About Citi:

Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management.

As a bank with a brain and a soul, Citi creates economic value that is systemically responsible and in our clients’ best interests. As a financial institution that touches every region of the world and every sector that shapes your daily life, our Operations & Technology teams are charged with a mission that rivals any large tech company. Our technology solutions are the foundations of everything we do from keeping the bank safe, managing global resources, and providing the technical tools our workers need to be successful to designing our digital architecture and ensuring our platforms provide a first-class customer experience. We reimagine client and partner experiences to deliver excellence through secure, reliable, and efficient services.

Our commitment to diversity includes a workforce that represents the clients we serve from all walks of life, backgrounds, and origins. We foster an environment where the best people want to work. We value and demand respect for others, promote individuals based on merit, and ensure opportunities for personal development are widely available to all. Ideal candidates are innovators with well-rounded backgrounds who bring their authentic selves to work and complement our culture of delivering results with pride. If you are a problem solver who seeks passion in your work, come join us. We’ll enable growth and progress together.

The Role:

The Lead Application Engineer (Java Full-Stack), Prod Management is responsible for the development and overall implementation of software in a complex, critical and large cross-departmental and multi-disciplinary area. This role is part of a multi-year transformation journey that will require a successful candidate to establish best practices, motivate and promote a cultural shift that will ensure a successful adoption of Engineering Principles and Practices within Production Management. The role requires a comprehensive understanding of multiple areas within a function and how they interact to achieve the objectives of the function and is involved in short- to medium-term planning of actions and resources for own area.

The ideal candidates applies in-depth understanding of the business impact of technical contributions, own accountability for delivery of a full range of end-to-end projects, while utilizing excellent communication skills to negotiate internally.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates an in-depth understanding of Software Development Lifecycle and how it integrates within the overall technology landscape to deliver scalable, reliable and resilient applications.
• Ability to operate in a global environment with on-/near-/off-shore matrix reporting structures.
• Operates into a highly regulated environment that requires in-depth understanding of the regulatory requirements and the industry implications for our technologies.
• Improve the service level the team provides to our end users, which includes maximizing operational efficiencies, strengthening incident management, problem management and knowledge sharing practices.
• Drives Continuous Delivery and Automation efforts across the supported applications by means of Root Cause Analysis reviews, Knowledge management, Performance tuning, and user training.
• Fosters a culture that promotes transparency and innovation for increased team productivity.
• Coaching members of the team and outside the immediate reporting line about the best practices and recognizes anti-patterns that are quickly addressed.
• Implements the Agile Framework through one of its implementations like SCRUM or Kanban and ensures it integrates with overall organization processes.
• Avidly communicates progress and project status across the organization and ensures that stakeholders are managed appropriately throughout the execution period.

Qualifications

• 8+ years' experience in a critical software development role with high business impact, ability to understand how software delivers business value
• Proven hands-on experience in full-stack Java engineering is a firm requirement, complemented by strong expertise in modern front-end frameworks like React.
• Excellent working knowledge of key computer science concepts (networking, operating systems, virtualization, containerization, etc.)
• Polyglot full-stack developer mentality and ability to pick up new languages and skills
• Excellent understanding of Software Engineering concepts like Software Development Life Cycle and Git Ops
• Excellent debugging and analytical skills: ability to isolate root cause across networking/infrastructure, application and database stacks
• Operational experience of deploying and running services at scale on top of Docker/Kubernetes stack and a service mesh, like Istio, is highly desirable
• Operational experience with orchestration tools for CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code tooling (Terraform, Cloud Formation, etc.) is a highly desirable
• Experience of delivering software using Agile delivery methodologies is a must (SCRUM/Kanban)
• Operational experience of using middleware technologies (MQ, Apache Kafka, etc.) to run services at scale is desirable
• Strong experience with end-to-end observability stacks (Datadog, AppDynamics, Dynatrace, etc.) is desirable
• Degree in computer science/mathematics/physics or related technical subject is desirable
• Experience of senior stakeholder management
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication skills

Education

• Bachelor’s/University degree is required; a Master’s degree is preferred

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

Job Family Group:

Technology

Job Family:

Applications Development

Time Type:

Full time

Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:

$145,100.00 - $217,700.00

Most Relevant Skills

Please see the requirements listed above.

Other Relevant Skills

For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

Automated Processing and AI

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