all London based and form a close knit unit.  

What you will be tasked with:

  • You will lead the squad and have overall accountability for the product delivery.
  • You will form a close partnership with the Product Owner to ensure consistency from Product Research/Design to Delivery.
  • Your will inspire the team to challenge what is technically possible and enable those around you.
  • You will educate and mentor the squad on technical decision making, maturing their understanding of trade-offs.
  • You will review the current state of the product and drive technical innovation.
  • You will be able to architect the product with resilience, performance and scalability in mind.
  • You will own the architecture, tech and tooling.

What Upp are looking for in you:

Non-negotiables – soft skills:

  • An interest in product and startups. Working with a small team to take a new offering to market excites you. You understand user needs, market positioning and how that flows into product build.
  • Mission led. Someone who buys into the mission of a company and the problem they are solving. Upp are growing fast and have a tonne of things they need to achieve, they want people that are bought in for the long term and believe in what they’re doing.
  • Pragmatic thinker. You have a structured approach to situations, if you don’t know the answer, you’ll know how to find it out.
  • Open to change. You are able to work in a fast paced environments where priorities can change instantly, and you are able to adjust.
  • Technologist. Someone that understands technology on a deeper level, you will have worked with different architectural patterns and programming languages and understand why different tools work better for different situations.

Non-negotiables – tech skills:

  • Strong experience in Java, Spring and Microservices development.
  • Strong experience on platform integration. Margin Hub needs to integrate with multiple customer platforms. Upp have just invested in Cloud Elements as the key integration tool.  
  • Solid on code quality and testing, and DevOps.
  • Strong on architectural principles, ideally Event Sourcing and CQRS.
  • Ability to mentor others on technical decision making on the Upp tech stack.

 Nice to haves:

  • Experience with Kotlin.
  • Hands on DevOps/infrastructure experience.

What you will achieve in your first six months:

  • Built strong relationships with the team and be the go-to person for help and support.
  • Have led the Margin Hub product to be production ready and have multiple customers on the platform.
  • Have led the architecture and design of the platform, as well as contributed to the codebase.
  • Reviewed and improved aspects of the architecture, stack and tooling.
  • Matured the decision making of the team  and helped make them better engineers.
  • Have recruited strong engineers to join the team.

How your role will evolve:

Upp expect to grow significantly in Q4 2020/Q1 2021, which will means more product teams. The two opportunities this will likely present to you is:

  • Principal Engineer; an overarching role to own the tech stack for Upp.
  • Engineering Manager/Head of; if you would be interested in the people management route.

The Package and Benefits:

  • £90-110,000 basic salary + 10% bonus (paid quarterly)
  • Tech of your choice
  • 25 days annual leave plus your birthday off
  • Pension Scheme
  • Free breakfasts, strong coffee, fully stacked fridge with drinks and snacks.
  • Other perks: free mobile phone insurance, cinema discounts, eyecare voucher scheme, employee assistance programme.

Interview process:

1 stage, 1.5 hour interview process 

  • London, UK
  • £90k - 110k
  • 10 Mar 2020

Job description

Who is Upp?

The world of retail changed forever when the world went online. Now competition is fiercer than ever, and businesses are struggling to survive. Why?

Firstly, companies struggle to drive revenue across multiple channels. Amazon, eBay, and Google all categorise, list and sell products differently so it’s hard to effectively sell on more than one channel. Secondly, companies still focus too heavily on revenue generation. On average, across an entire product range the company profit will be driven by only 30% of their products, the remaining 70% is sold at cost or loss.

Upp wants to help both local retailers and global multinationals to not only survive in this market but thrive, by enabling them to not only drive revenue more effectively across multiple channels but also to allow businesses to understand their profitability at an individual product level.

 The Upp journey so far:

Upp focused on building their first module, their “Intelligent Listing Engine”. This addressed the challenge with selling products across multiple channels. Retailers can plug into the Upp platform, the platform ingests all of their data effortlessly, it figures out what data is missing using machine learning, it uses image processing to enrich the product data, and it then lists the products on multiple channels intelligently adjusting the listing depending on how that channel works. This allowed products to be listed 40x fast than traditional methods whilst, improving product visibility and increasing sales margins.

As Upp started plugging customers in to their platform, they discovered a more deep-rooted challenge for these businesses. Companies focused on revenue generation as a key business metric and their teams’ performance was measured in this way. Businesses with high revenue figures struggled because they didn’t have visibility of which of their products were selling at a cost or a profit. This is why local independents to global multinational retailers struggle alike to survive, they don’t have visibility of profit margins at a macro level.

Upp are now building a second module, their “Intelligent Margin Hub” to allow retailers to have macro visibility of their data and provide actionable insights.

The Upp mission:

To save retailers, small and large, by giving them access to data and insights that allows them to improve profitability and win more customers.

Company Overview:

Current Snapshot:

Upp is a mission led startup looking to address a core challenge within one of the largest business sectors in the world, online retail. They are focused on developing and constantly improving the two core components of their product.  

Upp has 25 employees based in their London office in Fitzrovia; with large open plan spaces great for collaboration, meetups and product demos, and obviously the obligatory beer fridge. Although the office space is great, it is the culture and sense of purpose that shines through.

For now, Upp is focused on increasing the number of paying customers using their “Intelligent Listing Engine”. Whilst the “Intelligent Margin Hub” is at Beta stage with a small number of businesses.

The company is well funded, in late 2021 Upp will either look to raise their Series B or be profitable. At this point the company will be heavily scaling, both in terms of customers acquisition and hiring within the product engineering function.

 The Product:

Overview:

The Upp platform enables retailers to drive macro business outcomes by combining marketing, ecommerce and business data to win more customers and improve profitability.

 Upp uses machine learning to enrich product titles, attributes and descriptions so they’re found by more consumers. Upp intelligently lists your products on Google Shopping and Amazon 40x faster than traditional methods while improving your product visibility and effectively increasing your sales and margin.

Beyond product listing capabilities, Upp empowers ecommerce and digital marketing teams to make smart online retail decisions, by giving them SKU level margin visibility and providing insights and actions to drive the best results. Upp aligns your teams around the bigger picture by simply connecting silos of data from across the business and helping the team stay focused on profitability.

 Upp currently has two modules:

  1. Intelligent Listing Engine:
  • Taking product information and intelligently optimizing it for Google Shopping to drive revenue and profitability
  • Improving your product visibility by enriching product titles and attributes to ensure your product is seen more and the customer experience improves
  1. Intelligent Margin Hub:
  • Providing SKU level margin visibility, insights and actions to optimize digital marketing spend and increase profitability
  • Simply connects business and marketing data from the across the business to provide insights and focus on the right metrics

 Product Roadmap for 2020

In 2019 the focus was getting the Listing Engine production ready whilst building starting to build the Margin Hub module. There was also a focus on consolidating and simplifying the architecture and tech stack to allow for both rapid feature development and building reliable, secure code.

The product roadmap for 2020:

  1. Intelligent Listing Engine:
  • Improve/mature current features:
    • Improve the management of products across channels
    • Add in social channels
    • Improving the data enrichment process
    • Introducing more self-service features
  • Continuing to take customer feedback to drive new feature development
  • Focusing on performance and scalability as the customer base grows
  1. Intelligent Margin Hub:
  • Taking Margin Hub from MVP to Production, whilst onboarding live customers.
  • Integrate into retailers back office platforms
  • Report SKU level margin performance
  • Integrate with external data sources to identify trends
  • Use machine learning to generate “recommend” actions to improve profit margins

Product Engineering:

Team Structure

The Product Engineering function is 20 strong. Drew heads up Product, with a team of Product Owners and Designers. Ben heads up Engineering, leading 3 lean cross-functional teams.

The engineering squads are aligned to the product modules:

  • Intelligent Listing Engine
  • Intelligent Margin Hub
  • Product data – metadata and modelling

Upp has 2 core squads, each squad is a cross functional team that consists of Front and Backend Developers, QA engineers, DevOps engineers, and Data Scientists. Each squad is headed up by a Product Owner and Lead Developer that guide and inspire the squad, Upp describe the PO and Lead Dev, as the CPO and CTO of the squad.

Each squad has their own focused backlog and they work to fortnightly sprints. The features worked on cut across the entire stack. Each squad has their own designer and frontend engineer, but developers will still be able to work full stack and have input into product design. DevOps responsibilities are shared across the squads as well.

The focus for the first half of 2020 is on the product and customer acquisition, the second half of the year will be focused on scaling the product engineering function.

Stack:

  • Backend: Java, Spring Boot, Kotlin, Microservices Architecture, GraphQL, Kafka.
  • Frontend: React, JavaScript, HTML, CSS
  • Database: MongoDB, Neo4j.
  • Cloud & DevOps: AWS, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Packer, Ansible

Lead Developer

Your Role:

You will be taking over as Lead Developer of the Margin Hub team. Margin Hub is in MVP state and the focus is now getting this production ready. Margin Hub will be the largest revenue generator for Upp, so you’ll be taking over a critical part of the platform with a strategic focus from the exec team.

Your role will split between hands on and leadership.

  • 80% hands on – leading on architectural decisions, overseeing execution and being an individual contributor. You will be the technical SME for the team.
  • 20% leadership – line management of the team (monthly meetings, OKR’s) and mentoring the team on technical decision making. This will be closely supported by the Director of Engineering.

You will work closely with the Product Owner to ensure product and engineering are aligned, agree priorities and ensure delivery is on track.

You will also be tasked with owning the architecture and ensuring that Margin Hub is designed and built in a robust and scalable way.

The team are all London based and form a close knit unit.  

What you will be tasked with:

  • You will lead the squad and have overall accountability for the product delivery.
  • You will form a close partnership with the Product Owner to ensure consistency from Product Research/Design to Delivery.
  • Your will inspire the team to challenge what is technically possible and enable those around you.
  • You will educate and mentor the squad on technical decision making, maturing their understanding of trade-offs.
  • You will review the current state of the product and drive technical innovation.
  • You will be able to architect the product with resilience, performance and scalability in mind.
  • You will own the architecture, tech and tooling.

What Upp are looking for in you:

Non-negotiables – soft skills:

  • An interest in product and startups. Working with a small team to take a new offering to market excites you. You understand user needs, market positioning and how that flows into product build.
  • Mission led. Someone who buys into the mission of a company and the problem they are solving. Upp are growing fast and have a tonne of things they need to achieve, they want people that are bought in for the long term and believe in what they’re doing.
  • Pragmatic thinker. You have a structured approach to situations, if you don’t know the answer, you’ll know how to find it out.
  • Open to change. You are able to work in a fast paced environments where priorities can change instantly, and you are able to adjust.
  • Technologist. Someone that understands technology on a deeper level, you will have worked with different architectural patterns and programming languages and understand why different tools work better for different situations.

Non-negotiables – tech skills:

  • Strong experience in Java, Spring and Microservices development.
  • Strong experience on platform integration. Margin Hub needs to integrate with multiple customer platforms. Upp have just invested in Cloud Elements as the key integration tool.  
  • Solid on code quality and testing, and DevOps.
  • Strong on architectural principles, ideally Event Sourcing and CQRS.
  • Ability to mentor others on technical decision making on the Upp tech stack.

 Nice to haves:

  • Experience with Kotlin.
  • Hands on DevOps/infrastructure experience.

What you will achieve in your first six months:

  • Built strong relationships with the team and be the go-to person for help and support.
  • Have led the Margin Hub product to be production ready and have multiple customers on the platform.
  • Have led the architecture and design of the platform, as well as contributed to the codebase.
  • Reviewed and improved aspects of the architecture, stack and tooling.
  • Matured the decision making of the team  and helped make them better engineers.
  • Have recruited strong engineers to join the team.

How your role will evolve:

Upp expect to grow significantly in Q4 2020/Q1 2021, which will means more product teams. The two opportunities this will likely present to you is:

  • Principal Engineer; an overarching role to own the tech stack for Upp.
  • Engineering Manager/Head of; if you would be interested in the people management route.

The Package and Benefits:

  • £90-110,000 basic salary + 10% bonus (paid quarterly)
  • Tech of your choice
  • 25 days annual leave plus your birthday off
  • Pension Scheme
  • Free breakfasts, strong coffee, fully stacked fridge with drinks and snacks.
  • Other perks: free mobile phone insurance, cinema discounts, eyecare voucher scheme, employee assistance programme.

Interview process:

1 stage, 1.5 hour interview process 

  • London, England, United Kingdom
  • Competitive
    • Permanent
  • 10 Mar 2020
Junior Software Developer - London
Systematic hedge fund based in central London are looking for a junior software developer specializing in C# and .NET. This hedge fund's core strengths are research and technology, so you'll be making a direct impact. You will be in a challenging working environment alongside a strong team of investment professionals, so you'll need excellent communication skills.

Many of the projects you will be working on are in a greenfield environment, so you'll be able to make your mark in the development world early on as you'll be creating and maintaining your own applications.

Requirements:
  • At least 1 year's commercial experience with C#, .NET and SQL
  • Fluency in English - excellent communication skills are vital
  • At least a BSc. in Computer Science or relevant equivalent degree
  • This is a non-smoking company - you must not be a smoker in order to apply

Desired:
  • Web technology experience - HTML, CSS, ASP.NET, etc.
  • Experience in developing multi-threaded applications
  • Network programming experience
  • The ability and willingness to work occasional weekends

Benefits:
  • Competitive salary
  • Lucrative bonus structure
  • Great office with London skyline views


Contact
If this sounds like an opportunity you'd like to apply for, don't hesitate to contact me:

Tom Gardner
tom.gardner@oxfordknight.co.uk
07557 028165
linkedin.com/in/thomas-gardner-b1930a188

  • London, England, United Kingdom
  • Competitive
    • Permanent
  • 10 Mar 2020
Junior Software Developer - London
Systematic hedge fund based in central London are looking for a junior software developer specializing in C# and .NET. This hedge fund's core strengths are research and technology, so you'll be making a direct impact. You will be in a challenging working environment alongside a strong team of investment professionals, so you'll need excellent communication skills.

Many of the projects you will be working on are in a greenfield environment, so you'll be able to make your mark in the development world early on as you'll be creating and maintaining your own applications.

Requirements:
  • At least 1 year's commercial experience with C#, .NET and SQL
  • Fluency in English - excellent communication skills are vital
  • At least a BSc. in Computer Science or relevant equivalent degree
  • This is a non-smoking company - you must not be a smoker in order to apply

Desired:
  • Web technology experience - HTML, CSS, ASP.NET, etc.
  • Experience in developing multi-threaded applications
  • Network programming experience
  • The ability and willingness to work occasional weekends

Benefits:
  • Competitive salary
  • Lucrative bonus structure
  • Great office with London skyline views


Contact
If this sounds like an opportunity you'd like to apply for, don't hesitate to contact me:

Tom Gardner
tom.gardner@oxfordknight.co.uk
07557 028165
linkedin.com/in/thomas-gardner-b1930a188

  • London, United Kingdom
  • 10 Mar 2020

Citi are looking to hire a new team to work on a greenfield project to rebuild an existing market making platform within their structured productsplatform. The small, co-located development team self-organise their work, speaking directly with business users across the globe. The team has autonomy over technology decisions, owns the continuous delivery pipeline through to production and releases twice a week.

Job Background/Context:

Citi are undertaking a multi-year initiative to upgrade their Multi-Asset Group (MAG) front-to-back infrastructure. The IT team is a key partner to the business and is a major contributor to its success and future growth. To support the MAG Business Growth plan additional funding is being invested in technology and a number of new and exciting projects have been initiated. In line with this initiative, the Global Equities Technology Department is currently looking to hire an experienced developer in London to become a key member of the Global MAG technology team.

The legacy platform is a mixture of C++ and .Net monolith components backed by a mongo database with a WinForms UI

Role Responsibilities

• Develop software iteratively, from an idea through to production

• Collaborate with the rest of the team, frequently pairing

• Build strong relationships with business users through understanding the challenges that they face, then build systems that will allow them to overcome them.

Technology Skills Desired:

The replacement platform is expected to be built using a Kotlin/Java8 micro service architecture and be deployed within Kubernetes/Openshift containers. Best practices around DevOps techniques are expected to be utilized with real-time monitoring and metrics part of the key deliverables

The application will also need a new user interface building in React/Redux in line with other applications in the estate so front to back skills are highly desirable

The development team are looking for someone who is familiar with some of these technologies, with an interest in learning. They also practice fully automated testing, continuous integration and trunk based development. Experience in UX and design is highly valued.

Qualifications:

Industry experience of programming in Kotlin/Java8

Valuing Diversity:

Demonstrates an appreciation of a diverse workforce. Appreciates differences in style or perspective and uses differences to add value to decisions or actions and organisational success.

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Citi is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.
Minority/Female/Veteran/Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity.

Citigroup Inc. and its subsidiaries ("Citi”) invite all qualified interested applicants to apply for career opportunities. If you are a person with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to use our search tools and/or apply for a career opportunity HTML" target="_blank">CLICK HERE.

To view the "EEO is the Law" poster CLICK HERE. To view the EEO is the Law Supplement CLICK HERE.
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  • London, United Kingdom
  • 10 Mar 2020

Citi are looking to hire a new team to work on a greenfield project to rebuild an existing market making platform within their structured productsplatform. The small, co-located development team self-organise their work, speaking directly with business users across the globe. The team has autonomy over technology decisions, owns the continuous delivery pipeline through to production and releases twice a week.

Job Background/Context:

Citi are undertaking a multi-year initiative to upgrade their Multi-Asset Group (MAG) front-to-back infrastructure. The IT team is a key partner to the business and is a major contributor to its success and future growth. To support the MAG Business Growth plan additional funding is being invested in technology and a number of new and exciting projects have been initiated. In line with this initiative, the Global Equities Technology Department is currently looking to hire an experienced developer in London to become a key member of the Global MAG technology team.

The legacy platform is a mixture of C++ and .Net monolith components backed by a mongo database with a WinForms UI

Role Responsibilities

• Develop software iteratively, from an idea through to production

• Collaborate with the rest of the team, frequently pairing

• Build strong relationships with business users through understanding the challenges that they face, then build systems that will allow them to overcome them.

Technology Skills Desired:

The replacement platform is expected to be built using a Kotlin/Java8 micro service architecture and be deployed within Kubernetes/Openshift containers. Best practices around DevOps techniques are expected to be utilized with real-time monitoring and metrics part of the key deliverables

The application will also need a new user interface building in React/Redux in line with other applications in the estate so front to back skills are highly desirable

The development team are looking for someone who is familiar with some of these technologies, with an interest in learning. They also practice fully automated testing, continuous integration and trunk based development. Experience in UX and design is highly valued.

Qualifications:

Industry experience of programming in Kotlin/Java8

Valuing Diversity:

Demonstrates an appreciation of a diverse workforce. Appreciates differences in style or perspective and uses differences to add value to decisions or actions and organisational success.

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Grade :All Job Level - All Job FunctionsAll Job Level - All Job Functions - GB

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Time Type :

------------------------------------------------------

Citi is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.
Minority/Female/Veteran/Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity.

Citigroup Inc. and its subsidiaries ("Citi”) invite all qualified interested applicants to apply for career opportunities. If you are a person with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to use our search tools and/or apply for a career opportunity HTML" target="_blank">CLICK HERE.

To view the "EEO is the Law" poster CLICK HERE. To view the EEO is the Law Supplement CLICK HERE.
To view the EEO Policy Statement CLICK HERE.
To view the Pay Transparency Posting CLICK HERE.

  • London, United Kingdom
  • 10 Mar 2020

Key Responsibilities:

You will be responsible for analysing project issues, producing project artefacts (such as Business Requirement and Test Strategy documentation) and driving the implementation of the defined solution. You will work on multiple projects simultaneously and carry out Project Management activities. Your responsibilities will include:

  • Understanding business priorities, documenting requirements and determining solutions in partnership with the vendors/internal teams
  • Working hands-on with vendor and internal systems to ensure the trading platform is up to date with the latest offerings
  • Developing test strategies, documenting test scenarios and executing test scripts
  • Developing and maintaining the project plan either independently or in collaboration with team members
  • Tracking and maintaining Change Request documentation to ensure that all additional requirements are traceable
  • Identifying and communicating key project risks, defining mitigation strategies and managing resolution
  • Identifying and communicating inter-project dependencies to stakeholders and other project team members
  • Collaborating with global partners to manage infrastructure and software dependencies
  • Organizing and delivering functional presentations in stakeholder meetings
  • Facilitating meetings with the appropriate subject matter experts to obtain specifics on requirements
  • Liaising with Operations and Front Office staff to ensure that required project artefacts are collated
  • Liaising with Technology staff to ensure that requirements are understood and that functional and design proposals are fit for purpose
  • Liaising with Compliance, Risk & Controls functions to ensure adherence to Citi’s low touch electronic trading activity and policy and regulatory & internal controls requirements
  • Identifying and communicating inter-project dependencies to stakeholders and other project team members
  • Ensuring that materials developed can be re-used
  • Utilizing approved methodology and tools for Business Analysis
  • Liaising with e-Trading project members globally to achieve consistent, best-in-class documentation standards
  • Leading peer reviews and inspections of requirement documents
  • Assist in the production of business cases, ensuring that all projects have a viable business proposition
  • Lead and manage continual requirements for regulatory & control related documentation, both internally and vendor focussed.

Development Value:

  • Exposure to global stakeholders
  • Futures Electronic Execution, Algorithmic Trading and Transaction Cost Analysis Product knowledge
  • Opportunity to interact with cross-functional internal teams across multiple levels as well as interaction with external vendors

Knowledge/Experience:

  • Strong Business Analysis & Project Management experience
  • Strong understanding F&O products and processes
  • Practical experience in analysis/design/implementation of successful projects in the Futures front office area
  • Good understanding of regulatory obligations for electronic trading
  • Experience of defining/documenting business strategies/requirements
  • Good understanding of the FIX protocol
  • Strong understanding of Execution Algorithms
  • Good understanding of Market micro-structure, Order Types, Trading Benchmarks and Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA)
  • Hands-on experience in analysing trade data and designing TCA workflows from a data standpoint
  • Experience in developing test strategies and coordinating with QA teams
  • Vendor Management

Skills:

This role forms part of a major global program and as such requires other, broader responsibilities and requisite skills:

  • Inter-regional responsibilities – e.g. responsible for delivering projects for stakeholders in all regions
  • Collaboration with the business at a senior level – this program has detailed Director level interaction with the business on a daily basis as our business partners go through a process of discovery about the detail of the design and implementation
  • Collaboration with global partners – e.g. manage the dependencies on other IT groups, e.g. Infrastructure and Equities technology
  • Direct responsibility for relationships with external suppliers and vendors – the projects in this space are delivered in large part via a multi-million-dollar contract with a vendor
  • Strong inter-personal skills to manage stakeholder expectations and excellent problem solving skills to develop solutions.

Competencies

  • Strong analytical/problem solving skills
  • Good organizational skills to manage project delivery
  • Flexible communication style for multi-geography stakeholder groups
  • Strong oral/written communication skills and ability to facilitate discussions
  • Manage tight deadlines or unexpected requirement changes
  • Team player in a solid/matrix reporting organization
  • Willingness to ask questions, challenge the process and seek out answers
  • Ability to work independently, multi-task, take ownership and drive strategy

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Minority/Female/Veteran/Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity.

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  • London, United Kingdom
  • 10 Mar 2020

Key Responsibilities:

You will be responsible for analysing project issues, producing project artefacts (such as Business Requirement and Test Strategy documentation) and driving the implementation of the defined solution. You will work on multiple projects simultaneously and carry out Project Management activities. Your responsibilities will include:

  • Understanding business priorities, documenting requirements and determining solutions in partnership with the vendors/internal teams
  • Working hands-on with vendor and internal systems to ensure the trading platform is up to date with the latest offerings
  • Developing test strategies, documenting test scenarios and executing test scripts
  • Developing and maintaining the project plan either independently or in collaboration with team members
  • Tracking and maintaining Change Request documentation to ensure that all additional requirements are traceable
  • Identifying and communicating key project risks, defining mitigation strategies and managing resolution
  • Identifying and communicating inter-project dependencies to stakeholders and other project team members
  • Collaborating with global partners to manage infrastructure and software dependencies
  • Organizing and delivering functional presentations in stakeholder meetings
  • Facilitating meetings with the appropriate subject matter experts to obtain specifics on requirements
  • Liaising with Operations and Front Office staff to ensure that required project artefacts are collated
  • Liaising with Technology staff to ensure that requirements are understood and that functional and design proposals are fit for purpose
  • Liaising with Compliance, Risk & Controls functions to ensure adherence to Citi’s low touch electronic trading activity and policy and regulatory & internal controls requirements
  • Identifying and communicating inter-project dependencies to stakeholders and other project team members
  • Ensuring that materials developed can be re-used
  • Utilizing approved methodology and tools for Business Analysis
  • Liaising with e-Trading project members globally to achieve consistent, best-in-class documentation standards
  • Leading peer reviews and inspections of requirement documents
  • Assist in the production of business cases, ensuring that all projects have a viable business proposition
  • Lead and manage continual requirements for regulatory & control related documentation, both internally and vendor focussed.

Development Value:

  • Exposure to global stakeholders
  • Futures Electronic Execution, Algorithmic Trading and Transaction Cost Analysis Product knowledge
  • Opportunity to interact with cross-functional internal teams across multiple levels as well as interaction with external vendors

Knowledge/Experience:

  • Strong Business Analysis & Project Management experience
  • Strong understanding F&O products and processes
  • Practical experience in analysis/design/implementation of successful projects in the Futures front office area
  • Good understanding of regulatory obligations for electronic trading
  • Experience of defining/documenting business strategies/requirements
  • Good understanding of the FIX protocol
  • Strong understanding of Execution Algorithms
  • Good understanding of Market micro-structure, Order Types, Trading Benchmarks and Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA)
  • Hands-on experience in analysing trade data and designing TCA workflows from a data standpoint
  • Experience in developing test strategies and coordinating with QA teams
  • Vendor Management

Skills:

This role forms part of a major global program and as such requires other, broader responsibilities and requisite skills:

  • Inter-regional responsibilities – e.g. responsible for delivering projects for stakeholders in all regions
  • Collaboration with the business at a senior level – this program has detailed Director level interaction with the business on a daily basis as our business partners go through a process of discovery about the detail of the design and implementation
  • Collaboration with global partners – e.g. manage the dependencies on other IT groups, e.g. Infrastructure and Equities technology
  • Direct responsibility for relationships with external suppliers and vendors – the projects in this space are delivered in large part via a multi-million-dollar contract with a vendor
  • Strong inter-personal skills to manage stakeholder expectations and excellent problem solving skills to develop solutions.

Competencies

  • Strong analytical/problem solving skills
  • Good organizational skills to manage project delivery
  • Flexible communication style for multi-geography stakeholder groups
  • Strong oral/written communication skills and ability to facilitate discussions
  • Manage tight deadlines or unexpected requirement changes
  • Team player in a solid/matrix reporting organization
  • Willingness to ask questions, challenge the process and seek out answers
  • Ability to work independently, multi-task, take ownership and drive strategy

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Time Type :Full time

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Citi is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.
Minority/Female/Veteran/Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity.

Citigroup Inc. and its subsidiaries ("Citi”) invite all qualified interested applicants to apply for career opportunities. If you are a person with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to use our search tools and/or apply for a career opportunity HTML" target="_blank">CLICK HERE.

To view the "EEO is the Law" poster CLICK HERE. To view the EEO is the Law Supplement CLICK HERE.
To view the EEO Policy Statement CLICK HERE.
To view the Pay Transparency Posting CLICK HERE.

  • Belfast, United Kingdom
  • 10 Mar 2020

The IT Project Senior Manager accomplishes results through the management of professional team(s) and department(s). Integrates subject matter and industry expertise within a defined area. Contributes to standards around which others will operate. Requires in-depth understanding of how areas collectively integrate within the sub-function as well as coordinate and contribute to the objectives of the entire function. Requires basic commercial awareness. Developed communication and diplomacy skills are required in order to guide, influence and convince others, in particular colleagues in other areas and occasional external customers. Has responsibility for volume, quality, timeliness and delivery of end results of an area. May have responsibility for planning, budgeting and policy formulation within area of expertise. Involved in short-term planning resource planning. Full management responsibility of a team, which may include management of people, budget and planning, to include duties such as performance evaluation, compensation, hiring, disciplinary and terminations and may include budget approval.

Responsibilities:

  • Oversees all technology components of diverse, moderately complex IT projects, including project planning, execution, timing, functionality, quality and cost.
  • Utilizes expertise and leadership skills to direct staff and to resolve issues to ensure project goals and requirements are met.
  • Communicates with end-users to provide timely and accurate information and status updates.
  • Has shared responsibility for budget, policy formulation and planning.
  • Contributes to formulation of strategies for IT project leadership and other functional areas.
  • Evaluates subordinates' performance and makes decisions on pay increases, hiring, terminations and other personnel actions.
  • Applies in-depth understanding of concepts and procedures within own area and basic knowledge of other areas to resolve issues that have impact beyond own area.
  • Demonstrates a comprehensive understanding of how areas of IT project leadership collectively integrate to contribute to achieving business goals.
  • Provides evaluative judgment based on analysis of factual information in complicated and unique situations.
  • Directly impacts the IT project leadership area through responsibility for delivery of end results and shared responsibility for budget management; accountable for resource planning.
  • Ensures essential procedures are followed and contributes to defining standards.
  • Persuades and influences others through communication and diplomacy skills; may negotiate with external parties.
  • Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.


Qualifications:

  • 6-10 years experience in a related technology role with commensurate people management experience


Education:

  • Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience, potentially Masters degree


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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Citi is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.
Minority/Female/Veteran/Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity.

Citigroup Inc. and its subsidiaries ("Citi”) invite all qualified interested applicants to apply for career opportunities. If you are a person with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to use our search tools and/or apply for a career opportunity HTML" target="_blank">CLICK HERE.

To view the "EEO is the Law" poster CLICK HERE. To view the EEO is the Law Supplement CLICK HERE.
To view the EEO Policy Statement CLICK HERE.
To view the Pay Transparency Posting CLICK HERE.

  • Belfast, United Kingdom
  • 10 Mar 2020

The IT Project Senior Manager accomplishes results through the management of professional team(s) and department(s). Integrates subject matter and industry expertise within a defined area. Contributes to standards around which others will operate. Requires in-depth understanding of how areas collectively integrate within the sub-function as well as coordinate and contribute to the objectives of the entire function. Requires basic commercial awareness. Developed communication and diplomacy skills are required in order to guide, influence and convince others, in particular colleagues in other areas and occasional external customers. Has responsibility for volume, quality, timeliness and delivery of end results of an area. May have responsibility for planning, budgeting and policy formulation within area of expertise. Involved in short-term planning resource planning. Full management responsibility of a team, which may include management of people, budget and planning, to include duties such as performance evaluation, compensation, hiring, disciplinary and terminations and may include budget approval.

Responsibilities:

  • Oversees all technology components of diverse, moderately complex IT projects, including project planning, execution, timing, functionality, quality and cost.
  • Utilizes expertise and leadership skills to direct staff and to resolve issues to ensure project goals and requirements are met.
  • Communicates with end-users to provide timely and accurate information and status updates.
  • Has shared responsibility for budget, policy formulation and planning.
  • Contributes to formulation of strategies for IT project leadership and other functional areas.
  • Evaluates subordinates' performance and makes decisions on pay increases, hiring, terminations and other personnel actions.
  • Applies in-depth understanding of concepts and procedures within own area and basic knowledge of other areas to resolve issues that have impact beyond own area.
  • Demonstrates a comprehensive understanding of how areas of IT project leadership collectively integrate to contribute to achieving business goals.
  • Provides evaluative judgment based on analysis of factual information in complicated and unique situations.
  • Directly impacts the IT project leadership area through responsibility for delivery of end results and shared responsibility for budget management; accountable for resource planning.
  • Ensures essential procedures are followed and contributes to defining standards.
  • Persuades and influences others through communication and diplomacy skills; may negotiate with external parties.
  • Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.


Qualifications:

  • 6-10 years experience in a related technology role with commensurate people management experience


Education:

  • Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience, potentially Masters degree


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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Citi is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.
Minority/Female/Veteran/Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity.

Citigroup Inc. and its subsidiaries ("Citi”) invite all qualified interested applicants to apply for career opportunities. If you are a person with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to use our search tools and/or apply for a career opportunity HTML" target="_blank">CLICK HERE.

To view the "EEO is the Law" poster CLICK HERE. To view the EEO is the Law Supplement CLICK HERE.
To view the EEO Policy Statement CLICK HERE.
To view the Pay Transparency Posting CLICK HERE.