Application Development Group Manager -Senior Vice President

Citi; India; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Citi in India seeks an Applications Development Group Manager to lead multiple Scrum teams across distributed locations. You will drive end-to-end delivery, enforce engineering excellence, and guide AI/automation initiatives while maintaining enterprise-grade security and governance.

This role demands hands-on architectural expertise and strong people management at scale. Applicants should have 15+ years in software development, experience leading global technology teams, and a proven track

Qualifications

• 15+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience in applications development.
• Experience in management.
• Experience managing global technology teams.
• Working knowledge of industry practices and standards.
• Strong written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and manage multiple cross-functional Scrum teams across globally distributed locations.
• Drive end-to-end delivery accountability with clear milestones and on-time outcomes.
• Champion engineering excellence, Agile maturity, and CI/CD practices.
• Manage personnel, coaching, career development, and capacity planning.
• Serve as senior technical authority for enterprise-scale distributed systems.
• Oversee architecture modernization and secure SDLC governance.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Agile governance

Technical authority

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Angular

Java 21

Spring Boot 4.x

Docker

OpenShift/Kubernetes

SonarQube

Snyk

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.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Engineering Leadership & Multi-Scrum Governance

• Lead, mentor, and manage multiple cross-functional Scrum teams (Software Engineers, Solution Architects, and QA/Automation Engineers) across globally distributed locations.
• Drive end-to-end delivery accountability across concurrent Books of Work (BOW), ensuring clear milestones, proactive dependency management, and on-time business outcomes.
• Champion engineering excellence, Agile maturity, and continuous integration/deployment (CI/CD) best practices across all pods under management.
• Conduct personnel management responsibilities including technical coaching, talent acquisition, career development, performance evaluations, and team capacity planning.

Hands-On Technical Authority & Solution Architecture

• Serve as the senior technical authority for enterprise-scale distributed systems, validating and steering high-level solution designs and low-level architectural patterns.
• Demonstrate active hands-on technical proficiency in Angular , Java 21, Spring Boot 4.x, Cloud-Native Microservices
• Establish and enforce rigorous coding standards, design patterns, automated test coverage gates, and continuous code quality reviews (SonarQube, Snyk).
• Drive architectural modernization initiatives, transitioning legacy frameworks into modular, scalable, event-driven, and containerized services (Docker, OpenShift/Kubernetes).

AI & Agentic Automation Transformation

• Actively drive the adoption of Generative AI, Agentic AI, and intelligent autonomous workflows across the development and operational lifecycle.
• Identify repeat, recurring, and boilerplate engineering/operational tasks (e.g., automated code reviews, test generation, schema migrations, log analytics, incident triage) and architect multi-agent or prompt-engineered solutions to automate them.
• Foster a culture of AI-assisted engineering and experimentation within teams while strictly adhering to enterprise AI guardrails, security standards, and governance policies.

Stakeholder Influence, Risk & Governance

• Influence, align, and negotiate with senior business stakeholders, Product Owners, Enterprise Architecture, and Operations partners to define product roadmaps and strategic technical priorities.
• Appropriately assess risk when business and architectural decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients, and assets.
• Ensure strict adherence to Citi's secure SDLC policies, regulatory standards, information security controls, vulnerability remediation timelines, and internal/external audit readiness.

Recommended Qualifications

• 15+ years of relevant experience
• Experience in applications development
• Experience in management
• Experience managing global technology teams
• Working knowledge of industry practices and standards
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication

Education

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

Job Family Group

Technology

Job Family

Applications Development

Time Type

Full time

Most Relevant Skills

Please see the requirements listed above.

Other Relevant Skills

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

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