Java Full Stack Architect - Vice President

Citigroup Inc.; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Job summary

A global financial services company is seeking an Applications Development Senior Lead in Pune, India. The role involves managing application development teams, ensuring technical oversight, and contributing to the design of complex projects. Candidates should have 10-15 years of experience in the Financial Service industry, proficient in technologies like Java and Microservices, and a strong grasp of Agile methodologies. This senior position offers an opportunity to impact the firm's development strategies directly.

Qualifications

• 10-15 years of relevant experience in the Financial Service industry.
• Proven experience in solution design and complex project deliveries.
• Strong hands-on experience on Java, Spring Boot, Database, and JMS.

Responsibilities

• Manage and lead Applications Development teams to achieve goals.
• Review and analyze proposed technical solutions for projects.
• Contribute to application development strategies and ensure compliance.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Distributed Systems

Microservices

Agile methodologies

WebSocket

Elasticsearch

OpenShift

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Bitbucket

TFS

Jenkins

uDeploy

Job description

Job Description

The Applications Development Senior Lead is a senior developer 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

• 10-15 years of relevant experience in the Financial Service industry
• Experience of designing and delivering complex multi-system, distributed, highly available development projects
• Proven experience of solution design and architecture in successful deliveries using technologies like Microservices, java etc
• Experience with architectural methodologies and frameworks. Should be aware of Architectural design pattern, design principals etc
• Should have strong hands-on experience on Java, Spring Boot, Database, JDBC, JMS, Distributed System, Kakfa
• Experience using ALM and CICD tools like Bitbucket, TFS, Jenkins, uDeploy, related tools in an agile methodology
• Experience in Leading project solution architecture design on various levels, including high and detailed level design
• Experience in Solution Architecture documentation and other architectural deliverables
• Experience in providing solutions for a wide range of technologies – Java, Databae, Cloud and, Web Technologies, etc
• Experience in working in both waterfall and Agile methodologies
• Ability to adjust priorities quickly as circumstances dictate
• Demonstrated leadership and project management skills
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication
• Experience within a banking/finance environment would be preferable
• Methodology of AI includes Chunking, Embedding, AI Engineering, Prompt Engineering
• Experience with WebSocket technology
• Experience with Elasticsearch
• Experience with OpenShift

Bonus Points

• Familiarity with Angular 14
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS)
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with Agile development methodologies
• Methodology of AI includes Chunking, Embedding, AI Engineering, Prompt Engineering

Education

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

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