Apps Development Sr Manager Java VP

• Design & Develop scalable enterprise applications using Angular for UI and Java based microservices ensuring clear architecture, performance and maintainability
• Lead integration of backend services with enterprise platform components such as API gateways, API security frameworks, authentication, authorization etc
• Champion the use of AI assisted development tools and authentication frameworks to improve developer productivity, code quality, testing & documentation across engineering team
• Drive modernization of legacy applications including refactoring monolithic services into microservices and adopting modern development practices
• Provide technical leadership and delivery ownership, guiding the team on architecture decisions, best practices and ensuring high quality delivery of features and platform enhancements
• Owning overall data integration strategy, design & delivery across Wealth lending platforms
• Providing technical leadership to integration developers, guiding design, development, and implementation of integration pipelines
• Design & Govern integration patterns, including batch, real-time and event-based integrations with robust error handling, monitoring & replay mechanisms
• Design & Manage data access integration layer, ensuring consistent data extracts & schema management
• Conduct & oversee source system data profiling, data discovery and data quality assessments, identifying gaps and driving remediation strategies
• Defining complex transformation, standardization, and mapping rules for data integration
• Write good quality code in Java, Sprint Boot (related stack)
• Well versed with JUnit, Mockito, Integration Tests and Performance Tests
• Well versed with UI/UX Designs, Unit test
• Ability to design, develop components with minimal assistance
• Ability to effectively interact, collaborate with development team
• Work with developers onshore, offshore and matrix teams to implement a business solution
• Write user/supported documentation
• Evaluate and adopt new dev tools, libraries, and approaches to improve delivery quality
• Perform peer code review of project codebase changes
• Acts as SME to senior stakeholders and /or other team members
• Utilize knowledge of applications development procedures and concepts, and basic knowledge of other technical areas to identify and define necessary system enhancements, including using script tools and analyzing/interpreting code
• Consult with users, clients, and other technology groups on issues, and recommend programming solutions, install, and support customer exposure systems
• Apply fundamental knowledge of programming languages for design specifications
• Analyze applications to identify vulnerabilities and security issues, as well as conduct testing and debugging
• Serve as advisor or coach to new or lower level analysts
• Identify problems, analyze information, and make evaluative judgements to recommend and implement solutions
• Resolve issues by identifying and selecting solutions through the applications of acquired technical experience and guided by precedents
• Has the ability to operate with a limited level of direct supervision
• Can exercise independence of judgement and autonomy
• 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

• 13 Plus years of relevant experience in Enterprise Apps Development
• Extensive experience system analysis and in programming of software applications
• Experience in managing and implementing successful projects
• Strong hands‑on experience with Java, Spring, Spring Boot, JPA/Hibernate
• Expertise in building microservices, REST APIs, Swagger/OpenAPI, and SOAP integrations
• Experience designing & implementing event‑driven systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
• Solid understanding of RDBMS (SQL, PL/SQL) + familiarity with NoSQL databases
• Experience with caching (Redis)
• Strong knowledge of OAuth2, token‑based security, and API security best practices
• Prior experience with WebSphere, JSP/Servlets, EJB, and application modernization (migration to modern Java/Spring microservices)
• Hands-on work experience with advanced AI software engineering tools like Devin.AI, Copilot or similar autonomous AI software agents
• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
• Master’s degree preferred
• Excellent Knowledge of Spring including Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Web, Spring Data
• Good Knowledge of: Threading, Collections, Exception Handling, JDBC, Java OOD/OOP Concepts, GoF Design Patterns, MoM and SOA Design Patterns, File I/O, and parsing XML and JSON, delimited files and fixed length files, String matching, parsing, building, working with binary data / byte arrays
• Good knowledge of SQL
• Experience working with SOA & Micro-services utilizing REST
• Experience working in a Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery environment and familiar with Tekton, Harness, Jenkins, Code Quality, etc.
• Knowledge in industry standard best practices such as Design Patterns, Coding Standards, Coding modularity, Prototypes etc.
• Experience in debugging, tuning and optimizing components
• Understanding of the SDLC lifecycle for Agile methodologies
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Experience developing application in Financial Services industry is preferred
• Kubernetes and Docker
• Messaging Systems: IBM MQ, Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Tibco
• Tomcat, Jetty, Apache HTTPD
• Able to work with build/configure/deploy automation tools, Jenkin, Light Speed
• Linux Ecosystem
• Autosys
• APIm
• APM Tools: Dynatrace, AppDynamics, etc
• Caching Technologies: Redis, Hazelcast, MemCached

Experience with design and implementations of cloud-ready applications and deployment pipelines on large-scale container platform clusters is a plus