Application Development Manager - Vice President

Citigroup Inc.; Pune District; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 9,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Citigroup Inc. is seeking an Applications Development Senior Manager to lead cross-functional Scrum teams across distributed locations, delivering complex software solutions.

You will act as the senior technical authority on enterprise-scale distributed systems, shaping high-level designs and enforcing coding standards. The role emphasizes hands-on architecture in Java 21, Spring Boot 4.x, and cloud-native microservices, with a focus on CI/CD, modern data pipelines, and governance of NFRs

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• Master's degree preferred.
• Experience leading large, cross-functional teams in financial services.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and manage cross-functional Scrum teams across globally distributed locations.
• Oversee end-to-end delivery across multiple Books of Work with clear milestones.
• Drive AI/automation initiatives within development and operations lifecycles.
• Architect and govern data platforms and infrastructure modernization.

Skills

Leadership

Scrum master

Java

Spring Boot

CI/CD

Cloud-native

Architectural design

Distributed systems

Mentoring

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

OpenShift/Kubernetes

Docker

Kafka

IBM MQ

Oracle 19c

MongoDB

Snyk

SonarQube

Job description

The Applications Development Senior 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.

1. 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.

2. 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 Java 21, Spring Boot 4.x, Cloud-Native Microservices, and distributed persistence/messaging architectures.
• 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).

3. 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.

4. Data Platform & Infrastructure Modernization

• Oversee the architecture and optimization of high-throughput data and reporting pipelines leveraging relational engines (Oracle 19c / OraaS) and distributed document stores (MongoDB 7.x/8.x / MaaS).
• Design and govern high-volume event streaming and messaging fabrics utilizing Apache Kafka and IBM MQ.
• Ensure non-functional requirements (NFRs) such as high availability, fault tolerance, active-active failover, disaster recovery (RTO/RPO), and low-latency response times are rigorously met.

Recommended Qualifications:

• 10-15 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

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.

Job Family Group:

Technology

Job Family:

Applications Development

Time Type:

Full time

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