Java Technical Lead - Vice President

The work will be developing strategic state-of-the-art solutions using agile methodologies, micro services, and integration with many application/services.

The Applications Development Technology Lead Analyst is a senior level position responsible for establishing and implementing new or revised application systems and programs in coordination with the Technology team. The overall objective of this role is to lead applications systems analysis and programming activities.

Introduction

Citi's Institutional Clients Group (ICG, visit us at icg.citi.com) comprised of diverse, talented professionals located in more than 100 countries, jurisdictions and territories globally. ICG Operations and Technology develops innovative solutions and provide exceptional service to our clients in full partnership with our product teams. ICG O&T features a diverse, inclusive team of professionals in approximately 90 countries around the globe. Institutional operations group is responsible for the management and execution of transactions for Markets, Credit Risk, Security Services, Information Services, Private Bank, Treasury and Trade Solutions and Operation Controls and reporting. The technology arm of ICG engaged in the application development and support for various lines of businesses. We are focused on building a cross-functional team of talented individuals, creating a unique platform to deliver products that will pioneer the industry through technical innovation and creativity. Our mission as a business focused technology organization is to provide best-in-class products and services to our global clients.

Why Citi?

Over 200 years in business with a great team of creative, visionary and entrepreneurial thinkers.

Tremendous opportunities to advance; open to everyone across all levels. Learn and grow simultaneously.

We offer a unique journey of personal and professional development, accomplishment and satisfaction.

We value intelligence and a global mindset. There is a strong culture of empowerment here - we embrace diversity.

We do our best to be flexible and may differ depending on the business or area.

Citi India supports would be and returning mothers with various childcare benefits.

Citi offers a robust training program. We continually reevaluate our training model to ensure that we are always offering the most relevant and best in class training.

At Citi, we value internal mobility. We want you to build a long-term career with us, so you can expect opportunities to move around the organization.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with multiple management teams to ensure appropriate integration of functions to meet goals as well as identify and define necessary system enhancements to deploy new products and process improvements

• Resolve variety of high impact problems/projects through in-depth evaluation of complex business processes, system processes, and industry standards

• Provide expertise in area and advanced knowledge of applications programming and ensure application design adheres to the overall architecture blueprint

• Utilize advanced knowledge of system flow and develop standards for coding, testing, debugging, and implementation

• Develop comprehensive knowledge of how areas of business, such as architecture and infrastructure, integrate to accomplish business goals

• Provide in-depth analysis with interpretive thinking to define issues and develop innovative solutions

• Evaluate and build POCs for new strategic initiatives and work to convert to enterprise solutions.

• Ability to take initiative to research, learn and recommend emerging technologies.

• Provide post release assistance to business, development, and support groups.

• Serve as advisor or coach to mid-level DevOps and analysts, allocating work as necessary

• 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.

Technical skill:

• At least 8 years of experience working around the areas of Agile and DevOps - Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Software Configuration Management (SCM) and Test Environment Management (TEM); DevOps tool - GitHub/Bitbucket, TeamCity, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Tekton, uDeploy, Harness, App Insight et al in-enterprise environments

• Good Experience in Observability frameworks and tools such as ELK, AppD, Splunk & Prometheus, Jaeger, and Grafana

• Strong knowledge of Micro-Services, container-based architecture, and the corresponding deployment tools and techniques, including OOPs concepts and programming experience such as Java, Python, shell scripting etc.

• Experience with CI/CD setup for Cloud (ECS) and On-premises environments, as well as with Orchestration tools: Dockers, Kubernetes is beneficial

• Good experience on Build & Security scan tool like - Maven, Ant, SonarQube, BlackDuck, CyberArk

• Good experience on Artifact Repository, collaboration wiki tool like CodeStation, Confluence, Artifactory, Nexus

• 5+ years of DevOps experience in Linux/Unix and Windows environment. Command, bash scripting, Configuration, and administration of common services in Linux/Unix

• Knowledge of DevSecOps concepts and infrastructure-as-a-code, as well as hands-on experience in security related to cloud-based infrastructure

• Excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills

• Demonstrated experience as a Site Reliability/ observability Engineer, DevDataOps Engineer

• Provide guidance on operational concerns to development and business teams

• Experience managing and maintaining load balancers, proxies, webservers, Queues, Caches etc.

Business facing and interpersonal skills:

• Strong communication skills, oral and written.

• Ability to apply sound technical skills and knowledge of the Rates business to develop creative solutions to meet client and business needs.

• Responsible, agile and collaborative team worker.

• Ability to develop strong relationships with others, effectively influencing peers and business partners.

• Self-motivated and organized, with determination to achieve goals; ability to work autonomously when required.

• Ability to face off to all business users (traders, financial controllers, risk managers, etc.)

• Flexible and able to deliver quality results in the required timeframe

• Flexibility to work with a global team, across geographies and time zones

Qualifications / Education:

• Strong academic record, ideally with a Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, or related technical/quantitative discipline. Demonstrable success in designing and delivering multi-tiered applications

• Ideally, an understanding of financial derivatives (rates or other) or willing to learn about this area.

Citi Canada is an equal opportunity employer. Accordingly, we will make accommodations to respond to the needs of people with disabilities (including, without limitation, physical and mental health disabilities) during the recruitment process and otherwise in accordance with law. Individuals who view themselves as Aboriginals, members of visible minority or racialized communities, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

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