Senior Engineering Lead - Java - Senior Vice President

Citigroup Inc.; Pune District; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 5,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Citi is seeking an experienced Applications Development Group Manager in Pune to lead multiple engineering teams, driving architecture, development, and delivery of scalable applications. You will influence senior leaders, ensure risk controls, and align with Citi’s technology strategy.

The role requires 15+ years of relevant experience, strong Java/J2EE and microservices expertise, and proficiency with CI/CD, cloud, and data streaming technologies. A Bachelor’s degree is expected.

Qualifications

• Must have strong leadership and mentoring experience to guide development teams.
• Proven ability to design customer-centric technical solutions and architectures.
• Excellent analytical skills with attention to detail and risk awareness.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple engineering teams to meet delivery goals and manage personnel actions.
• Provide strategic technical leadership and influence across the organization.
• Resolve issues using in-depth knowledge of applications development and technology functions.
• Help define standards and ensure procedures are followed.
• Align applications development with broader technology goals and capabilities.
• Make evaluative judgments based on complex data and sources.
• Negotiate with senior leaders and communicate with external parties as needed.
• Monitor risk and ensure compliance with laws, policies, and controls.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder management

Agile methodologies

Team management

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Jira Software

Confluence

Spring Boot

Kafka

Spark

Flink

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

AWS

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 Agile methodologies and frameworks (e.g., Scrum, SAFe) and working in Agile teams.
• Experience managing multi‑location teams
• Experience working in a diverse/multiple stakeholder environment
• Experience with Atlassian tools (Jira Software, Confluence)
• Experience with data integration practices

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience

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Job Family Group:

Technology

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Job Family:

Applications Development

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Time Type:

Full time

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Most Relevant Skills

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Other Relevant Skills

For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

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