Application and Integration Development Lead

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About Citi Citi, the leading global financial services company, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management. Our core activities are safeguarding assets, lending money, making payments and accessing the capital markets on behalf of our clients. Citi’s Mission and Value Proposition explains what we do and Citi Leadership Standards explain how we do it. Our mission is to serve as a trusted partner to our clients by responsibly providing financial services that enable growth and economic progress. We strive to earn and maintain our clients’ and the public’s trust by constantly adhering to the highest ethical standards and making a positive impact on the communities we serve. Our Leadership Standards is a common set of skills and expected behaviours that illustrate how our employees should work every day to be successful and strengthens our ability to execute against our strategic priorities. Diversity is a key business imperative and a source of strength at Citi. We serve clients from every walk of life, every background and every origin. Our goal is to have our workforce reflect this same diversity at all levels. Citi has made it a priority to foster a culture where the best people want to work, where individuals are promoted based on merit, where we value and demand respect for others and where opportunities to develop are widely available to all. About Team and Platform Citi Futures and Derivatives Clearing Technology supports a rapidly growing business that uses technological innovation to maintain competitive advantage in a constantly evolving market. Working closely with the business, external vendors and internal technology teams, you would build-out and maintain our next generation clearing platforms. You would manage complex projects that will involve everything from incorporating a new functionality within the existing ecosystem, to analyzing new requirements, documenting solutions, managing implementation and testing systems, ensuring that they are fit for purpose. You would regularly work with a range of Business Analysts and high-profile stakeholders. The Data and Reporting team develops and supports a platform that provides client reporting and feeds other downstream applications within Citi. It provides reporting such as real-time trades, positions, initial and variation margin, positions and balances for external clients and internal users such as traders, operations and sales. A major ongoing initiative is to modernize the existing platform in order to provide scale and to enhance product offerings and new business requirements. As the development lead for the data and reporting, you will lead the team to deliver best in class technical solutions to meet the needs of our Futures and Clearing business. This includes researching best practices, designing the application and data and integration architecture, designing the solutions, and delivering our application to the business. The team works closely with cross-functional business users, QA engineers and BAs collaborating to deliver best in class solutions. This role suits experienced architects/developers who have excellent communication and are passionate about driving technical solutions through leadership, excellence, collaboration. Responsibilities: Lead design and development of technical solutions for the data and reporting application and data integration utilizing best engineering practices Contribute to technical direction and enhancement as a technical expert in development and implementation phases, providing in-depth and sophisticated analyses to define problems and develop innovative solutions Work closely with business users, stakeholders, BAs, product managers and other development teams to understand problem space, brainstorm ideas, approaches, and solutions. Design and develop software applications using microservices cloud-native architecture to be resilient, stateless, scalable, and testable with automation and reusability as key objectives. Contribute to CI/CD implementation using DevOps best practices based on industry and Citi standards and work to implement them. Work with key business SMEs to develop an in-depth understanding of their critical data and reporting needs and business impact of existing data quality and data integrity issues on a detailed level Contribute to technical direction and strategic decisions as a technical expert in all development and implementation phases, providing in-depth and sophisticated analyses to define problems and develop innovative solutions Demonstrate a data-driven approach to problem-solving and decision-making, utilising metrics, and performance indicators to assess team efficiency and identify improvement opportunities. Partner with QA team to ensure robust testing framework is utilized for functional and nonfunctional testing for the release cycles. Partner with Support team to ensure stability of production environment with proactive monitoring and health checks. Partner with other Citi development teams to build APIs, integrations and share components that are critical to our platform’s success. Exhibit strong leadership qualities, fostering a positive and collaborative work environment, providing guidance and mentorship to team members, and promoting a culture of continuous learning. Work closely with business users, stakeholders, BAs, product managers and other development teams to understand problem space, brainstorm ideas, approaches, and solutions. Qualifications: Strong experience in designing and building best in class enterprise application and data architecture with site engineering excellence Strong hands-on experience in leading solution architecture and development including front-end web development and back-end application development with scalable data architecture Hands-on experience in data integration using Kafka, API and data pipelines using Flink/Spark is a plus Hands-on development experience with traditional and modern data systems (relational/non-relational databases, cloud/big data platform, data quality and lineage tools) Hands-on development experience in database, data models and a large data warehouse. Oracle preferred Experience as a dev lead for software development and implementation Strong communication and problem-solving skills Strong hands-on experience with front-end, back-end and infrastructure technologies including Angular/React, Spring Boot/Cloud, API Strong hands-on experience with modern software paradigms including cloud-native (AWS, Docker) and microservices Experience with application security best practises (secret management, Oauth/PKI) Experience in implementation of DevOps such as CI/CD and modern best practises such as testing frameworks and the SOLID principles; CI/CD tooling, automation of testing tools Passion and commitment for adopting new technologies with exploratory mind-set Experience working in an Agile/Scrum work environment Experience in building observability and monitoring Innovative ideas and can-do attitude to work under pressure Experience working in the financial services is a plus but not required Experience in GenAI/Agentic AI and AI agent integration automation development is a plus Excellent verbal and written communication skills, enabling effective collaboration with cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and management. Education: Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience in computer sciences, engineering, math/statistics ------------------------------------------------------ Job Family Group: Technology ------------------------------------------------------ Job Family: Applications Development ------------------------------------------------------ Time Type: Full time ------------------------------------------------------ Most Relevant Skills Please see the requirements listed above. ------------------------------------------------------ Other Relevant Skills For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter. ------------------------------------------------------ Citi 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. 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