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In this senior individual contributor role, you will design and deliver complex, full-stack solutions using modern technologies - including Java, React, Kafka, and Oracle - while guiding mid-level engineers and collaborating across product, DevOps, and business teams. This is an opportunity to shape architecture decisions and drive meaningful technology outcomes at one of the world's leading financial services organizations.\nResponsibilities\nDesign, develop, and maintain large-scale enterprise applications across the full stack, applying hands-on expertise in Java, React, Kafka, PL/SQL, and RESTful API development.\n\nArchitect and implement robust data exchange and messaging solutions using Kafka, ensuring scalable and reliable integration across distributed systems.\n\nDefine and enforce engineering standards for coding, testing, debugging, and deployment to maintain high quality and consistency across the codebase.\n\nCollaborate with product owners, business stakeholders, DevOps teams, and program managers to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.\n\nPartner with architecture and infrastructure teams to ensure application designs align with the broader technology blueprint and long-term platform strategy.\n\nIdentify and lead the resolution of high-impact technical and business process challenges, applying deep analytical skills to develop effective and innovative solutions.\n\nCoach and mentor mid-level developers and analysts, providing technical guidance and allocating work to support team delivery and professional growth.\n\nAssess technical and business risk in engineering decisions, ensuring solutions meet compliance, security, and quality standards.\n\nTop 4 Core Skills\nTo successfully execute this role, the candidate must excel in the following four multi-disciplinary skill areas:\nSkill 1: Scalable Enterprise Architecture & Full-Stack Design (Java, UI, PL-SQL)\nDescription: The ability to design, build, and maintain highly scalable, resilient, and secure enterprise applications. This spans the entire stack: high-performance database design in PL-SQL, robust business logic in Java/J2EE (Spring Boot, Microservices), and modular, responsive frontends in Angular and React JS.\n\nKey Competencies:\nDesigning microservices architectures that handle high throughput and low latency.\n\nOptimizing complex PL-SQL queries, stored procedures, and database schemas for performance and data integrity.\n\nImplementing state management and reusable component libraries in both Angular and React.\n\nApplying design patterns (e.g., CQRS, Event Sourcing, Dependency Injection) to ensure system maintainability.\n\nSkill 2: AI Engineering & Agentic AI Orchestration\nDescription: Moving beyond simple API calls to LLMs, the candidate must understand how to design and implement autonomous, agentic AI workflows. This includes prompt engineering, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and multi-agent orchestration frameworks.\n\nKey Competencies:\nIntegrating GenAI models (via gateways like R2D2 or direct APIs) into enterprise application workflows.\n\nDesigning \"Agentic\" systems where AI agents can plan, use tools (APIs, databases), and collaborate to solve complex business problems.\n\nImplementing guardrails, semantic caching, and evaluation metrics to ensure AI safety, accuracy, and cost-efficiency.\n\nFamiliarity with AI orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, or internal equivalents like Agentflow).\n\nSkill 3: Enterprise Integration & API Ecosystem Design\nDescription: Enterprise applications do not exist in a vacuum. The candidate must be an expert in designing secure, reliable, and scalable integration patterns to interface with numerous internal and external applications.\n\nKey Competencies:\nDesigning and documenting RESTful APIs, gRPC services, and GraphQL endpoints.\n\nImplementing asynchronous, event-driven integration patterns using message brokers (e.g., Kafka, Solace, RabbitMQ).\n\nEnsuring robust security protocols (OAuth2, OIDC, mTLS, API Gateways) across all integration points.\n\nDesigning for fault tolerance, circuit breaking, rate limiting, and graceful degradation.\n\nSkill 4: Strategic Stakeholder Collaboration & Agile Leadership\nDescription: This is a bridge builder. The candidate must translate complex technical architectures into business value and coordinate delivery across a highly matrixed stakeholder landscape.\n\nKey Competencies:\nCollaborating with Business Partners and Product Owners to refine requirements and define technical roadmaps.\n\nCoordinating with horizontal technology teams (Infrastructure, Security, Cloud, DBA, DevOps) to ensure seamless deployment and compliance.\n\nPartnering with Project Managers (PMs) and Scrum Masters (SMs) to manage sprint planning, mitigate technical risks, and unblock development teams.\n\nMentoring junior engineers, conducting code reviews, and championing engineering excellence.\n\nRecommended Qualifications:\n6-10 years of relevant experience in Apps Development or systems analysis role\n\nExtensive experience system analysis and in programming of software applications\n\nExperience in managing and implementing successful projects\n\nSubject Matter Expert (SME) in at least one area of Applications Development\n\nAbility to adjust priorities quickly as circumstances dictate\n\nDemonstrated leadership and project management skills\n\nConsistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication\n\nEducation:\nBachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience\n\nMaster’s degree preferred\n\nWhat We Offer\nJoining Citi means working on technically complex, high-impact engineering challenges within a global technology organization. You will have the opportunity to work across a modern, diverse technology stack - including Java, React, Kafka, and Oracle - while collaborating with talented teams across product, DevOps, and infrastructure. We invest in your long-term growth and offer an environment where senior engineers have real ownership, strategic influence, and the space to do their best work.\nHybrid working model with 3 days in the office and 2 days working remotely, giving you flexibility and structure.\n\nHands-on engagement with enterprise-scale systems across Java, React, Kafka, CI/CD pipelines, and relational databases.\n\nCross-functional collaboration with product owners, DevOps teams, architects, and business stakeholders on high-visibility projects.\n\nA performance-driven culture that rewards technical excellence, delivery ownership, and leadership at the senior level.\n\nAccess to learning and development programmes to deepen technical expertise and advance your career within a global technology organization.\n\nCompetitive compensation and financial wellbeing benefit reflective of a senior engineering role at a leading global financial institution.\n\nWellbeing support and work-life balance initiatives designed to sustain long-term performance and personal effectiveness.\n\nBuild enterprise-scale technology that matters - apply today and bring your engineering leadership to Citi's global platform.\n------------------------------------------------------\nJob Family Group:\nTechnology------------------------------------------------------\nJob Family:\nApplications Development------------------------------------------------------\nTime Type:\nFull time------------------------------------------------------\nPrimary Location:\nTampa Florida United States------------------------------------------------------\nPrimary Location Full Time Salary Range:\n$113,840.00 - $170,760.00In addition to salary, Citi’s offerings may also include, for eligible employees, discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards. Citi offers competitive employee benefits, including: medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs. Citi also offers paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays. For additional information regarding Citi employee benefits, please visit citibenefits.com. Available offerings may vary by jurisdiction, job level, and date of hire.\n------------------------------------------------------\nMost Relevant Skills\nPlease see the requirements listed above.------------------------------------------------------\nOther Relevant Skills\nFor complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.------------------------------------------------------\nAnticipated Posting Close Date:\n------------------------------------------------------\nAutomated Processing and AI\nWe use automated processing, including artificial intelligence, for our legitimate business interests (or our reasonable and appropriate business purposes) to identify and align the candidate's skills and abilities with a specific job opening. Additionally, if you so choose, or consent, we can match your skills and abilities to other suitable roles at Citi.\nImportantly, all our hiring processes and decisions, including determining your suitability for a role, are conducted, checked, and decided by individuals. Our automated processing and AI do not involve relying on automatic or autonomous decision-making. Please refer to any Jurisdictional Considerations, with specific provisions for your country (where relevant) for further details.\nIllinois residents - AI Notice and Right\n------------------------------------------------------\nCiti is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law.\nIf you are a person with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to use our search tools and/or apply for a career opportunity review Accessibility at Citi.\nView Citi’s EEO Policy Statement and the Know Your Rights poster.","description_format":"text","description_chars":10101,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":6,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"master","optional":true},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Hybrid work","Wellness"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Commercial & Retail Banks","Wealth Management & Financial Advisors","Payment Processing & Gateways","Investment Banking & M&A Advisory"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-08-27T00:00:00Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"Filed H-1B visas in the last two years","filings_12m":0,"filings_prev_12m":1,"green_card_filings_12m":0,"median_offered_wage_usd":null,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-15T11:24:14+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)"],"filings_for_role_12m":0}],"liveness":{"score":10,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.36,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":51,"expected_fill_days":10,"reasons":["conf:36","velocity","win:tail","crowd:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-17T05:46:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":170760,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/citi-applications-development-tech-lead","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/citi-applications-development-tech-lead.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-17T18:31:48Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1313,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-18T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":7841},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=7841"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fciti-applications-development-tech-lead"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fciti-applications-development-tech-lead"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fciti-applications-development-tech-lead"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/citi-applications-development-tech-lead\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fciti-applications-development-tech-lead"}]}