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Job Description
The Applications Development Group 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.
As the Lifecycle and Event Processing technology lead, you will work together with front office, operations, product development teams and members of the development team to provide solutions that improve efficiency, decrease operational risk, and enable the business to expand. You will have significant experience in building high-performing, scalable and enterprise-grade event driven applications adopting best-in-class engineering practices. These are high profile applications that offer you the opportunity to shape the future technical direction and take ownership of global platforms. You'll work in a collaborative, respecting, trusting and diverse environment that encourages creative thinking and critical problem solving that are best in class, to serve our clients globally.
Responsibilities:
- Manage multiple teams of professionals to accomplish established goals and conduct personnel duties for team (e.g. performance evaluations, hiring and disciplinary actions)
- Provide strategic influence and exercise control over resources, budget management and planning while monitoring end results
- Utilize in-depth knowledge of concepts and procedures within own area and basic knowledge of other areas to resolve issues
- Ensure essential procedures are followed and contribute to defining standards
- Integrate in-depth knowledge of applications development with overall technology function to achieve established goals
- Provide evaluative judgement based on analysis of facts in complicated, unique, and dynamic situations including drawing from internal and external sources
- Influence and negotiate with senior leaders across functions, as well as communicate with external parties as 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.
- Working with the team to define the architecture, design, development, code review, testing and maintenance of applications.
- Design and implement scalable applications and services with a solid focus on quality, continuous integration, and deployment.
- Write testable code following clean coding and SOLID design principles.
- Perform code reviews and contribute to overall quality, maintainability and testability of software developed.
- Be willing and able to adapt to changes in priorities and requirements.
- Be a self-starter and plan/schedule own work for tasks and projects, implement functionality without direct supervision.
- Work closely with clients and stakeholders to define feature requirements and deliver a product tha materially impacts the business and improves the end user experience.
- Work closely with teams to form good working culture and continuously adapt to different working environment.
Qualifications:
- At least 12 years of software development experience.
- Strong knowledge on Java 8, Core Java, Spring, Hibernate and restful web services including its data interchange format/definition such as XML, JSON.
- Strong experience in distributed caching technologies like Apache Ignite or similar.
- Familiar with different persistent storage technologies such as RDMS (Sybase, SQL Server or Oracle) and NoSQL.
- Solid experience working with source code management tools – Git or Bitbucket.
- Good understanding of clean coding principles.
- Good understanding of code quality measurements using tools like Sonar and able to implement design and implement unit, integration, and functional tests.
- Must demonstrate strong familiarity of design patterns.
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- A team-player who is comfortable working in a team that deals with ambiguity and problem solving
- Experience in management
- Experience managing global technology teams
- Working knowledge of industry practices and standards
- Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication
- Strong knowledge of Equity Derivatives products & product lifecycle
- Strong experience working with OpenShift / Kubernetes or other cloud platforms
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
- Master’s degree preferred
How You’ll Succeed
Be conscientious and consistent in identifying security vulnerabilities and working with the respective engineering teams and stakeholders to provide sound guidance and remediations. Be a team player, and a keen learner.
Working at Citi is far more than just a job. A career with us means joining a family of more than 230,000 dedicated people from around the globe. At Citi, you’ll have the opportunity to grow your career, give back to your community and make a real impact.
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