Senior Technical Lead, Full-Stack Engineering – Vice President

About the role

Citi is seeking a Senior Technical Lead, Full-Stack Engineering to lead the design and delivery of enterprise-grade applications that integrate modern cloud architecture with AI-assisted development.

Responsibilities

• Apply depth of knowledge and expertise to all aspects of the software development lifecycle, and partner continuously with stakeholders.
• Develop and engineer solutions within an Agile software delivery team, working to collaboratively deliver sprint goals, write code, and participate in the broader Citi technical community and team-level Agile and Scrum processes.
• Contribute to the design, documentation, and development of world-class enterprise applications leveraging the latest technologies and software design patterns.
• Leverage technical knowledge of concepts and procedures within own area and basic knowledge of other areas to resolve issues, as necessary.
• Follow and contribute to defining technical and team standards.
• Collaborate technical leadership to achieve established goals, in line with our broader technical strategy.
• AI-Driven Development: Leverage AI tools, such as GitHub Copilot, to enhance development efficiency, accelerate delivery timelines, and optimize software solutions.
• AI Landscape Awareness: Maintain awareness of the rapidly evolving AI landscape and proactively propose innovative approaches to implement product features.
• Problem Solving and Troubleshooting: Possess the expertise to analyze and effectively troubleshoot complex coding, application performance, and design challenges.
• Root Cause Analysis: Capable of conducting thorough research to identify the root causes of development and performance issues, as well as devising and implementing effective defect resolutions.
• Technical Acumen: Demonstrate a profound understanding of the technical requirements pertinent to the solutions under development.
• Containerization and Orchestration: Utilize Docker for application containerization and Kubernetes for efficient service orchestration.
• Communication and Risk Management: Effectively communicate progress, proactively anticipate bottlenecks, provide skilled escalation management, and adeptly identify, assess, track, and mitigate issues and risks across various levels.
• Process Optimization: Streamline, automate, or eliminate redundant processes within architecture, build, delivery, production operations, or business areas where similar efforts or issues recur annually.

Requirements

• Extensive Experience: Minimum of 10 years of proven software development experience, specializing in Java, Javascript framework like React, Spring Boot, and Oracle.
• In-depth knowledge of modern application architecture principles.
• Clear understanding of Data Structures and Object Oriented Principles using Java.
• Practical experience with Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools for enhancing development workflows.
• Proficiency in Microservices frameworks (e.g., Spring Boot), Event-Driven Services, and Cloud-Native Application Development.
• Multiple years of experience on Service Oriented and Microservices architectures, including REST and GraphQL implementations.
• Full Stack Proficiency: Demonstrated ability to design, develop, and maintain both front-end and back-end components of robust web applications.
• Strong expertise in developing intuitive user interfaces using contemporary JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React), HTML5, and CSS.
• Solid experience in developing server-side logic and APIs using languages such as Java, Python, or similar.
• Comprehensive knowledge of SQL and PL/SQL, with a deep understanding of Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS), particularly Oracle.
• Proven capability in designing, developing, and implementing high-performance RESTful APIs leveraging appropriate frameworks and technologies.
• Proficiency with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines and tools for building (e.g., Maven, Gradle) and deploying code (e.g., Docker, Jenkins, OpenShift).
• Experience with AWS is considered a significant advantage.
• Practical experience working within Agile development methodologies and utilizing project management tools such as JIRA.
• Ability to develop and automate comprehensive unit, integration, and end-to-end tests to ensure code quality.
• Solid understanding and practical experience with code versioning tools, including GitHub Enterprise.

What We Offer

• Hybrid working model with 3 days in the office and 2 days working remotely.
• Ownership of high-impact engineering decisions that influence Citi's global technology platforms and enterprise infrastructure.
• Access to continuous learning and professional development resources, including exposure to emerging technologies and AI-driven tooling.
• Competitive compensation and financial wellbeing benefits befitting a senior leadership role.
• Wellbeing and work-life balance support through a range of employee programmes and resources.
• Opportunity to collaborate with and contribute to a broad global engineering community, working across cross-functional teams and geographies.

Automated Processing and AI

We 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. Importantly, 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.