Application Development Manager, Citi

Citi

Location:
India, Chennai

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Employment contract

Salary:

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Job Description:

The Applications Development Senior Manager is a senior management level position responsible for managing one or multiple development teams, driving application systems analysis, development, and programming activities, and ensuring compliance with standards and policies within the Technology team. Focuses on delivering high-quality system design, payment modernization, production support, and team leadership.

Job Responsibility:

Manage one or more Applications Development teams in an effort to accomplish established goals as well as conduct personnel duties for team (e.g. performance evaluations, hiring and disciplinary actions)
Utilize in-depth knowledge and skills across multiple Applications Development areas to provide technical oversight across systems and applications
Review and analyze proposed technical solutions for projects
Contribute to formulation of strategies for applications development and other functional areas
Develop comprehensive knowledge of how areas of business integrate to accomplish business goals
Provide evaluative judgment based on analysis of factual data in complicated and unique situations
Impact the Applications Development area through monitoring delivery of end results, participate in budget management, and handling day-to-day staff management issues, including resource management and allocation of work within the team/project
Ensure essential procedures are followed and contribute to defining standards negotiating with external parties when necessary
Lead Payment modernization for the bank to develop and migrate payment applications on the modernized enterprise application platform
Effectively coach, help and give feedback to junior team members
Able to work independently and with team(s) to deliver software product successfully
Lead deliveries that are consistently of high quality (secure, testable, maintainable, low-defects, efficient, etc.) and incorporate best practices
Review design and code
Focus on operational excellence, constructively identifying problems, identifying and building solutions, taking on projects that improve software, making it better and easier to maintain
Make improvements to development and testing processes

Requirements:

14+ years of relevant experience in Java & Microservices with commensurate people management experience
Hands-on working experience in Java / Spring / Spring Cloud / Spring Data JPA / Spring Boot Microservices
Strong experience of Microservices, API Development and its Eco-systems
Strong experience on Observability and Monitoring tech stack as well
Messaging like Kafka and MQ components
Hands-on working experience with Junit, Git, Jenkins, Maven
Should have troubleshooting skills using debuggers, logs, etc.
Experience with Openshift, AWS will be added advantage
Implement Unit Testing and TDD to ensure software quality and maintainability
Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
Work proactively & independently to address project requirements, and articulate issues/challenges with enough lead time to address project delivery risks
Code reviews, test case reviews, and ensure code developed meets the requirements
Proficiency in SQL Databases, MongoDB, Oracle, Data Analysis
Experience as Applications Development Manager
Experience as senior level in an Applications Development role
Stakeholder and people management experience
Demonstrated leadership skills
Proven project management skills
Basic knowledge of industry practices and standards
Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication

Nice to have:

Experience with Python skills and GEN AI tools
Experience and/or exposure to Digital Asset / Blockchain domain

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
August 22, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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