About Citi:
Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management.
As a bank with a brain and a soul, Citi creates economic value that is systemically responsible and in our clients' best interests. As a financial institution that touches every region of the world and every sector that shapes your daily life, our Enterprise Operations & Technology teams are charged with a mission that rivals any large tech company. Our technology solutions are the foundations of everything we do from keeping the bank safe, managing global resources, and providing the technical tools our workers need to be successful to designing our digital architecture and ensuring our platforms provide a first-class customer experience. We reimagine client and partner experiences to deliver excellence through secure, reliable, and efficient services.
Our commitment to diversity includes a workforce that represents the clients we serve from all walks of life, backgrounds, and origins. We foster an environment where the best people want to work. We value and demand respect for others, promote individuals based on merit, and ensure opportunities for personal development are widely available to all. Ideal candidates are innovators with well-rounded backgrounds who bring their authentic selves to work and complement our culture of delivering results with pride. If you are a problem solver who seeks passion in your work, come join us. We'll enable growth and progress together.
About the Team:
The Applications Development Intermediate Programmer Analyst is a technically sharp, detail-oriented professional who thrives at the intersection of systems automation, data engineering, and financial services technology. This role is purpose-built for a hands-on practitioner - someone who finds satisfaction in crafting elegant shell scripts, building reliable data pipelines, and engineering automation that keeps mission-critical financial systems running with precision and consistency. At Citi, technology is not a background function - it is the engine that powers financial services for over 200 million clients worldwide, and the engineers who build and maintain that engine are integral to our ability to operate at scale, speed, and with unwavering integrity.
In this role, the successful candidate will embed directly within cross-functional technology teams, partnering with developers, data engineers, and business analysts to deliver application enhancements, automate operational workflows, and resolve complex data challenges. You will bring a practitioner's mindset to every engagement - writing and debugging production-grade scripts, optimizing job scheduling configurations, and ensuring the accuracy and completeness of financial data as it flows through critical reconciliation systems. Your work will have direct, measurable impact on the reliability and performance of systems that underpin Citi's global operations.
This is also a role where your expertise will matter beyond your own deliverables. You will serve as a subject matter resource for peers and junior analysts, sharing your technical knowledge and helping to raise the bar across the team. At Citi, we believe the best engineers make the people around them better - and this role is an opportunity to do exactly that, while continuing to grow your own craft in one of the world's most dynamic and consequential technology environments.
Responsibilities:
- Utilize knowledge of applications development procedures and concepts, and basic knowledge of other technical areas to identify and define necessary system enhancements, including using script tools and analyzing/interpreting code
- Consult with users, clients, and other technology groups on issues, and recommend programming solutions, install, and support customer exposure systems
- Apply fundamental knowledge of programming languages for design specifications
- Analyze applications to identify vulnerabilities and security issues, as well as conduct testing and debugging
- Serve as advisor or coach to new or lower level analysts
- Identify problems, analyze information, and make evaluative judgements to recommend and implement solutions
- Resolve issues by identifying and selecting solutions through the applications of acquired technical experience and guided by precedents
- Has the ability to operate with a limited level of direct supervision
- Can exercise independence of judgement and autonomy
- Acts as SME to senior stakeholders and/or other team members
- 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
Qualifications:
- 2+ years of relevant experience in the Financial Services industry, with a minimum of 2+ years in a hands-on application development or scripting/automation role
- Expert proficiency in Shell scripting (Bash/Ksh/Sh) in Unix/Linux environments, with demonstrated ability to write, maintain, and optimize production-grade scripts for automation, data processing, file handling, and system operations
- Strong proficiency in SQL, including the ability to write, debug, and optimize complex queries across large financial datasets, with hands-on experience in data validation, joins, aggregations, and filtering logic
- Hands-on experience with relational database platforms such as Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, or PostgreSQL, including working knowledge of schemas, indexing, and query performance optimization
- Experience building and supporting ETL pipelines and data workflows using shell-based scripting and related automation tools, including end-to-end troubleshooting of data extraction, transformation, and loading processes
- Proficiency in Python scripting as a complement to shell-based workflows, with experience applying Python for data manipulation, file parsing, and automation tasks; proficiency in JSON parsing and processing within shell or Python scripts is a strong plus
- Experience with enterprise job scheduling platforms such as Autosys or Control-M, including configuration of shell script-driven jobs, dependency chains, calendar settings, and failure alerting
- Demonstrated ability to work fluently across Unix/Linux system environments, including file system navigation, process management, permission handling, cron job configuration, and environment variable management
- Experience with data formats including CSV, JSON, and XML, including parsing, transforming, and validating these formats via shell and scripting utilities such as awk, sed, grep, and cut
- Solid debugging and troubleshooting skills across shell script logic, data pipeline failures, and job scheduling configurations, with a structured approach to diagnosing and resolving production issues
- Experience with version control tools such as Git for managing shell scripts, configuration files, and automation code in a collaborative development environment
- Basic understanding of capital markets, trade life cycle, and financial data flows; familiarity with reconciliation concepts and data controls in financial operations is highly desirable
- Financial Services industry experience is preferred
- Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication
- Demonstrated problem-solving and decision-making skills
- Ability to work under pressure and manage deadlines or unexpected changes in expectations or requirements
Education:
Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience
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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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Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:
$79,320.00 - $110,680.00
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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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