Senior Java Developer, Assistance Vice President

Citi; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 94,000 - 142,000; Full time

Job summary

Citi is seeking a Senior Java Developer (Assistance Vice President) to join the Technology team. You will participate in feasibility studies, design, develop, and support Java-based applications, using Spring Boot, Kafka, and microservices.

The role emphasizes risk-aware decisions, agile methods, and collaboration with senior stakeholders. You will mentor junior analysts, operate with minimal supervision, and help drive secure, scalable software delivery across Citi’s global platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a related field.
• 4+ years of experience with Java 8+ and modern frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Conduct feasibility studies, IT planning, and development of new or revised applications to meet business needs.
• Monitor all phases of the development process and provide support to business users.
• Analyze complex problems and recommend programming solutions.
• Ensure security measures in post-implementation analyses and design.
• Mentor junior analysts and operate with limited supervision.

Skills

Java 17+

Lombok

Spring Boot

Kafka

GRPC

ECS

MongoDB

REST API

JUnit/Mockito

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Openshift

Gradle

Splunk

Prometheus

TeamCity

Jenkins

Udeploy

SQL

NoSQL Databases

Microservices

Autosys

Docker

KafKa

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

Autosys

Jenkins

Gradle

MongoDB

SQL

Job description

Senior Java Developer, Assistance Vice President

Location(s):

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Job Type:

Hybrid

Discover your future at Citi

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

This position gives an excellent opportunity for the selected candidate to play a significant role in an exciting and critical business within Citi. As a member of our highly acclaimed Technology team, this role provides the opportunity to participate in and shape the expansion and pre‑eminence of our Business working together with our team of highly skilled technologists. We believe it is even more special to do this as part of Citi, a premier financial institution that is one of the biggest and best in the market, and as a part of our team that has a high visibility for our work both inside our larger organization as well as in the global Capital Markets world. The position will enable you to leverage Citi’s incomparable geographical reach, product richness, and engineering expertise and to translate these into a successful and top‑of‑the‑class product offering for our customers.

Responsibilities

• Conduct tasks related to feasibility studies, time and cost estimates, IT planning, risk technology, applications development, model development, and establish and implement new or revised applications systems and programs to meet specific business needs or user areas

• Monitor and control all phases of development process and analysis, design, construction, testing, and implementation as well as provide user and operational support on applications to business users

• Utilize in-depth specialty knowledge of applications development to analyze complex problems/issues, provide evaluation of business process, system process, and industry standards, and make evaluative judgement

• Recommend and develop security measures in post implementation analysis of business usage to ensure successful system design and functionality

• Consult with users/clients and other technology groups on issues, recommend advanced programming solutions, and install and assist customer exposure systems

• Ensure essential procedures are followed and help define operating standards and processes

• Serve as advisor or coach to new or lower level analysts

• Has the ability to operate with a limited level of direct supervision.

• Can exercise independence of judgement and autonomy.

• Acts as SME to senior stakeholders and /or other team members.

• 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 judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

• Follow agile methodology and address new function/enhancement/fixes for existing batches and new batches

Qualifications

• 4+ years of relevant experience in Java (JDK 1.8 or more) , experience with Spring Boot, KAFKA, GRPC, ECS, Mongo, REST API, JUNIT and SQL Basics

• Java performance tuning

• Kubernetes, Openshift, Gradle, Splunk, Prometheus

• Knowledge of CI/CD Pipeline, Familiarity with TeamCity, Udeploy, Jenkins, SonarQube

• Experience with Design Patterns, Code Review, Coding standard, Unit testing with JNIT/Mockito

• Experience in systems analysis and programming of software applications

• Experience in managing and implementing successful projects

• Working knowledge of consulting/project management techniques/methods

• Ability to work under pressure and manage deadlines or unexpected changes in expectations or requirements

Education

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience

Required Skills

• Java 17 or more

• Lombok (for reducing boilerplate code)

• Spring boot, Spring JPA, Spring Cloud Config, Spring JDBC, Spring WebFlux

• Kafka, Apache Flink, Spring Kafka

• Docker (for containerizing applications)

• Kubernetes (for orchestrating containerized workloads)

• Helm (for managing Kubernetes applications)

• Autosys

• Relational Databases (e.g., SQL)

• NoSQL Databases (e.g., MongoDB, Couchbase, Redis)

• Microservices Architecture

• CI/CC

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

Job Family Group

Technology

Job Family

Applications Development

Time Type

Full time

Primary Location Full Time Salary Range

$94,300.00 - $141,500.00

Most Relevant Skills

Please see the requirements listed above.

Other Relevant Skills

For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

Automated Processing and AI

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