Applications Development Manager - Assistant Vice President

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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 organisation 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:

• Develop common, reusable components and services utilizing Citi’s best practices
• Create high performance, low latency applications leveraging existing Citi framework
• Ensure strong reliability, scalability and performance of our components
• Liaise with technical and business teams to collaborate on identifying opportunities and solutions
• Drive architecture and execute on our technical strategy
• Partner with business to continue to evolve our architecture roadmap beyond near term objectives
• Coordinate development with both internal technology teams and business
• Adhere to engineering standards and strive for best in class
• Assist in third line support during core trading hours
• Motivate, mentor and lead technical teams, evaluate their delivery, guide the members to deliver quality output with responsible delegation and  build a high performance team
• Together with the partner teams, user community, business analysts and Tech management contribute to innovative & best-in-class solutions for our business

Knowledge/Experience:

• 8+ years hands on experience
• Strong Knowledge in one of the project management methodologies
• Experience in designing and implementing Multi-tier applications
• Excellent analytic & problem solving skills
• Excellent knowledge in troubleshooting, performance tuning and best practices
• Experience in Messaging, failover designing and recovery planning
• Experience in delivering high quality applications
• Experience in project risk identification techniques, mitigation and escalation
• Familiar with all phases of the systems lifecycle, from analysis, design and development through to support
• Experience in developing performance sensitive applications
• Knowledge of the FI market and products is very desirable.

Skills:

• Self Motivated, Strong interpersonal and articulation skills (spoken and written)
• Excellent persuasive, influencing and negotiation skills
• Outstanding analytic and problem solving skills; innovative and solutions oriented

Technical:

• Excellent knowledge in Sybase/Oracle/PLSQL
• Excellent Knowledge on the heterogenies replication
• Performance tuning and Debugging
• 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

Qualifications:

• Graduation/Post Graduation qualifications in Computer Engineering (preferable) or any Engineering stream with a very good academic record throughout.  
• A high degree of Analytical ability and Quantitative skills is desirable

Competencies:

• Innovative and Positive ‘Can Do’ attitude
• Ability to make effective judgements on available data / knowledge
• Planning and Organising – Ability to identify the steps to be taken to achieve objectives
• Resilience – Used to working towards tight deadlines, under pressure and using appropriate coping methods to stay focused
• Accountability –self start on goals and achieve targets

Strong team orientation and commitment to overall team success; willing to go above and beyond to ensure team success; intense customer focus and commitment to driving quality

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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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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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