Application Development - Vice President

Citi; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 42,000 - 73,000; Full time

Job summary

Citi Futures and Derivatives Clearing Technology is seeking a Vice President to lead the data and reporting platform, overseeing design, architecture and delivery of scalable microservices in a hybrid environment.

You will partner with business stakeholders, QA, BAs and product teams to drive DevOps, CI/CD and cloud-native solutions using Java, Spring Boot and Angular, focusing on performance, reliability and observability.

Qualifications

• Strong experience designing and building enterprise applications and data architecture
• Hands-on leadership in solution architecture and development
• Experience with microservices and cloud-native architectures
• Proficiency with front-end and back-end technologies (Angular/React, Spring Boot/Cloud, API)
• Experience with DevOps, CI/CD and testing frameworks; SOLID principles

Responsibilities

• Lead design and development of the data and reporting application and data integration
• Provide technical direction and deep analyses to define problems and implement innovative solutions
• Collaborate with business users, BAs, product managers and other teams to understand needs and craft solutions
• Develop software using microservices cloud-native architecture with scalable, testable systems
• Contribute to CI/CD implementation and DevOps practices
• Ensure data quality, governance, and observability across the platform
• Mentor team members and foster a collaborative, learning-focused environment
• Partner with QA and Support to ensure robust testing and production stability

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Angular

Database

Kafka

Job description

Application Development - Vice President

Location(s):

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Job Type:

Hybrid

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Job Overview

About Team and Platform

Citi Futures and Derivatives Clearing Technology supports a rapidly growing business that uses technological innovation to maintain competitive advantage in a constantly evolving market. Working closely with the business, external vendors and internal technology teams, you would build-out and maintain our next generation clearing platforms. You would manage complex projects that will involve everything from incorporating a new functionality within the existing ecosystem, to analyzing new requirements, documenting solutions, managing implementation and testing systems, ensuring that they are fit for purpose. You would regularly work with a range of Business Analysts and high-profile stakeholders.

The Data and Reporting team develops and supports a platform that provides client reporting and feeds other downstream applications within Citi. It provides reporting such as real-time trades, positions, initial and variation margin, positions and balances for external clients and internal users such as traders, operations and sales. A major ongoing initiative is to modernize the existing platform in order to provide scale and to enhance product offerings and new business requirements.

As the development lead for the data and reporting, you will lead the team to deliver best in class technical solutions to meet the needs of our Futures and Clearing business. This includes researching best practices, designing the application and data and integration architecture, designing the solutions, and delivering our application to the business. The team works closely with cross-functional business users, QA engineers and BAs collaborating to deliver best in class solutions. This role suits experienced architects/developers who have excellent communication and are passionate about driving technical solutions through leadership, excellence, collaboration.

Responsibilities:

• Lead design and development of technical solutions for the data and reporting application and data integration utilizing best engineering practices
• Contribute to technical direction and enhancement as a technical expert in development and implementation phases, providing in-depth and sophisticated analyses to define problems and develop innovative solutions
• Work closely with business users, stakeholders, BAs, product managers and other development teams to understand problem space, brainstorm ideas, approaches, and solutions.
• Design and develop software applications using microservices cloud-native architecture to be resilient, stateless, scalable, and testable with automation and reusability as key objectives.
• Contribute to CI/CD implementation using DevOps best practices based on industry and Citi standards and work to implement them.
• Work with key business SMEs to develop an in-depth understanding of their critical data and reporting needs and business impact of existing data quality and data integrity issues on a detailed level
• Contribute to technical direction and strategic decisions as a technical expert in all development and implementation phases, providing in-depth and sophisticated analyses to define problems and develop innovative solutions
• Demonstrate a data-driven approach to problem-solving and decision-making, utilizing metrics, and performance indicators to assess team efficiency and identify improvement opportunities.
• Partner with QA team to ensure robust testing framework is utilized for functional and nonfunctional testing for the release cycles.
• Partner with Support team to ensure stability of production environment with proactive monitoring and health checks.
• Partner with other Citi development teams to build APIs, integrations and share components that are critical to our platform’s success.
• Exhibit strong leadership qualities, fostering a positive and collaborative work environment, providing guidance and mentorship to team members, and promoting a culture of continuous learning.
• Work closely with business users, stakeholders, BAs, product managers and other development teams to understand problem space, brainstorm ideas, approaches, and solutions.

Qualifications:

• Strong experience in designing and building best in class enterprise application and data architecture with site engineering excellence
• Strong hands‑on experience in leading solution architecture and development including front-end web development and back-end application development with scalable data architecture
• Strong knowledge of building scalable systems - Microservice based architecture
• Hands‑on development experience with traditional and modern data systems (relational/non‑relational databases, cloud/big data platform, data quality and lineage tools)
• Hands‑on development experience in database, data models and a large data warehouse. Oracle preferred
• Experience as a dev lead for software development and implementation
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills
• Strong hands‑on experience with front-end, back-end and infrastructure technologies including Angular/React, Spring Boot/Cloud, API
• Strong hands‑on experience with modern software paradigms including cloud-native (AWS, Docker) and microservices
• Experience with application security best practises (secret management, Oauth/PKI)
• Experience in implementation of DevOps such as CI/CD and modern best practises such as testing frameworks and the SOLID principles; CI/CD tooling, automation of testing tools
• Passion and commitment for adopting new technologies with exploratory mind‑set
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum work environment
• Experience in building observability and monitoring
• Innovative ideas and can‑do attitude to work under pressure
• Experience working in the financial services is a plus but not required
• Experience in GenAI/Agentic AI and AI agent integration automation development is a plus
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, enabling effective collaboration with cross‑functional teams, stakeholders, and management.

Technical Skills - Java , Spring Boot , Angular , Database , Kafka

Job Family Group:

Technology

Job Family:

Applications Development

Time Type:

Full time

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