Senior UI Architect - Senior Vice President

Citi; Pune District; On-site; INR 4,500,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Citi is seeking an Engineering Lead in Pune to steer the design, hands-on development, and delivery of a cloud-native platform for Markets Sales. The role demands deep Java, React/Angular, and CI/CD expertise with hands-on coding and strong leadership across global teams.

You will mentor, manage budgets, and collaborate with senior stakeholders to ensure scalable, resilient solutions in an Agile setup. Prior banking experience is a plus.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of relevant hands on experience.
• Experience designing and delivering complex multi-system, distributed development projects.
• Proven experience of solution design and architecture using Microservices and Java.

Responsibilities

• Manage multiple teams to achieve goals and conduct personnel duties.
• Provide strategic influence and control over resources, budget and planning.
• Resolve issues with in-depth knowledge of applications development and technology functions.
• Ensure procedures are followed and contribute to standards.
• Influence senior leaders and communicate with external parties as necessary.
• Assess risk in business decisions and ensure compliance with laws and policies.

Skills

Java

Angular/React

Spring Boot

Microservices

Distributed systems

Leadership

Stakeholder communication

WebSocket

OpenShift

Kafka

JMS

Tools

Bitbucket

TFS

Jenkins

uDeploy

OpenShift

Kafka

JDBC

Elasticsearch

Job description

Engineering Lead, Markets Sales Domain Lead the strategic design, hands on development, and successful delivery of a next-generation, cloud-native platform for the Markets Sales Business. This role requires deep technical proficiency in Java, React/Angular, and modern CI/CD methodologies, coupled with a commitment to hands on coding. Drive initiatives within an Agile development framework, providing strong technical leadership, mentorship, and managerial oversight to ensure the delivery of high-quality, scalable, and resilient solutions.

Key skills

• Java
• Angular/React
• Cloud Native Technology
• Agile Ways of Working
• Manage teams globally
• Ability to communicate effectively with Senior Stakeholders in Business, Operations and Technology.

Additional Job Description

The Applications Development Group Manager is a senior management level position responsible for accomplishing results through the management of a team or department in an effort to establish and implement new or revised application systems and programs in coordination with the Technology Team. The overall objective of this role is to drive applications systems analysis and programming activities.

Responsibilities

• Manage multiple teams of professionals to accomplish established goals and conduct personnel duties for team (e.g. performance evaluations, hiring and disciplinary actions)
• Provide strategic influence and exercise control over resources, budget management and planning 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 judgement 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.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of relevant hands on experience
• Experience of designing and delivering complex multi-system, distributed, highly available development projects.
• Proven experience of solution design and architecture in successful deliveries using technologies like Microservices, java etc
• Experience with architectural methodologies and frameworks. Should be aware of Architectural design pattern, design principals etc
• Should have strong hands on experience on Java, Spring Boot, Database, JDBC, JMS, Distributed System, Kakfa
• Experience using ALM and CICD tools like Bitbucket, TFS, Jenkins, uDeploy, related tools in an agile methodology.
• Experience in Leading project solution architecture design on various levels, including high and detailed level design.
• Experience in Solution Architecture documentation and other architectural deliverables.
• Experience in providing solutions for a wide range of technologies – Java, Databae, Cloud and, Web Technologies, etc.
• Experience in working in both waterfall and Agile methodologies.
• Ability to adjust priorities quickly as circumstances dictate.
• Demonstrated leadership and project management skills.
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication.
• Experience within a banking/finance environment would be preferable.
• Methodology of AI includes Chunking, Embedding, AI Engineering, Prompt Engineering
• Experience with WebSocket technology.
• Experience with Elasticsearch.
• Experience with OpenShift.

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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