Senior Engineering Lead - Java - Senior Vice President

Citigroup; Pune District; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Citigroup in India seeks a senior Applications Development Technology Group Manager to lead multiple engineering teams in delivering scalable, secure, and high-performance applications. You will guide architecture choices, mentor engineers, and coordinate with technology partners to meet complex business objectives.

You will leverage Java/J2EE, microservices, RESTful APIs, and cloud platforms like AWS/OpenShift to drive resilient systems, with a strong focus on CI/CD, containers, and

Qualifications

• 15+ years of relevant experience delivering technical solutions and architectures to business problems.
• Strong leadership and mentoring skills for development teams.
• Experience with microservices, RESTful APIs, and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple teams of engineers to achieve delivery goals and manage team performance.
• Provide strategic technical leadership and influence across the organization.
• Ensure adherence to standards and risk controls while driving secure, scalable solutions.
• Collaborate with senior leaders and external stakeholders to align on architecture and roadmap.

Skills

Java/J2EE

Microservices

Restful APIs

Distributed systems

Spring Boot

CI/CD

Cloud

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift/AWS

Kafka/Spark/Flink

Angular

Tools

OpenShift

AWS

Tekton/Harness/CircleCI/Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Overview of Citi:

Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management.

As a bank with a brain and a soul, Citi creates economic value that is systemically responsible and in our clients' best interests. As a financial institution that touches every region of the world and every sector that shapes your daily life, our Enterprise Operations & Technology teams are charged with a mission that rivals any large tech company. Our technology solutions are the foundations of everything we do from keeping the bank safe, managing global resources, and providing the technical tools our workers need to be successful to designing our digital architecture and ensuring our platforms provide a first-class customer experience. We reimagine client and partner experiences to deliver excellence through secure, reliable, and efficient services.

Our commitment to diversity includes a workforce that represents the clients we serve from all walks of life, backgrounds, and origins. We foster an environment where the best people want to work. We value and demand respect for others, promote individuals based on merit, and ensure opportunities for personal development are widely available to all. Ideal candidates are innovators with well-rounded backgrounds who bring their authentic selves to work and complement our culture of delivering results with pride. If you are a problem solver who seeks passion in your work, come join us. We'll enable growth and progress together.

Overview of the Role:

The Applications Development Technology Group Manager is a senior level position responsible for establishing and implementing new or revised application systems and programs in coordination with the Technology Team. The overall objective of this role is to lead applications systems analysis and programming activities.

Responsibilities:

• Lead multiple teams of engineers to accomplish established delivery goals and conduct personnel duties for team (e.g. performance evaluations, hiring and disciplinary actions)
• Provide strategic influence and technical leadership for the team while monitoring end results.
• Utilize in-depth knowledge of concepts and procedures within own area and basic knowledge of other areas to resolve issues
• Ensure essential procedures are followed and contribute to defining standards
• Integrate in-depth knowledge of applications development with overall technology function to achieve established goals
• Provide evaluative judgement based on analysis of facts in complicated, unique, and dynamic situations including drawing from internal and external sources
• Influence and negotiate with senior leaders across functions, as well as communicate with external parties as 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.

Required Qualifications

• 15 + years of relevant experience in providing technical solutions and architectures for complex business problems, identifying the benefits and risks of the solutions, and providing customer-centric design recommendations
• Strong background leading and mentoring development teams towards a common set of strategic goals
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Strong team management skills
• Strong understanding of microservices architecture, Restful APIs, and distributed systems.
• Strong experience in Java/J2EE, JTA/JPA/ORM technologies.
• Strong experience in RDBMS/Oracle/MongoDB technologies.
• Multiple years of experience with frameworks like Spring Boot.
• Exposure to Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, either on-premises or public cloud (i.e., Tekton, Harness, CircleCI, Cloudbees Jenkins, etc.)
• Relevant architecture experience in building horizontally scalable, highly available, highly resilient, and low latency applications.
• Experience with Cloud infrastructure both on-premise and public cloud (i.e., OpenShift, AWS, etc.)
• Experience with event-driven design and architecture (i.e., Kafka, Spark Flink, etc.)
• Angular experience is a plus
• Multiple years of experience with Cloud-native development and Container Orchestration tools (Serverless, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, etc.).
• Strong understanding of Ag