Technology Lead

Citi; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Citi seeks a Technology Lead responsible for managing applications development teams. This senior role requires in-depth knowledge of technology best practices and experience in leadership, stakeholder management, and project oversight. The successful candidate will drive innovative solutions, ensuring alignment with business objectives, and contribute to establishing development standards.

Qualifications

• 6-10 years in Financial Services industry.
• Experience in Application Development Management.
• Strong leadership and project management skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage Applications Development teams to achieve goals.
• Provide technical oversight and strategic contributions.
• Ensure compliance and quality standards are followed.

Skills

Leadership

Project Management

Java

J2EE

Spring

HTML/CSS

JavaScript

SQL

Unit Testing

Git

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Master’s degree preferred

Job description

The Technology Lead 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.

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.

Qualifications:

• 6-10 years of relevant experience in the Financial Service industry
• 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

Technology Skills:

• Proficient in industry standard best practices such as Design Patterns, Coding Standards, Coding modularity, Prototypes, Object oriented programming etc.
• Thorough in-depth understanding of usage of the fundamental concepts of Java and J2EE
• Knowledge and application of Java, J2EE, Spring, Spring Boot, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, JSP, Servlets, JDBC, Struts framework
• Experience with any SQL/No SQL databases (Oracle, Sybase, Mongo etc.)
• Strong knowledge of unit testing frameworks like JUnit, Mockito
• Experience in debugging, tuning and optimizing Java micro service components
• Expertise in technologies like JMS, Solace is a plus
• Experience working in a Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery environment and familiar with Teamcity, Jenkins, Code Quality/Style Tools -SonarLint, Blackduck etc.
• Knowledge of application servers / webservers (weblogic, Tomcat)
• Proficiency with Git for managing code versions and collaborating with other developers.
• Work experience on the transactional applications for low latency, high availability uses is a plus
• Experience with Single page application development like Angular or React is an added advantage

Education:

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

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

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Job Family Group:

Technology

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Job Family:

Applications Development

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Time Type:

Full time

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