Big Data Application Group Manager, Citi

Citi

Location:
India, Chennai

Category:
IT - Software Development

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Job Description:

We are seeking a Software/Application group manager for Global Data Platform team. The successful candidate will liaison with leadership teams from senior leadership (global heads), architecture, program, and product organizations, as well as other departments within Citigroup for Services Data platforms to delivery critical data applications. The candidate will be a rigorous technical leader with a strong understanding and track record of how to build scalable, high throughput, enterprise level modern data pipelines and application delivery.

Job Responsibility:

Managing dynamic and passionate development organization across different technology skills – Bigdata, ETL, Database, project management
Spearhead multiple Applications development teams to accomplish established goals as well as conduct personnel duties for team (e.g. performance evaluations, hiring and coaching & mentoring)
Design and architecture complex data applications and, review & analyze proposed technical solutions for projects
Embracing high architecture principles by contributing to Citi level architecture councils
Build technology focused community to thrive innovation, competitive learning, Citi AI tools, engineering excellence and collaboration forums
Active contribution to Citi's technology forums on hackathon, spotlight, conference, workshops, IP, councils
Strong people leader by building growth career for the team members across levels and functions
Be inspirational leader by setting high standards, goals and lead by example
Utilize in-depth knowledge and skills across multiple Applications Development areas to provide technical oversight across systems and applications
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
Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets

Requirements:

Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or equivalent
Minimum 15+ years of work experience
At least 10+ years of experience of leading Enterprise Bigdata Development and Data Science (Analytical) teams
Experience developing Applications for High volume payments, risk, statement/reporting industry is a significant plus
Experience working in Banking technology is preferred
Very strong Engineer excellence knowledge and experience like Data patterns, Pipelines, DQs, Recons, Governance, Scalable application traits and cloud portable coding
Project management, interpersonal, and communication skills, with high attention to details
Strong technical skills and hand-on in Spark/Scala, Kafka, Hadoop, Couchbase, HBASE and Snowflake
MQs/Kafka/NDM, Autosys, UNIX scripting, data validation, automation
Strong Architecture knowledge in design and develop Real-time (Streaming) and batch processing of different data formats/structures
Experience in Database technologies (Oracle/SQL or Mongo) and development skills (Sql/Stored Proc development including performance tuning)
Experience in working Unix/Linux and Shell scripting
Bigdata HIVE, HDFS, Spark, Kafka, IMPALA, Cloud ecosystems like AWS
Exposure in working on RabbitMQ/ JMS / MQ /Cache DBs/ Hybrid Cloud service integration & applications
Demonstrated people and technical management skills, leading large teams (25-50+ members) high calibre developers & software designers
Stakeholder Management experience to drive discussions between Business, Solutions, Operations and Application Teams
Verbal and written communication skills, both technical and functional

Nice to have:

Experience developing Applications for High volume payments, risk, statement/reporting industry
Experience working in Banking technology
Exposure to tools like Grafana, Kibana/ELK, Splunk
Good to have experience in Data specific development on Cloud platforms like AWS and GCP
Good to have experience in build and sustain strong relationships with the senior business leaders associated with the platform

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
October 30, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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