Job Description

Discover your future at Citi

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Working at Citi is far more than just a job. A career with us means joining a team of more than 230,000 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

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In Markets Engineering and Architecture, we are committed to provide the best experience for our engineers. We are looking for highly motivated individuals who can help us to shape the foundational engineering services for our Developer Community. The

Senior Java Engineering Lead

is a senior level position responsible for establishing and implementing and driving the adoption of new solutions to accelerate the experience of our engineers towards the Technology Strategy being actively engaged on trending initiatives such as API, Public Cloud, DevOps, Codified Blueprints, AI, others.

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The individual applying for this position must be able to translate problems to codified solutions. It will be required to code most part of the time.

Responsibilities:

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Champion a team of engineers to meet the engineering goals, deploy new products, enhance processes, and drive the organization towards engineering platforms.

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Drive the design and implementation of robust, scalable, and secure APIs.

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Coordinate the migration of critical applications to Public Cloud (AWS, GCP, etc). This will involve cloud-native architecture, ensuring cost-effectiveness, security, and optimized performance and scalability.

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Identify opportunities for improvements on our CICD Pipelines and Observability.

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Develop and Promote codified blueprints and reusable patterns for application development, infrastructure, and security.

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Mentor and Coach engineers on best practices in software development, clean code, testing, and operational excellence, as well as ensuring the definition of automated metrics and goals.

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Provide expertise in area of advanced knowledge of engineering and plan assignments involving cross functional project, or multiple projects.

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Implement AI Engineering Solutions to support the productivity of our engineers.

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Develop engineering methodologies and standards for program analysis, design, coding, testing, debugging, and implementation.

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Utilize advanced knowledge of supported main system flows and comprehensive knowledge of multiple areas to achieve technology goals.

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Develop PoV/PoC to quickly pivot the problem analysis into scale engineering solutions across the organization.

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Guide sessions with end users to identify system function specifications and incorporate into overall system design.

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Allocate work, and act as an advisor/coach developers, analysts, and new team members.

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Influence and negotiate with senior leaders and communicate with external parties.

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Manage a small group of Senior Engineers and DevOps Solutions.

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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.

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Qualifications:

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10+ years of relevant experience coding in Java, Java Frameworks, Concurrency, Python, Kotlin, TypeScript, others.

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Experience in AWS or GCP, Microservices, Event-Driven, DDD, API (RestFul, GraphQL, Messaging, etc), Secure Design and Coding, Blueprints, Patterns, and Code Standards.

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Experience in CICD Pipelines and tools such as Harness, Ansible, Tekton, Jenkins, SonarQube, Junit/Cucumber, Observability (e.g: Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk), etc.

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Experience in database (e.g: Oracle, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra, or similar).

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Experience in AI Engineering Solutions (e.g: Copilot, Agentic AI, Devin.ai or similar, LLMs, etc).

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Demonstrated Subject Matter Expert (SME) in area(s) of Applications Development and/or proven results of managing large adoption for engineering practices.

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Experience in Financial Industry - Markets will be considered a plus.

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Demonstrated leadership, agile project management, risk management, and development skills.

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Proven record of delivering trainings.

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Education:

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Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience

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Master's degree preferred

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Certification in AWS, GCP, others will be considered a plus.

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Job Family Group:

Technology
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Job Family:

Applications Development
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Time Type:

Full time
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Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:

$145,100.00 - $217,700.00
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Most Relevant Skills

Please see the requirements listed above.
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Other Relevant Skills

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