Cloud Application Engineering Lead -Senior Vice President

Citigroup Inc.; Chennai District; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Citigroup Inc. is seeking a senior Applications Development Technology Lead Analyst to establish and implement new or revised enterprise application systems in coordination with the Technology Team.

The role requires deep hands-on cloud and platform engineering expertise across AWS, Kubernetes, IaC, CI/CD, and observability to deliver scalable, secure, and resilient financial services applications. Responsibilities include leading architecture, engineering and production delivery of large-scale

Qualifications

• 13+ years of relevant experience
• Experience in implementing projects
• Experience in systems analysis and programming of software applications
• Demonstrated SME in area(s) of Applications Development
• Demonstrated knowledge of client core business functions
• Demonstrated leadership, project management, and development skills
• Relationship and consensus building skills

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, engineering and production delivery of large-scale AWS-based applications
• Define and implement scalable platforms and modern cloud architectures
• Collaborate with technology teams to design, build and optimize solutions in AWS
• Ensure security, governance, observability and disaster recovery patterns
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to engineers and leads

Skills

AWS Cloud Architecture

Backend & Microservices

Data Architecture

Full-Stack Architecture

Platform Engineering

DevSecOps

Event-driven Architecture

Distributed Systems

Engineering Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

Java/Spring Boot

Kubernetes (EKS)

Kafka/MSK

Terraform/IaC

CI/CD

MongoDB Atlas

Angular/React

REST APIs

Job description

The Applications Development Technology Senior Lead Analyst is a senior level position responsible for establishing and implementing new or revised application systems and programs in coordination with the Technology Team. Experienced in desigining , building and optimising scalable platform. AWS Cloud Engineering, Cloud Modernization, Platform Engineering, Kubernetes (AKS/EKS), Terraform, ARM, Bicep, CloudFormation, Python, Bash, SQL, CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, AWS DevOps,AWS Networking, Security and Governance, Observability, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Disaster Recovery, DevOps Automation, Infrastructure as Code

Responsibilities

Proven experience leading the architecture, engineering and production delivery of large-scale, highly available enterprise applications on AWS, AWS certified with strong hands-on architectural depth across application, cloud, data, integration and DevSecOps.

Key capabilities

• AWS & Cloud Architecture: Deep experience designing production applications on AWS using EKS, MSK/Kafka, networking, IAM, ALB/API Gateway, S3, KMS, Secrets Manager and VPC endpoints, including multi-AZ resilience and disaster recovery.
• Backend & Distributed Systems: Strong Java/Spring Boot, microservices, REST/event-driven APIs and distributed-system design, including concurrency, caching, resiliency, idempotency and failure/recovery patterns.
• Data Architecture: Experience with MongoDB Atlas and relational/data-lake platforms, including data modelling, indexing, consistency, performance and high-volume operational workloads.
• Full-Stack Architecture: Ability to own end-to-end application architecture across backend and modern Angular/React frontends, including API/BFF patterns, authentication, performance and scalability.
• Platform Engineering & DevSecOps: Strong Kubernetes/EKS, containers, Terraform/IaC, CI/CD, observability, autoscaling, SRE, security and production engineering experience.
• Integration & Event-driven Architecture: Proven delivery using Kafka/MSK, enterprise APIs and asynchronous/event-driven integration patterns across complex enterprise ecosystems.
• Scale & Resilience: Demonstrable experience building systems processing high transaction/event volumes, supporting thousands of users and meeting demanding latency, availability, resiliency and recovery requirements.
• Engineering Leadership: Proven ownership of architecture and engineering strategy, technical governance and standards, mentoring senior engineers/engineering leads, resolving complex production problems and influencing senior technology and business stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 13+ years of relevant experience
• Experience in implementing projects
• Experience in systems analysis and programming of software applications
• Demonstrated Subject Matter Expert (SME) in area(s) of Applications Development
• Demonstrated knowledge of client core business functions
• Demonstrated leadership, project management, and development skills
• Relationship and consensus building skills

Education

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

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