Senior Java Technical Lead - Vice President

Citigroup Inc.; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

CitiFX Technology is seeking a senior Java developer to work on strategic FX trade processing initiatives and to improve our software development, build and deployment practices. The role involves hands-on coding, integration, modernisation, and cloud enablement across global teams.

The candidate will champion best practices, coach junior colleagues, and contribute to high-impact projects by applying deep Java expertise and adherence to architectural standards.

Qualifications

• Strong core Java experience.
• Springboot, Spring Security, OAuth.
• 10+ YOE is a mandate.
• Clean code practices and test-driven development.
• Experience with Gradle and Maven build tools.
• Solid Linux/Unix skills.
• Experience with CI tools such as Jenkins or TeamCity.
• Kafka knowledge is advantageous.
• OpenShift and Docker experience are advantages.
• Observability exposure (Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
• GenAI exposure is sought for the role.

Responsibilities

• Support modernization of the FX trade processing platform.
• Assist migration to the strategic risk platform by building/integrating components.
• Support and help adopt cloud solutions to improve automation testing and reduce manual work.
• Reduce regression testing duration and enable parallel multi-project testing.
• Coach junior team members and promote best practices across the FX developer community.
• Resolve high-impact issues through analysis of business processes and system architecture.
• Provide expert Java development guidance aligned with the architecture blueprint.
• Develop standards for coding, testing, debugging, and deployment.
• Gain deep knowledge of how business areas integrate to achieve goals.
• Deliver innovative solutions through interpretive analysis of issues.

Skills

Core Java

Spring Boot

Spring Security

OAuth

Linux/Unix

Kafka

Openshift

Docker

CI Tools (Jenkins/TeamCity)

Observability (Grafana/OpenTelemetry)

GenAI exposure

Education

Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Gradle

Maven

Jenkins

TeamCity

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Job description

Citi FX Technology would like to hire a senior Java developer to work on strategic initiatives on our FX trade processing platform. The successful candidate will also support the improvement of our software development, build and deploy practices, and will champion the use of best practices across our global development teams.

Citi has the largest FX presence of any bank globally. Our physical presence in 83 countries gives us unrivalled insight into global FX markets. Our clients benefit from this as well as unparalleled liquidity. We trade over 140 different currencies out of our 83 centres, so it's no surprise that Citi FX has the broadest range of clients out of all the major FX banks.

Our network is our strength. We would be nothing without our people. We value their skills, motivation and experience. Increasing investment in technology has seen us roll out award winning applications.

The successful candidate will be ready to dive into running projects and contribute, hands-on, to integration, modernisation, cloud-enablement, and working with SMEs in FX Technology to create practical standards of best practice.

Responsibilities:

• Support the modernisation of our FX trade processing platform.
• Support the migration to our new strategic risk platform by building and integrating trade feed, reconciliation and control components.
• Support and help to adopt internal and external cloud solutions, to:
  • Enable improved automation testing and reduce the need for manual involvement in environment management.
  • Reduce the duration of the regression testing cycle and make it easier to test multiple projects in parallel.
  • The role will focus not only on new, greenfield projects, but will have a particular emphasis on established, older technology, supporting automation in order to facilitate the migration to strategic platforms.
• Champion best practice across our FX developer community and serve as a coach to more junior team members and analysts.
• Resolve a variety of high impact problems/projects through in-depth evaluation of complex business processes, system processes, and industry standards
• Provide expertise in area and advanced knowledge of Java development and ensure application design adheres to the overall architecture blueprint
• Utilize advanced knowledge of system flow and develop standards for coding, testing, debugging, and implementation
• Develop comprehensive knowledge of how areas of business, such as architecture and infrastructure, integrate to accomplish business goals
• Provide in-depth analysis with interpretive thinking to define issues and develop innovative solutions

Required Skills:

• Strong core Java experience
• Springboot, Spring Security, OAuth
• 10+ YOE is a mandate
• Thorough knowledge of clean code practices and test-driven development
• Experience working with build tools such as Gradle and Maven
• Solid Linux/Unix skills
• Experience of using one or more build platforms (Jenkins, TeamCity)
• Knowledge of Apache Kafka an advantage
• Knowledge of Openshift is an advantage
• Knowledge of Docker is an advantage
• Observability exposure (Grafana, Opentelemetry, etc.)
• Modern scaling, orchestration frameworks such as Conductor, Temporal is a plus.
• Experience and handson exposure to GenAI is sought for the role.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

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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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