Senior Full-Stack Lead Application Developer VP

About Citi Citi, the leading global financial services company, serves approximately 200 million customer accounts and operates in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management. Our core activities are safeguarding assets, lending money, making payments and accessing the capital markets on behalf of our clients. Citis Mission and Value Proposition explains what we do and Citi Leadership Standards explain how we do it. Our mission is to serve as a trusted partner to our clients by responsibly providing financial services that enable growth and economic progress. We strive to earn and maintain our clients and the publics trust by adhering to the highest ethical standards and making a positive impact on the communities we serve. Our Leadership Standards is a common set of skills and expected behaviours that illustrate how our employees should work every day to be successful and strengthens our ability to execute against our strategic priorities. Diversity is a key business imperative and a source of strength at Citi. We serve clients from every walk of life, every background and every origin. Our goal is to have our workforce reflect this same diversity at all levels. Citi has made it a priority to foster a culture where the best people want to work, where individuals are promoted based on merit, where we value and demand respect for others and where opportunities to develop are widely available to all. About Team and Platform Citi Futures and Derivatives Clearing Technology supports a rapidly growing business that uses technological innovation to maintain competitive advantage in a constantly evolving market. Working closely with the business, external vendors and internal technology teams, you would build-out and maintain our next generation clearing platforms. You would manage complex projects that will involve everything from incorporating a new functionality within the existing ecosystem, to analyzing new requirements, documenting solutions, managing implementation and testing systems, ensuring that they are fit for purpose. You would regularly work with a range of Business Analysts and high-profile stakeholders. The Data and Reporting team develops and supports a platform that provides client reporting and feeds other downstream applications within Citi. It provides reporting such as real-time trades, positions, initial and variation margin, positions and balances for external clients and internal users such as traders, operations and sales. A major ongoing initiative is to modernize the existing platform in order to provide scale and to enhance product offerings and new business requirements. As the development lead for the data and reporting, you will lead the team to deliver best in class technical solutions to meet the needs of our Futures and Clearing business. This includes researching best practices, designing the application architecture, designing the solutions, and delivering our application to the business. The team works closely with cross-functional business users, QA engineers and BAs collaborating to deliver best in class solutions. This role suits experienced architects/developers who have excellent communication and are passionate about driving technical solutions through leadership, excellence, collaboration. Responsibilities Lead design and development of technical solutions for the data and reporting application utilizing best engineering practices Contribute to technical direction and enhancement as a technical expert in development and implementation phases, providing in-depth and sophisticated analyses to define problems and develop innovative solutions Work closely with business users, stakeholders, BAs, product managers and other development teams to understand problem space, brainstorm ideas, approaches, and solutions Design and develop software applications using microservices cloud-native architecture to be resilient, stateless, scalable, and testable with automation and reusability as key objectives Contribute to CI/CD implementation using DevOps best practices based on industry and Citi standards and work to implement them Work with key business SMEs to develop an in-depth understanding of their critical data and reporting needs and business impact of existing data quality and data integrity issues on a detailed level Contribute to technical direction and strategic decisions as a technical expert in all development and implementation phases, providing in-depth and sophisticated analyses to define problems and develop innovative solutions Demonstrate a data-driven approach to problem-solving and decision-making, utilising metrics, and performance indicators to assess team efficiency and identify improvement opportunities Partner with QA team to ensure robust testing framework is utilized for functional and nonfunctional testing for the release cycles Partner with Support team to ensure stability of production environment with proactive monitoring and health checks Partner with other Citi development teams to build APIs, integrations and share components that are critical to our platforms success Exhibit strong leadership qualities, fostering a positive and collaborative work environment, providing guidance and mentorship to team members, and promoting a culture of continuous learning Work closely with business users, stakeholders, BAs, product managers and other development teams to understand problem space, brainstorm ideas, approaches, and solutions

Qualifications

7-10 years of relevant experience within the required domain Full stack Java backend and some experience in front end React or Angular Enterprise solution architecture; Kafka event-driven/realtime data integration for high volume client application Strong Microservices, APIs experience; DevOps is a plus Strong communication and problem-solving analysis with trading business knowledge to handle with business stakeholders Dev or team lead experience: small team is fine Strong hands-on experience in leading solution architecture and development including front-end web development and back-end application development with scalable data architecture Strong experience in designing and building enterprise application and data architecture with site engineering excellence Hands-on experience with front-end, back-end and infrastructure technologies including Angular/React, Spring Boot/Cloud, API Hands-on experience with modern software paradigms including cloud-native (AWS, Docker) and microservices Experience with application security best practices (secret management, OAuth/PKI) Experience in CI/CD and modern best practices; testing frameworks and SOLID principles; CI/CD tooling, automation of testing tools Experience in Business Intelligence reporting tools (e.g. Tableau and Power BI) and integration with web applications using APIs is a plus Hands-on development experience with traditional and modern data systems (relational/non-relational databases, cloud/big data platform, data catalogue and governance tools) Passion for adopting new technologies with an exploratory mindset Experience as a technical lead for software development and implementation Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment Innovative ideas and can-do attitude to work under pressure Strong problem-solving skills Experience in financial services is a plus but not required Experience in GenAI and machine learning in application is a plus Excellent verbal and written communication skills for collaboration with cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and management

Education

Bachelors degree/University degree or equivalent experience in computer sciences, engineering, math/statistics

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