SVP Prime Brokerage Tech Lead - Platform Architect

Citi; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 250,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days annual leave

Discretional annual performance bonus

Private Medical Care & Life Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Citi’s Prime Brokerage Tech Development Lead (SVP) role blends hands-on coding with strategic technical direction to design and deliver core Prime Brokerage components using Java and Kotlin.

Based in New York with a hybrid work option, you will mentor engineers, raise engineering standards, and partner with product and business teams to enable scalable, secure, and observable systems across the Citi technology platform.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field.
• Proven experience in software engineering.
• Deep expertise in systems analysis and programming.
• Delivery of complex technical initiatives with measurable impact.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Own, design, and build core components of the Prime Brokerage platform in Kotlin/Java.
• Lead planning and estimation with technical teams and business stakeholders.
• Provide technical leadership to agile teams and mentor developers.
• Drive engineering quality via SDLC and DevOps practices including DORA metrics.
• Ensure production stability end to end and manage incidents to resolution.
• Collaborate with product partners and drive AI tooling adoption where value is delivered.

Skills

Java

Test-Driven Development

Software engineering

Systems analysis

Communication skills

Event-driven architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Kotlin

Kafka

Solace

TIBCO

SQL Server

MongoDB

S3

Kubernetes

OpenShift

OpenTelemetry

ELK

Grafana

HashiCorp Vault

CyberArk

GitHub Copilot

Devin

Job description

Citi’s Prime Brokerage Tech Development Lead (SVP) role blends hands-on coding with strategic technical direction to design and deliver core Prime Brokerage components using Java and Kotlin.

Based in New York with a hybrid work option, you will mentor engineers, raise engineering standards, and partner with product and business teams to enable scalable, secure, and observable systems across the Citi technology platform.