* Flexible to be fully remote or Hybrid (Charlotte, NC or Fort Lauderdale, FL)

About the Team & Business Line:

Proprietary software solutions and innovation are at the core of what differentiates Citco in the alternative investment space. Through our network of global development centres, Citco invests heavily in technology development, security, and infrastructure to ensure our clients continue to receive award-winning products that underpin our commitment to service excellence.

As a core member of our Hedge Fund Accounting IT team, you will work with dedicated professionals to ensure our clients maintain access to their critical information assets while keeping Citco ahead of industry trends. In this role you will be part of a critical application re-build. In fact, this role provides a great opportunity to serve as a critical Cloud Application Architect on the direct and interrelated architectural design components related to a new Citco platform development project.

Your Role:

Design and build large-scale, distributed systems delivered as Enterprise-wide, global-facing PaaS or SaaS offerings.
Document designs using modeling and diagramming techniques
Participate in deep architectural discussions to build confidence and ensure team success when building new and migrating existing applications, software and services onto the Cloud platform
Drive Microservices style of architecture when applicable. Apply Domain Driven Design concepts to model Microservices
Define and maintain Cloud Application Development Standards and Guidelines
Work closely with other individuals and groups in the execution of technology proof of concepts, deployment, and adoption of Cloud with the organization
Extend and maintain API schema models
Review design and code from an efficiency and best practice standpoint
Evaluate existing tools and recommend development tools for Cloud based development
Provide DevOps reference implementation for the application
Use modern deployment techniques (containers, serverless compute) to deploy applications
Apply industry frameworks, patterns and tools as necessary to help monitor and debug applications
Build application custom frameworks if needed to apply common themes like Authorization across the application
Be an advocate of an API based IT group and test driven development approach
Understand how to apply enterprise architecture guidelines
Secure and compliant data and messaging egress and ingress
Federated authentication and authorization models
Automated workload lifecycle management
Ensure application and information is encrypted in transit and rest
Apply standards and policies for the application security, compliance and governance of data and information stored or processed
Document and develop in-depth architecture and design patterns

About You:

Bachelor s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent.
10-12 years of development background, with a minimum of 2 to 4 years of strong cloud application development experience with any Cloud platform
Previous experience in Financial Services is a plus
Think creatively and propose options/solutions to challenges
Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to interact effectively in a global

You have expertise/experience in one or more of the following:

Webservices (REST) and messaging products
Polyglot programming skills in JavaScript & Python
Microservices architecture and domain driven design
Cloud Application Design patterns and frameworks (for e.g. service discovery, circuit breaker, and 12 factor)
API based Development and tools (Swagger, Postman, Blueprint, RAML)
Good understanding of different API design patterns, securing API s concepts, API retry mechanism using Exponential Backoff, API Throttling and API Rate Limiting
Experience with different Authorization & Authentication Protocols like OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWTs, SAML
Familiarity with GraphQL would be a plus
Container and Container Management frameworks (for e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)
Container based PaaS (for e.g. Redhat Openshift, AWS ECS, Google Kubernetes Engine)
Hands-on technical experience in Cloud Computing environments (e.g., Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS)
DevOps, Test Driven Development and software development methodologies
Deep understanding of auto-scalability and high-availability concepts on Cloud environments

Additional expertise/experience in any of the following areas is considered an asset:

Good understanding of industry UI frameworks node, react, Angular
Experience with CICD tools such as Jenkins, Bamboo or CodePipeline
Able to work with other Architects to design applications that meets defined requirements and standards
Familiarity with different performance testing tools like Locust/ /Rest Assured
Familiarity with API Gateway, Kong/Amazon API Gateway
Self-motivated, innovative and analytical with strong attention to detail
Strong sense of responsibility and service minded attitude
Willingness to learn new skills and to contribute to a team culture centered on continuous improvement
Organized, accurate and self-motivated

About Citco

Citco is a global leader in fund services, corporate governance and related asset services with staff across 80 offices worldwide. With more than $1 trillion in assets under administration, we deliver end-to-end solutions and exceptional service to meet our clients needs.

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Our Benefits

Your well-being is of paramount importance to us, and central to our success. We provide a range of benefits, training and education support, and flexible working arrangements to help you achieve success in your career while balancing personal needs. Ask us about specific benefits in your location.

We recognize diversity as a source of organizational pride and strength. We have made it a priority to reflect our nation s evolving diversity in the people we hire, and the culture we create in our organization.

Citco welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection.

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