Senior Lead Software Engineer Digital Solutions Vice President

About the Role

A strategic professional who stays abreast of developments within the field and contributes to directional strategy. Recognized as a technical authority for an area within the business, requiring basic commercial awareness. Developed communication and diplomacy skills are essential to guide, influence, and convince others, including colleagues and occasional external customers. The role has a significant impact on the area through complex deliverables and provides advice related to the technology or operations of the business.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for executing and driving results on large-scale efforts or multiple smaller projects, serving as a development lead for medium and large projects, including expertise in application development methodologies and standards.
• Support end-user consultations to identify system function specifications and incorporate them into overall system design and delivery.
• Utilize comprehensive knowledge of multiple technology areas to achieve technological objectives.
• Work independently with decisions making a significant, measurable impact on business goals.
• Play a significant role in team discussions with TPMs and engineering managers to identify risks to schedules.
• Plan and manage application development assignments involving large budgets, cross-functional, or multiple projects, including analyzing technical and business risks.
• Communicate risks effectively to business owners for informed decision-making.
• Provide guidance on architecturally significant efforts during preplanning, ensuring adherence to principles and best practices.
• Monitor Digital roadmaps and their impacts on upcoming journeys.
• Publish design review extensions and provide documented guidance aligned with sprint plans and timelines.
• Participate in the design review board to focus on design processes, identify generic patterns, and share best practices across the organization.
• Publish design patterns across lines of business and domain commonalities.
• Drive design reviews for Next Gen Architecture (NGA) and Plan of Record (POR) projects, supporting design principles and best practices.
• Participate in microservices and NGA code reviews.
• Mentor and coach SDEs and their teams.
• Understand the business domain, systems, products, accountabilities, boundaries, limitations, scale factors, and architectural decisions.
• Provide a long-term perspective for business and technology choices, using technical judgment to vet architecture.
• Direct teams on developing and delivering systems efficient in resource usage (e.g., hardware, runtime, performance, load, memory).
• Responsible for broader design decisions and long-term strategies influencing the development process and standards.
• Accountable for Design Reviews of Agile and POR projects and Code Reviews of NGA projects.
• Elaborate, promote, and communicate Design Patterns applicable to NGA architectures and solutions.
• Provide architectural guidance to SDEs based on best practices and CTO guidelines.
• Drive clarity and work independently where business or technical strategy is undefined.
• Conduct design and code reviews for projects within your line of business.
• Drive discussions with business and technical stakeholders to make timely decisions on trade-offs balancing efforts, timelines, features, and constraints.
• Identify and remove blockers, finding paths forward in challenging situations.
• Create delivery plans with clear paths, solving dependencies between Agile and waterfall efforts.
• Help teams organize for delivery while maximizing resources for the Digital organization.
• Apply engineering best practices to the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Elaborate and communicate clear metrics on Design Reviews, Code Reviews, CI/CD, and Design Patterns adoption.
• Communicate progress, anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, and mitigate issues/risks at multiple levels.
• Resolve discordant views through constructive dialogue.
• Implement continuous improvement and introduce new technology.
• Demonstrate influence in scrum teams beyond your area of focus.
• Assess risk in business decisions, considering the firm’s reputation and compliance with laws, rules, and regulations.

Requirements

• 6-10 years of relevant experience in an Apps Development role or senior-level experience in an Enterprise Architecture role with subject matter expertise in one or more areas.
• Expertise in technology aspects, including broader patterns and techniques applicable to Citi’s internal and external cloud platforms (AWS, PCF, Akamai).
• Lead resources and serve as a functional SME across the company through advanced knowledge of algorithms, data structures, distributed systems, and networking.
• Acquire relevant technology and financial industry skills (e.g., AWS PWS) and understand all aspects of NGA technology, including innovative approaches.
• Demonstrate knowledge of automating code quality, code performance, unit testing, and build processing in CI/CD.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree preferred.

Pay

$125,600.00 - $188,400.00. In addition to salary, eligible employees may receive discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401(k) plan.
• Life, accident, and disability insurance.
• Wellness programs.
• Paid time off, including vacation, sick leave, and holidays.

Schedule

Full time.

Location

Jacksonville, Florida, United States.