Java Technical Lead Analyst

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

Job summary

Citi is seeking a senior Applications Development professional in Chennai with extensive hands-on experience in enterprise applications, cards and payments. The role focuses on technical leadership, modernizing mainframe assets to microservices, and delivering scalable, reliable software across distributed environments across time zones.

Strong expertise in Core Java, Spring, microservices, CI/CD pipelines, containers, and cloud platforms is essential.

Qualifications

• Graduate/Post Graduate degree in engineering or computer science streams
• Demonstrable analytical and quantitative skills
• 12-15 years of hands on experience in technical design and delivery of enterprise applications especially in the Cards and Payments space
• Demonstrable experience of having led and directed engineering teams

Responsibilities

• Lead and provide technical oversight across applications development and review proposed technical solutions
• Contribute to formulation of strategies for applications development and other functional areas
• Drive high quality systems design and adherence to architectural principles
• Mentor and grow engineers and teams for technical excellence

Skills

Core Java

Spring framework

Microservices

API gateway

Kubernetes

Docker

Cloud (AWS/Azure)

CI/CD

OpenShift

Kafka

Education

Engineering or CS degree

Postgraduate degree

Tools

IBM z/OS

DB2

JCL

CICS

VSAM

Git

ELK

Job description

• 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
• Ensure essential procedures are followed and contribute to defining standards negotiating with external parties when necessary
• Engage in innovative problem solving activities, requiring conceptual thinking creating 'out of the box' solutions with prototypes and pilots.
• Foster an environment of engineering excellence and innovation
• Enable the team to scale adoption of TDD/BDD practices to ensure delivery of high quality code with low rates of production defects.
• Instrument services and solutions to ensure deployed software is scalable and reliable.
• Establish patterns and guidance to teams to analyze monolithic applications to identify seams and areas to carve out to Microservices on an ongoing basis
• Implement patterns and guidelines to design portable Microservices with associated bounded context
• Design interoperability with existing monolithic applications and new Microservices as transformation progresses
• Drive high quality of systems design and adherence to global architecture principles
• Lead teams that gather and document technical requirements, code specifications, test plans and results, and other deliverables required for multiple projects, perform analysis, solution & design, development, testing, implementation and maintenance of applications
• Provide expertise in technical analysis and be able to resolve complex issues through in-depth evaluation of business processes, system processes
• Ensure alignment to architectural assertions and constantly look for opportunities to modernize application
• Be a self-starter and develop a detailed knowledge of the eco-system the application operates in
• Work effectively with remote teams, with a focus on fostering positive working relationships
• Drive application optimization and tuning with objective to drive running costs down
• Establish collaborative and productive relationships with diverse stakeholder teams located across time zones to arrive at best in class global solutions for the Bank
• Mentor and grow engineers and teams, enabling a culture of technical excellence
• 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.

Job Qualifications

Qualification:

• Graduate/Post Graduate degree in engineering or computer science streams
• Demonstrable analytical and quantitative skills
• 12-15 years of hands on experience in technical design and delivery of enterprise applications especially in the Cards and Payments space
• Demonstrable experience of having led and directed engineering teams

Core Technical competencies

• Past roles as a technical/engineering lead with demonstrable experience having led and directed software development teams
• Past roles with Design, Development experience working with cards or retail bank applications and/or packages an advantage
• Engineering talent with working knowledge and experience integrating and/or transforming enterprise Mainframe systems to modern event driven, distributed & cloud technologies, forward-compatible and open to continuous learning will be a big plus
• Extensive experience in having led technical teams, implemented innovative solutions and been responsible for delivery of enterprise solutions in any one of the following technologies:
• Core Java (1.7 or higher), J2EE, Spring framework, Spring boot, RHEL OpenShift
• IBM z/OS, COBOL, JCL, CICS, VSAM, DB2 with hands on experience in a SYSPLEX/CICSPLEX environment and experience with modernizing Mainframe applications
• Hands on experience wiring with microservices architecture, API gateway.
• Good exposure to various Database technologies (DB2/Oracle/MongoDB)
• Experience in designing applications that produce/consume SOAP/Rest web services and/or Open APIs
• Experience working with modern messaging pub/sub technologies like, Kafka, Solace etc.
• Proficiency with version control systems (e.g., Git) and modern CI/CD practices.
• Hands-on knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, deployment tooling and infrastructure-level concepts, including ELK, Docker, Kubernetes, Azure Cloud, and AWS S3.
• Agile Methodologies: Solid experience working in and practicing Agile development methodologies.
• AI and Prompt Engineering: Wide exposure to and practical experience with smart AI tools and the ability to seamlessly embed AI tools in daily workflows.
• Experience working with enterprise transaction processing systems with focus on recovery, stability, reliability, scalability and performance
• Experience in performance tuning of complex applications with significant volumes

Other desired Traits

• Working Knowledge and Experience with automating development processes, various levels of automated testing
• A good understanding of the cards & payments industry fundamentals and ongoing payment industry trends
• Ability to work with remote teams across geographies and organization lines
• Strong team player able to motivate team to respond to multiple demands and able to manage changing priorities and meet challenging timelines
• Collaborative and adaptive, with good communication skills. Prior experience working in a large Agile teams using scrum methodology is desirable
• Ability to own delivery responsibilities end to end and be accountable for driving results for the team
• Ability to formulate processes and procedures and quickly put them in to practice
• Strong interpersonal and articulation skills (spoken and written)
• Strong team orientation and commitment to overall team success; willing to go above and beyond to ensure team success; intense customer focus and commitment to driving quality
• Effective time management skills in order to manage multiple priorities with flexibility on time zones and timelines
• Logical thinking, High analytical and problem solving skills; innovative and solutions oriented
• Enthusiastic and quick-learner in a rapidly changing environment.
• Ability to remain abreast of industry technical trends and new development to maintain current skills and remain current with industry standards

Job Family Group

Technology

Job Family

Applications Development

Time Type

Full time

Most Relevant Skills

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Other Relevant Skills

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