The Applications Development Senior Manager is a senior management level position responsible for accomplishing results through the management of a team or department in an effort to establish and implement new or revised application systems and programs in coordination with the Technology team. The overall objective of this role is to drive applications systems analysis and programming activities.
We are seeking a strong Technical Lead for the Collateral Management and Margining system for Citi Global Wealth Management business. The successful candidate will lead application development, solutioning, and work with the development team to support the delivery of solutions, interacting with key stakeholders from product, risk, and operations for handling application activities and new projects.

Responsibilities:

• Manage one or more Applications Development teams in an effort to accomplish established goals
• Partner with multiple management teams to ensure appropriate integration of functions to meet goals
• Resolve variety of high impact problems/projects through in-depth evaluation of complex business processes, system processes, and industry standards
• Proactively notify program manager for risks, bottlenecks, problems, issues, and concerns. Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path
• Champion production sustainability initiatives, including monitoring, alerting, and incident response, to maintain high availability and performance.
• Implement and improve delivery processes and metrics to track progress, identify areas for optimization, and report on delivery health.
• Drive and oversee deployment activities, coordinating with DevOps and infrastructure teams to ensure smooth and efficient application rollouts
• Hands on with Design, code, test, and implement application release projects as part of development team
• Proactively notify program manager for risks, bottlenecks, problems, issues, and concerns. Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path
• As an application manager – manages application stability, address end of life software, address COB and resilience related issues, optimize application performance.
• Promotes continuous process improvement especially in code quality, testability & reliability
• Provide leadership and guidance to team members. Promotes teamwork and builds strong relationships within and across global teams
• Review and analyze proposed technical solutions for projects

Qualifications:

• 12+ years of relevant experience in an Apps Development or systems analysis role in the Financial Service industry.
• Experience as an Applications Development Manager and in a senior-level Applications Development role.
• Extensive development expertise in building high-scaled and performant software platforms for data computation and processing.
• Strong analytical and design skills for translating complex requirements into technical solutions.
• Strong hands-on coding experience with Core Java and the Spring framework (Core, Boot, etc.), with a focus on building Java microservices.
• Experience with DevOps practices, including continuous integration/delivery, source code management, and quality analysis tools
• Strong knowledge of distributed messaging and database technologies (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, Oracle, Redis, MongoDB).
• Experience in deploying cloud-native solutions with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes, Open Shift).
• Hands-on coding experience in Python is a plus.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, capable of presenting technical designs and high-level documentation
• Demonstrated experience in mentoring engineers and fostering a culture of technical excellence and innovation within the team
• Experience with Agile development methodologies and scrums.
• Subject Matter Expert (SME) in at least one area of Applications Development for Lending/Credit Risk/Margining/Collateral Management will be a significant advantage.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
• Master’s degree preferred

Job Family Group:

Technology

Job Family:

Applications Development

Time Type:

Full time

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