Citigroup, Inc

Apps Development Sr Manager - Vice President

Citigroup, Inc • $120K — $170K *
Mississauga, ON L4T 0A1In-Person
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • 6-10 years of experience in Java & Microservices with leadership skills.
  • Hands-on experience in Java, Spring frameworks, and Microservices.
  • Strong knowledge of API development and observability tools.
  • Experience with messaging technologies like Kafka and MQ.
  • Proficient in SQL and NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Oracle).

Responsibilities

  • Manage Applications Development teams to meet goals and conduct personnel duties.
  • Provide technical oversight for application systems and programming activities.
  • Evaluate and analyze proposed technical solutions for projects.
  • Contribute to strategies for applications development and integration with business goals.
  • Monitor project delivery, budget management, and team resource allocation.
  • Ensure adherence to compliance policies and handling of risks in decision-making.
  • Drive continuous improvement in application development processes.

Benefits

  • Health, dental, and vision insurance options.
  • Retirement savings plans with company matching.
  • Professional development opportunities and training programs.
  • Flexible work schedule and potential remote work options.
Full Job Description
The Applications Development Senior Manager is 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.

Responsibilities:
  • Manage one or more Applications Development teams in an effort to accomplish established goals as well as conduct personnel duties for team (e.g. performance evaluations, hiring and disciplinary actions)
  • Utilize in-depth knowledge and skills across multiple Applications Development areas to provide technical oversight across systems and applications
  • Review and analyze proposed technical solutions for projects
  • Contribute to formulation of strategies for applications development and other functional areas
  • Develop comprehensive knowledge of how areas of business integrate to accomplish business goals
  • Provide evaluative judgment based on analysis of factual data in complicated and unique situations
  • Impact the Applications Development area through monitoring delivery of end results, participate in budget management, and handling day-to-day staff management issues, including resource management and allocation of work within the team/project
  • Ensure essential procedures are followed and contribute to defining standards negotiating with external parties when necessary
  • Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.


Leaderships:
  • Excellent organization skills, attention to detail, and ability to multi-task
  • Demonstrated sense of responsibility and capability to deliver quickly
  • Excellent communication skills. Clearly articulating and documenting technical and functional specifications is a key requirement.
  • Proactive problem-solver
  • Relationship builder and team player
  • Negotiation, difficult conversation management and prioritization skills
  • Flexibility to handle multiple complex projects and changing priorities
  • Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills
  • Good analytical and business skills
  • Promotes teamwork and builds strong relationships within and across global teams
  • Promotes continuous process improvement especially in code quality, testability & reliability


Technical Proficiency:
  • The Senior Technology Lead must be experienced hands-on engineer who is passionate about solving business, customer, and technology problems through innovation and perseverance. Responsible for writing the most mission critical code, design and design reviews, code reviews, and process automation. Ensure on time, on budget, high quality deliveries by self and team. Understand and influence software design & architecture for simplicity, resiliency, and performance.
  • Strong Experience in systems design and development of software applications
  • Experience in Banking Payments Solution development and implementation in large banks.
  • Strong exposure to Java, Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Kafka, MQ, Micro-Service , Oracle, Mongo, Openshift, REST, Maven, Git, JUnit, TDD, Agile, Strong knowledge on CI CD pipeline and exposure to system design with resiliency backed by observability .
  • Having Python skills and GEN AI tools knowledge is plus
  • Strong experience in working with various Payments schemes, and Payments messaging formats such as ISO 8583, ISO 20022, and SWIFT MX messages
  • Strong technical and functional experience in working in Banking domain under the payment space like Domestic (RTGS, GIRO, ACH etc.), International funds transfer, SWIFT/ISO20022 messaging, Currency Foreign Exchange, AML Monitoring, Sanction Screening etc
  • Experience and/or exposure to Digital Asset / Block chain domain is plus
  • Experience in managing and implementing successful projects
  • Leading a team of engineers and take the E2E responsibility of owning the delivery, by properly managing the Jira board at all the times
  • Proven experience of handling the Production Releases and the postproduction support
  • Be hands on the technologies and contribute to the Architecture, Design, Implementation and Pull Request reviews with a good quality ensuring the adequate coverage of Unit Test, Code Coverage , lesser or no code smells fostering a good refactoring, scalability, and maintainability.
  • Stakeholder management and ability to liaise well with the Engineering, QA and Product/Business throughout the SDLC lifecycle.
  • Groom the team on technical, functional and behavioral aspects where needed
  • Be proactive, assertive and a strategic thinker


Qualifications:
  • 6-10 years of relevant experience in Java & Microservices with commensurate people management experience.
  • Hands-on working experience in Java / Spring / Spring Cloud / Spring Data JPA / Spring Boot Microservices.
  • Strong experience of Microservices, API Development and its Eco-systems.
  • Strong experience on Observability and Monitoring tech stack as well
  • Messaging like Kafka and MQ components
  • Hands-on working experience with Junit, Git, Jenkins, Maven.
  • Should have troubleshooting skills using debuggers, logs, etc.
  • Experience with Openshift, AWS will be added advantage.
  • Implement Unit Testing and TDD to ensure software quality and maintainability.
  • Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Work proactively & independently to address project requirements, and articulate issues/challenges with enough lead time to address project delivery risks.
  • Code reviews, test case reviews, and ensure code developed meets the requirements.
  • Proficiency in SQL Databases, MongoDB, Oracle, Data Analysis. Experience as Applications Development Manager
  • Experience as senior level in an Applications Development role
  • Stakeholder and people management experience
  • Demonstrated leadership skills
  • Proven project management skills
  • Basic knowledge of industry practices and standards
  • Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication


Role Responsibilities:
  • Design, implement, and deploy software components and solve difficult problems generating positive feedback.
  • Lead Payment modernization for the bank to develop and migrate payment applications on the modernized enterprise application platform.
  • Effectively coach, help and give feedback to junior team members.
  • Able to work independently and with team(s) to deliver software product successfully.
  • Lead deliveries that are consistently of high quality (secure, testable, maintainable, low-defects, efficient, etc.) and incorporate best practices.
  • Review design and code.
  • Focus on operational excellence, constructively identifying problems, identifying and building solutions, taking on projects that improve software, making it better and easier to maintain.
  • Make improvements to development and testing processes.


Education:
  • Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience


Job Family Group:
Technology

Job Family:
Applications Development

Time Type:
Full time

Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:
$120,800.00 - $170,800.00

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

We use automated processing, including artificial intelligence, for our legitimate business interests (or our reasonable and appropriate business purposes) to identify and align the candidate's skills and abilities with a specific job opening. Additionally, if you so choose, or consent, we can match your skills and abilities to other suitable roles at Citi.

Importantly, all our hiring processes and decisions, including determining your suitability for a role, are conducted, checked, and decided by individuals. Our automated processing and AI do not involve relying on automatic or autonomous decision-making. Please refer to any Jurisdictional Considerations, with specific provisions for your country (where relevant) for further details.

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Citigroup is a financial services holding company that provides financial products and services. The company operates through two segments, Global Consumer Banking (GCB) and Institutional Clients Group (ICG). The GCB segment offers traditional banking services to retail customers through retail banking, commercial banking, Citi-branded cards, and Citi retail services. The ICG segment offers various banking, and financial products and services to corporate, institutional, public sector, and high-net-worth clients. This segment provides wholesale banking products and services, including fixed-income and equity sales and trading, foreign exchange, prime brokerage, derivative services, equity and fixed-income research, corporate lending, investment banking, and advisory services, private banking, cash management, trade finance, and securities services. Citi is committed to sustainability and social responsibility, and the company invests in initiatives that promote economic progress.

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