Are you looking for a career move that will put you at the heart of a global financial institution? Then bring your skills in data-driven modelling and data engineering to Citi’s Global FX Team.
By Joining Citi, you will become part of a global organization whose mission is to serve as a trusted partner to our clients by responsibly providing financial services that enable growth and economic progress.
Team/Role Overview
The FX Data Analytics & AI Technology team, within Citi's FX Technology organization, seeks a highly motivated Full Stack Data Scientist / Data Engineer.
The FX Data Analytics & Gen AI Technology team provides data, analytics, and tools to Citi FX sales and trading globally and is responsible for defining and executing the overall data strategy for FX.
The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and implementing data-driven models, and engineering robust data and analytics pipelines, to unlock actionable insights from our vast amount of global FX data. The role will be instrumental in executing the overall data strategy for FX and will benefit from close interaction with a wide range of stakeholders across sales, trading, and technology. We are looking for a proactive individual with a practical and pragmatic attitude, ability to build consensus, and work both collaboratively and independently in a dynamic environment.
What you’ll do
- Design, develop and implement quantitative models to derive insights from large and complex FX datasets, with a focus on understanding market trends and client behavior, identifying revenue opportunities, and optimizing the FX business.
- Engineer data and analytics pipelines using modern, cloud-native technologies and CI/CD workflows, focusing on consolidation, automation, and scalability.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across sales and trading to understand data needs, translate them into impactful data-driven solutions, and deliver these in partnership with technology.
- Develop and integrate functionality to ensure adherence with best-practices in terms of data management, need-to-know (NTK), and data governance.
- Contribute to shaping and executing the overall data strategy for FX in collaboration with the existing team and senior stakeholders.
What we’ll need from you
- 8 to 12 Years experience
- Master’s degree or above (or equivalent education) in a quantitative discipline.
- Proven experience in software engineering and development, and a strong understanding of computer systems and how they operate.
- Excellent Python programming skills, including experience with relevant analytical and machine learning libraries (e.g., pandas, polars, numpy, sklearn, TensorFlow/Keras, PyTorch, etc.), in addition to visualization and API libraries (matplotlib, plotly, streamlit, Flask, etc).
- Experience developing and implementing Gen AI applications from data in a financial context.
- Proficiency working with version control systems such as Git, and familiarity with Linux computing environments.
- Experience working with different database and messaging technologies such as SQL, KDB, MongoDB, Kafka, etc.
- Familiarity with data visualization and ideally development of analytical dashboards using Python and BI tools.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to convey complex information clearly and concisely to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Ideally, some experience working with CI/CD pipelines and containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
- Ideally, some familiarity with data workflow management tools such as Airflow as well as big data technologies such as Apache Spark/Ignite or other caching and analytics technologies.
- A working knowledge of FX markets and financial instruments would be beneficial.
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