Senior Engineering Manager, Securities Processing (Director) - Citi

ZipRecruiter; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global bank in London is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the transformation of its securities settlements technology stack. This role involves engineering leadership, strategic transformation, and ensuring technical excellence. Candidates should have a BS/MS in Engineering or Computer Science and experience in Capital Markets technology. The role offers a competitive salary and a hybrid working model.

Benefits

27 days annual leave

Discretionary annual performance bonus

Private medical care & life insurance

Pension plan

Paid parental leave

Qualifications

• Experience in Capital Markets technology focusing on Securities Processing.
• Senior Developer experience building end-to-end solutions.
• Direct management experience leading development teams in a bank.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of software engineers and promote strong engineering principles.
• Modernize a large legacy securities processing stack.
• Own the architecture and design of enterprise applications.

Skills

Java

Spring Framework

Microservice architecture

Agile/SCRUM

Excellent communication

Education

BS/MS in Engineering or Computer Science

Tools

Oracle RDBMS

Tibco EMS

AWS

GitHub

Job description

Overview

Discover your future at Citi

Citi is a world-leading global bank with a presence in more than 160 countries. We provide consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management. We enable clients to achieve their strategic financial objectives by delivering ideas, products, and access to capital and liquidity.

What we do: Citi Markets Technology powers the global financial markets by providing innovative, robust, and high-performance technology solutions. We are transforming core platforms to support high-volume, low-latency transactions and drive business growth.

What you will do: As a Senior Engineering Manager within Markets Operations Technology (MOT), you will lead a critical team responsible for the transformation and engineering excellence of Citi\'s Securities Settlements processing technology stack. This is a high-impact role in a fast-paced environment, offering the opportunity to shape scalable infrastructure across Citi\'s NAM, EMEA, and APAC markets operations. You will lead the architecture, design, development, and delivery of strategic solutions and ensure Level-3 support for the securities processing settlements tech stack.

Key Responsibilities

• Engineering Leadership: Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of software engineers; promote strong engineering principles, product ownership, and continuous improvement. Provide technical guidance, perform code reviews, and drive best practices.
• Strategic Transformation: Modernize a large legacy securities processing stack into a modern, high-volume, low-latency, scalable platform. Formulate and execute technology strategy for brown-field and green-field efforts.
• Architecture & Design: Own the architecture and design of enterprise applications focusing on microservices, distributed systems, and scalable solutions; ensure adherence to design standards and quality processes.
• Project & Product Delivery: Manage complex technology projects from conception to delivery, ensuring alignment with business requirements, deadlines, and quality standards. Oversee CI/CD automation and improve development team efficiency.
• Stakeholder & Risk Management: Collaborate with business users, operations teams, project managers, and other technology groups to gather requirements, manage expectations, and deliver effective solutions. Identify and mitigate risks related to systems, processes, and regulatory compliance.
• System Optimization: Identify system bottlenecks and implement robust solutions to enhance resiliency, performance, and scalability. Provide technical consultation for performance testing and tuning.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Education: BS/MS in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent.
• Experience: Experience in Capital Markets technology with a focus on Securities Processing (Equities and/or Fixed Income settlements). Senior Developer experience building end-to-end solutions. Direct management experience leading development teams in a mid to large-scale bank.
• Technical Expertise: Proficiency in Java (Core, multi-threaded, J2EE), Spring Framework (Boot, Cloud, MVC, Data, Security, JMS), JavaScript (Angular, React.js, jQuery).
• Architecture: Microservice architecture and design patterns; experience with distributed environments and legacy modernization.
• Databases: Oracle RDBMS design (PL/SQL, stored procedures, triggers, performance tuning) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra); experience migrating RDBMS to cloud/NoSQL is a plus.
• Middleware: Tibco EMS, Kafka, MQ, JMS.
• Cloud & DevOps: Cloud deployments (AWS, GCP, PCF); Agile/SCRUM, CI/CD automation (Jenkins, Bamboo, UrbanCode); code versioning tools (GitHub, Bitbucket, Perforce).
• Other: High-volume/low-latency application development, transaction management (JTA), network concepts (HTTP/S, TCP/IP, TLS, DNS), and shell scripting in Unix/Linux/Windows.
• Domain Knowledge: Trade processing, settlements, payments, securities settlement lifecycle, collateral optimization, and product knowledge across Equities, Fixed Income, Repos, and related areas.
• Regulatory Awareness: Knowledge of relevant industry regulations and compliance requirements.
• Soft Skills: Excellent communication, leadership, and problem-solving abilities in a global, high-pressure environment.

What we\'ll provide you

We offer a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working from home per week) and a competitive base salary with annual reviews, plus a range of benefits:

• 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• Discretionary annual performance bonus
• Private medical care & life insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Pension plan
• Paid parental leave
• Employee discounts for you, family, and friends
• Learning and development resources

Visit Citi\'s Global Benefits page to learn more.

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