Java FullStack Engineering Lead - Vice President

Citi; Pune District; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Citi Pune seeks a senior full‑stack architect to lead design and delivery of scalable, enterprise‑grade applications across React, Java, and microservices. You will shape architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and collaborate with global teams on cloud and on‑prem platforms.

You will partner with product and operations to ensure robust, secure, and scalable solutions, leveraging OpenShift, Kubernetes, and CI/CD tooling in a fast-paced financial services environment.

Qualifications

• 11+ years in applications development or systems analysis.
• Experience architecting enterprise-scale, scalable apps.
• Proven track record delivering capital markets technology solutions.
• Strong problem-solving with cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Lead technology standards and platform direction globally.
• Define goals and deliver IT strategy & roadmaps for area.
• Coach and manage performance of team members.

Skills

Full stack development

React

Typescript

Node.js

Java/JVM

Microservices

API development

UI framework design

TDD / testing

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree preferred

Tools

OpenShift

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

Tekton

UDeploy

Harness

NPM

Maven

Gradle

Job description

Overview:

Finance Technology, enables Citi to achieve its day-to-day and long-term growth goals, enabling execution of Citi’s Strategy by providing services, technical solutions, and infrastructure across the bank. These solutions enable Citi to comply with regulatory mandates and empower our businesses to achieve their goals, both current and long-term. In Finance Technology we’re pushing the limits of technology. Our products and initiatives adhere to Citi’s strategic architecture principles and support the end-to-end integration of multiple global functions within the bank including Finance, Risk, and Controllers.

What we offer:

• Be part of Strategic team to develop, enhance, support and maintain solutions for Finance Technology.
• Participate in technical discussions/brainstorming sessions and define ideas and strategies for existing and future platforms.
• Gain exposure to Wholesale, Retail business across data, risk and finance.
• Work across diverse set of Finance platforms and have an opportunity to be part of re architecture and re-platforming initiatives on low code automation platforms.

Responsibilities:

• Manage all technology standards across functional area, ensuring development, understanding and adherence around the globe.
• Set goals within functional area that are delivered to appropriate Operations & Technology organizations.
• Contribute to the IT Project Leadership function to harmonize with overall business /technology objectives and ensure teams within the functional area are adequately staffed and possess the required skills sets to carry out their roles.
• Provide an environment where Subject Matter Experts can work efficiently and delivery effectively.
• Manage execution of IT strategy and roadmap for assigned technology area.
• Apply an in-depth understanding of concepts and procedures within engineering and basic knowledge of those elements in other areas.
• Responsible for training and coaching team members, performance management activities, monitoring quantity and quality of work, and addressing development needs for assigned personnel.
• Make evaluative judgments based on information analysis in complicated or unique situations, utilizing multiple sources of information.
• Negotiate with senior leaders (across functions) and communicate and negotiate with external parties.

Qualifications:

• 11+ years of strong experience in Application Development or systems analysis role.
• Strong Experience on Architecting Enterprise highly scalable applications
• Extensive experience system analysis and in programming of software applications. Experience in managing and implementing successful projects.
• Proven engineering experience building robust, scalable, and maintainable applications in the Capital Markets Technology industry.
• Build, deploy, and test application components in a development environment during the implementation phase working with all layers of the application stack.
• Work proactively & independently to address project requirements, and articulate issues/challenges with enough lead time to address project delivery risks.
• Influence and negotiate with senior technical leaders from partner teams of software engineers, devops and production support staff to deliver robust software solutions. Ensure the team is collaborating effectively across functions.
• Ability to adjust priorities quickly as circumstances dictate.
• Experience working in Financial Services or a large complex and/or global environment. Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication. Comprehensive knowledge of design metrics, analytics tools, benchmarking activities and related reporting to identify best practices.

Technical Skills:

• 11+ years of strong experience in Full stack development using React, Typescript, Node.js, stylesheets, Java/JVM Based Language Like Java, Kotlin, Microservices. Should have strong hand-on experience designing and building UI framework using react in align with latest UI framework practices and guidelines.
• Strong experience of API Development and its Eco-systems.
• Hands-on working experience React, Java script, Java / Spring / Spring Cloud / Spring Data JPA / Spring Boot Microservices.
• Should have troubleshooting skills using debuggers, logs, etc.
• Strong understanding of test-driven development using Jest, Cypress, Java script, Junit, Mockito.
• Experience with Public clouds like AWS, GCP will be added advantage.
• Experience with OpenShift, Docker and Kubernetes.
• Understanding of build and deployment tools like, Jenkin. Tekton, UDeploy, Harness, NPM, Maven, Gradle.
• Implement Unit Testing and TDD to ensure software quality and maintainability
• Proficiency in SQL Databases, MongoDB, Oracle preferred.

Nice to have:

• Experience on Observability and monitoring tech stack as well.
• Understanding of Gen AI based Productivity tool like Microsoft Co-Pilot, Devin etc. Understanding Middleware like Tibco RV, EMS, Solace, Kafka etc.
• Understanding of Python, Gen AI will be plus.

Educational Qualification:

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

Job Family Group: Technology

Job Family: Applications Development

Time Type: Full time

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