Applications Development Group Manager - Senior Vice President

Citibank (Switzerland) AG; Jersey City, Northern (NJ, KY); Hybrid; USD 177,000 - 265,000; Full time

Job summary

Citibank (Switzerland) AG is seeking an Applications Development Group Manager in Jersey City to lead design, delivery, and evolution of OTC clearing platforms. You will guide architecture, drive cross-functional initiatives, and champion modern engineering practices including AI-assisted development and observability.

The role emphasizes collaboration with product, operations, and technology stakeholders, and requires 10+ years in software engineering with leadership experience in capital

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering and application development experience, preferably in capital markets or clearing tech.
• Experience leading complex engineering initiatives in large-scale, distributed environments.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across OTC Clearing technology estate and ensure scalable, secure solutions.
• Lead major delivery workstreams from inception to production deployment and coordinate across teams.
• Drive engineering practices, automation, and PDLC improvements, including AI-enabled development tooling.
• Mentor engineers and promote best practices in software design, code quality, and reliability.
• Support platform stability, monitoring, incident management, and disaster recovery planning.

Skills

Software engineering

Distributed systems

APIs

CI/CD

Observability

DevOps

AI-assisted development

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree

Tools

Messaging systems

Data processing frameworks

APIs tooling

Job description

## Applications Development Group Manager - Senior Vice PresidentApply: Hybrid: Jersey City New Jersey United States: Full time: Posted Today: 26996823The Lead Engineer is a senior engineering leadership role within **Centrally Cleared Over-the-Counter (OTC) Derivatives Clearing Technology**, responsible for leading the design, delivery, and continuous evolution of strategic clearing platforms supporting global OTC clearing businesses across multiple Central Counterparties (CCPs). The role combines deep technical leadership with hands-on ownership of key delivery initiatives, including new product onboarding, regulatory change, platform modernization, and scalability improvements. The successful candidate will lead significant workstreams and cross-functional engineering efforts while driving improvements in software development lifecycle practices, engineering productivity, automation, and operational excellence. A key aspect of the role is championing modern engineering practices and emerging technologies, including AI-assisted software development, automation frameworks, developer tooling, and platform engineering capabilities, to improve delivery efficiency, software quality, and organizational effectiveness. The role requires close partnership with Product, Operations, Business, and Technology stakeholders and offers the opportunity to influence the future architecture and engineering direction of Citi's OTC Clearing platforms. **Responsibilities** **Technical Leadership & Architecture*** Provide technical leadership across the OTC Clearing technology estate, ensuring solutions are scalable, resilient, secure, and aligned to strategic architecture objectives.* Lead the design and implementation of complex technology solutions supporting new products, new CCP onboarding, business growth initiatives, and regulatory requirements.* Drive engineering decisions across system architecture, integration patterns, data models, and application design.* Partner with senior engineers and architects across Markets Technology and enterprise engineering teams to ensure alignment with firmwide standards and strategic direction.* Perform technical reviews and provide guidance on architecture, design quality, performance, and maintainability.**Program & Workstream Leadership*** Lead major delivery initiatives and technology workstreams from inception through production deployment.* Coordinate across development, QA, production support, infrastructure, operations, and business stakeholders to ensure successful execution.* Manage competing priorities while balancing strategic investment, technical debt reduction, platform stability, and regulatory commitments.* Identify risks, dependencies, and delivery challenges and drive effective mitigation strategies.* Provide regular progress updates and technical status reporting to senior management and project stakeholders.**Engineering Excellence & Productivity*** Drive continuous improvements in engineering practices, development processes, and delivery methodologies.* Establish and promote best practices for software engineering, code quality, testing, release management, observability, and operational readiness.* Lead initiatives to improve the Product Development Lifecycle (PDLC), including increased automation, standardization, and reduction of manual processes.* Champion adoption of AI-enabled development capabilities, developer productivity tooling, knowledge management solutions, and software engineering automation.* Measure and improve engineering effectiveness through appropriate metrics and feedback mechanisms.**Platform Stability & Operational Excellence*** Drive improvements in platform reliability, resiliency, recoverability, and operational supportability.* Partner with production support and SRE teams to improve monitoring, alerting, incident management, and root-cause analysis practices.* Ensure solutions meet established standards for performance, capacity, security, and availability.* Support disaster recovery planning, testing, and operational readiness activities.**Collaboration & Mentoring*** Develop and mentor engineers across the organization, promoting strong engineering culture and technical excellence.* Foster effective collaboration across global teams and disciplines.* Act as a trusted technical advisor to business, operations, and technology stakeholders.* Contribute to hiring, talent development, and succession planning efforts within the engineering organization.**Qualifications** **Required Experience*** 10+ years of experience in software engineering and application development, preferably within capital markets or clearing technology.* Demonstrated experience leading complex engineering initiatives in large-scale, distributed environments.* Proven track record delivering strategic technology projects from design through implementation.* Experience leading technical teams or major project workstreams involving multiple stakeholders and delivery groups.**Technical Expertise*** Strong software engineering background with expertise in designing and building scalable enterprise applications.* Experience working with distributed systems, messaging technologies, event-driven architectures, APIs, and large-scale data processing solutions.* Strong knowledge of DevOps, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and modern software engineering practices.* Experience driving engineering productivity initiatives, automation strategies, and development lifecycle improvements.* Familiarity with AI-assisted software development tools and emerging engineering productivity technologies.**Business & Domain Knowledge*** Experience within OTC derivatives, clearing, post-trade processing, futures, or related capital markets domains preferred.* Understanding of clearing workflows, trade lifecycle processing, and regulatory requirements affecting financial markets technology.* Ability to translate business requirements into practical and scalable technical solutions.**Leadership Competencies*** Strong technical leadership with the ability to influence without direct authority.* Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.* Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in complex, global organizations.* Strong problem-solving capabilities and a passion for continuous improvement.* Proven ability to mentor engineers and elevate engineering standards across teams. **Education:*** Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience* Master’s degree preferred------------------------------------------------------## **Job Family Group:**Technology------------------------------------------------------## **Job Family:**Applications Development------------------------------------------------------## **Time Type:**Full time------------------------------------------------------## **Primary Location:**Jersey City New Jersey United States------------------------------------------------------## **Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:**$176,720.00 - $265,080.00In addition to salary, Citi’s offerings may also include, for eligible employees, discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards. Citi offers competitive employee benefits, including: medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs. Citi also offers paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays. For additional information regarding Citi employee benefits, please visit citibenefits.com. Available offerings may vary by jurisdiction, job level, and date of hire.