The Applications Development Group Manager is a senior management level position within Funds Administration and Accounting Technology, responsible for accomplishing results through the management of a team or department in an effort to establish and implement new or revised application systems and programs in coordination with the Technology Team. The overall objective of this role is to drive applications systems analysis and programming activities.
This is a Senior Functional and Engineering position responsible for establishing and implementing innovative technology solutions for operational capabilities, and programs within the Funds technology team. The overall objective of this role is to lead complex engineering initiatives across Funds Accounting domain. We are looking for a Senior Engineer with extensive experience building robust, high-performance, and large-scale applications.
Responsibilities:
- Manage multiple teams of professionals to accomplish established goals and conduct personnel duties for team (e.g. performance evaluations, hiring and disciplinary actions)
- Provide strategic influence and exercise control over resources, budget management and planning while monitoring end results
- Utilize in-depth knowledge of concepts and procedures within own area and basic knowledge of other areas to resolve issues
- Ensure essential procedures are followed and contribute to defining standards
- Integrate in-depth knowledge of applications development with overall technology function to achieve established goals
- 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, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.
Responsibilities:
- Lead integration of functions to meet goals, deploy new products, and enhance processes
- Analyze complex business processes, system processes, and industry standards to define and develop solutions to high level problems
- Provide expertise in area of advanced knowledge of applications programming and plan assignments involving large budgets, cross functional project, or multiple projects
- Develop application methodologies and standards for program analysis, design, coding, testing, debugging, and implementation
- Utilize advanced knowledge of supported main system flows and comprehensive knowledge of multiple areas to achieve technology goals
- Consult with end users to identify system function specifications and incorporate into overall system design
- Allocate work, and act as an advisor/coach developers, analysts, and new team members
- Influence and negotiate with senior leaders and communicate with external parties
- 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.
Role Qualifications:
- 12+ years of progressive experience in software development, Strong hands-on experience with enterprise-level Java development, including Spring Framework (Spring Boot, Spring Cloud) and related ecosystems; and Deep understanding and hands-on experience with data architecture principles, including relational databases (e.g., Oracle), NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, Hadoop), data warehousing, and big data technologies (e.g., Spark, Kafka).
- Provide technical leadership and development oversight to the wider team of Software Engineers/Analysts. Ensure application design adheres to the appropriate architectural and design patterns for scalable and intelligent systems.
- Develop key software components personally, and use your code as a teaching tool across the team for patterns and techniques, especially concerning Agentic AI design and implementation.
- Host sessions for design and code review at multiple levels of the organization. Improve our engineering standards and process to make the team more capable and efficient, embracing AI-assisted development practices, including the use of tools like Git Copilot and Devin AI.
- Collaborate effectively with a large global team of software engineers, business analysts, dev-ops and support staff to deliver software solutions for the business.
- Lead the adoption of new technologies where appropriate to solve business problems while adhering to Citi's architectural guidelines, with a strong focus on Agentic AI and Machine Learning frameworks.
- Serve as advisor or coach to mid-level/junior developers and analysts, helping build the overall engineering capabilities of the team, particularly in AI/ML and intelligent systems development.
- Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP), including understanding of cloud-native services and serverless architectures.
- Proficiency in designing and implementing microservices architectures, RESTful APIs, and event-driven systems.
- Experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes).
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and automated testing frameworks.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
- Experience with Agile software development processes with a strong emphasis on test driven development.
- Spring Framework including Core, Integration, Batch, JDBC, Hibernate.
- Distributed Caching frameworks such as Oracle Coherence, Redis or equivalent.
- Cloud computing technologies with practical experience working with containers, microservices and large datasets (Docker, Kubernetes).
- SDLC/Dev Ops - Git/BitBucket, CI/CD pipeline frameworks such as Jenkins, SonarQube, JIRA, any secure coding toolkits.
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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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