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Software Engineer II

Technology

Short Hills, New Jersey

Description

Citizens Financial Group, Inc. (CFG) seeks a Software Engineer II for its Short Hills, New Jersey location.

Responsibilities:

•    Contribute to design and architecture for the technology solutions. 
•    Responsible for Designing, modifying, developing, and implementing technology solutions. 
•    Build modern, architecturally sound components, tools, and applications to meet mission-driven strategic business goals. 
•    Participate in an environment rapidly transforming to the Agile methodology, adhering to best practices, and collaborating effectively with teammates. 
•    Analyze technology needs and gather technical requirements. 
•    Infuse quality of service characteristics, such as scalability, manageability, and maintainability, into distributed service-based framework to create or expand business or technical capabilities. 
•    Participate in code and design reviews to ensure that solutions meet the enterprise standards and best practices. 
•    Document development iterations; ensuring the quality of technical documentation; creating progress reports. 
•    Collaborate with cross functional team members as necessary and come up with optimal solutions that meet solution demands. 
•    Execute unit test of the developed functionality in target environment, validate expected result and ensure quality & accuracy. 
•    Coordinate with business users for user acceptance test and with operations team for code deployment to upper environments.
•    Follow change management team stipulations on path to production requirements and strictly adhere to the compliance and regulatory needs.

Qualifications:
Requires a Bachelor’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field and two (2) years of experience as Software Developer, Software Engineer, or related position involving software development.

Full term of experience must include: 
•    Architecting, designing, developing, implementing, and managing AWS Cloud solutions; 
•    Utilizing highly automated CI/CD pipelines , including Confluence, Jira, Jenkins, GIT, Nexus, Maven and Bitbucket; 
•    Developing software in object oriented programming languages, including C, C++, VC++, and JAVA; 
•    Web application development utilizing HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, & XML; 
•    Utilizing IDE and development tools, including IntelliJ, Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, SVN, GIT, Bitbucket, Putty, WinSCP, Maven, and Nexus repository; and 
•    Utilizing RDBMS and NOSQL databases, including MySQL.

Remote work permitted 1 day per week.

Worksite: 101 John F Kennedy Pkwy., Short Hills, NJ 07078 United States, 40 hrs/wk. Salary Range: $112,169.40 - 135,000/year. EO employer.

For summary of benefits and to apply visit our website at https://jobs.citizensbank.com  and apply online (Job ID: 49577) or email resume and cover letter to Recruiting@Citizensbank.com with subject line: 49577.

Direct applicants only. 

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Equal Employment Opportunity

Citizens, its parent, subsidiaries, and related companies (Citizens) provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all colleagues and applicants for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, citizenship, physical or mental disability, perceived disability or history or record of a disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, genetic characteristic, marital or domestic partner status, victim of domestic violence, family status/parenthood, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, pregnancy/childbirth/lactation, colleague’s or a dependent’s reproductive health decision making, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or any other category protected by federal, state and/or local laws. At Citizens, we are committed to fostering an inclusive culture that enables all colleagues to bring their best selves to work every day and everyone is expected to be treated with respect and professionalism. Employment decisions are based solely on merit, qualifications, performance and capability.

Background Check

Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the candidate successfully passing a background check, which may include initial credit, motor vehicle record, public record, prior employment verification, and criminal background checks. Results of the background check are individually reviewed based upon legal requirements imposed by our regulators and with consideration of the nature and gravity of the background history and the job offered. Any offer of employment will include further information.

Benefits

We offer competitive pay, comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage, retirement benefits, maternity/paternity leave, flexible work arrangements, education reimbursement, wellness programs and more.

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