VP, Big Data & Analytics Platform Lead

Citi; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 37,000 - 74,000; Full time

Job summary

Citi is seeking an Application Development Lead (Bigdata & Analytics) to drive the technology roadmap for Client Financials, lead cloud-native data services on AWS, and oversee the migration to Databricks with Spark and PySpark. The role combines engineering leadership with strategic stakeholder alignment.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years in software engineering, extensive cloud and big data experience, and excels at communicating with senior executives about complex financial tech dimensions.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in software engineering and applications development.
• Experience building and scaling enterprise data services.
• Strong ability to influence technology strategy with senior partners.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the strategic technology architecture roadmap for the Client Financials portfolio.
• Lead cloud-native data services design, development, and scaling on AWS.
• Guide migration of legacy platforms to Databricks with Spark/PySpark.
• Lead agile delivery and manage a high-performing data/engineer team.

Skills

Big Data

AWS

Databricks

Spark

PySpark

SQL Server

Oracle

Git

Jira

Confluence

Tableau

AI/ML

Cloud-native

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

Git

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Citi is seeking an Application Development Lead (Bigdata & Analytics) to drive the technology roadmap for Client Financials, lead cloud-native data services on AWS, and oversee the migration to Databricks with Spark and PySpark. The role combines engineering leadership with strategic stakeholder alignment.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years in software engineering, extensive cloud and big data experience, and excels at communicating with senior executives about complex financial tech dimensions.