Java Technical Lead - Vice President

Citi; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Citi is hiring a Java Technical Lead - Vice President for its New York location. The role involves leading large-scale software initiatives, guiding architecture, and mentoring engineers across teams.

You will work closely with TPMs and engineering managers to align technical direction with business goals. The position requires deep Java expertise, strong leadership, and hands-on experience with scalable microservices architectures.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Java development with large-scale systems.
• Strong leadership and mentoring of engineering teams.
• Experience guiding architecture and design decisions across multiple projects.
• Experience with microservices and scalable architectures.

Responsibilities

• Drive large-scale projects and act as development lead.
• Guide and influence cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
• Define and enforce architecture standards and best practices.
• Mentor SDEs and engineering leads.
• Communicate risks and progress to senior leadership.

Skills

Java

Technical leadership

Mentoring

Architectural design

Microservices

Job description

Java Technical Lead - Vice President

Working at Citi is far more than just a job. A career with us means joining a team of approximately 219,000 dedicated people from around the globe. At Citi, you'll have the opportunity to grow your career, give back to your community and make a real impact.

Job Overview

The Digital S/W Eng Lead Analyst is a strategic professional who stays abreast of developments within own field and contributes to directional strategy by considering their application in own job and the business. Recognized technical authority for an area within the business. Requires basic commercial awareness. There are typically multiple people within the business that provide the same level of subject matter expertise. Developed communication and diplomacy skills are required in order to guide, influence and convince others, in particular colleagues in other areas and occasional external customers. Significant impact on the area through complex deliverables. Provides advice and counsel related to the technology or operations of the business. Work impacts an entire area, which eventually affects the overall performance and effectiveness of the sub-function/job family.

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for executing and driving results on large-scale efforts or multiple smaller efforts and serving as a development lead for most medium and large projects. This includes expertise with application development methodologies and standards for program analysis, design, coding, testing, debugging and implementation.
• Accountable for exhibiting a strong understanding of client core business functions.
• Required to support situations in which end user consultation is required to identify system function specifications and incorporate them into overall system design and delivery. Additionally, utilize comprehensive knowledge of multiple areas within technology to achieve technological objectives.
• Independent work style, requiring little or no guidance by more senior developers. Decisions will make a significant, measurable impact on the business goals for the client organization. During team discussions you will play a significant role with TPMs and engineering managers to determine potential risks to a schedule.
• Assist in the planning and managing of application development assignments generally involving large budgets, cross functional projects or multiple projects. This includes effectively understanding and analyzing both technical and business risks and impact.
• Expected to effectively communicate those risks to the business owners, so that they can make informed decisions.
• Accountable for providing guidance on architecturally significant efforts during the preplanning phase, and ensuring principles and best practices are followed prior to initiation of work. In doing so, closely watch and evaluate Digital roadmaps, including impacts to support upcoming journeys.
• Publish design review extensions, and provide documented guidance aligned to sprint plans and timelines.
• Be part of the design review board that will focus on the design process, search for generic patterns, and, at the same time, share best practices across the organization.
• Publish design patterns across lines of business and domain commonalities. Drive design reviews for Next Gen Architecture (NGA) and Plan of Record (POR) projects, supporting design principles and best practices.
• Participate in micro services and NGA code reviews.
• Empower SDEs and their teams by mentoring and coaching.
• Have a comprehensive understanding of the business domain, the systems, and the products in your space. Understand their accountabilities, boundaries, limitations, scale factors and the reasons behind architectural decisions.
• Provide a long-term perspective for business and technology choices; using technical judgment to vet architecture as required.
• Able to direct teams on how to develop and deliver systems that are efficient with resource usage such as hardware, runtime, performance, load, and memory requirements.
• Responsible for broader design decisions and development of long-term strategies that significantly influence the development process and standards.
• Accountable for Design Reviews of Agile and Plan of Record (POR) projects as well as accountable for Code Reviews of Next Gen Architecture (NGA) projects and are expected to elaborate, promote and communicate Design Patterns applicable to NGA architectures and solutions.
• Accountable for providing architectural guidance to the SDE's based on best practices and in alignment with CTO guidelines and platform.
• Drive clarity and work with complete independence as business and or technical strategy is not defined.
• Provide the corresponding architectural guidance, and conduct design reviews and code reviews based on the projects assigned to your LOB. The product definition and technical planning is out of scope.
• Accountable for the overall strategy and for driving the teams inside and outside of