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Citi is spearheading a critical multi-year technology initiative within the Wholesale Lending Credit Risk (WLCR) Technology Space, a domain pivotal to the firm's lending operations. This strategic journey requires a highly motivated and accomplished Senior Vice President, Full Stack Lead Java Architect to drive the design, development, and delivery of a next-generation platform. This platform will encompass robust Messaging, API, and Workflow Components vital for Loans Services across the bank. The solution is being built from the ground up, leveraging cutting-edge technologies including Java, Spring Boot, and Kafka.
Job Responsibility:
Strategic Technical Leadership: Provide vision and strategic direction for the full stack development across Angular/React, Java, and Spring Boot ecosystems, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards and business objectives
Architectural Design & Solutioning: Lead the detailed design and architectural blueprinting of scalable, resilient, and performant solutions, leveraging deep expertise in Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, and microservices architectures
Team Leadership & Management: Recruit, mentor, and manage high-performance engineering teams, fostering a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement
Stakeholder Engagement & Management: Proactively engage with senior business stakeholders, product owners, and other technology groups to understand requirements, manage expectations, communicate progress, and influence strategic decisions
Hands-on Technical Guidance: Provide hands-on expertise in complex coding challenges, code reviews, and technical problem-solving
Quality Assurance & Standards: Champion and enforce high standards for code quality, security, and maintainability
Innovation & Adoption: Continuously evaluate and advocate for the adoption of new development tools, libraries, and approaches to enhance delivery quality, efficiency, and system resilience
Vulnerability & Security Management: Implement stringent security practices, analyze applications for vulnerabilities, and lead efforts in ensuring compliance with Citi's security policies and standards
Documentation & Knowledge Transfer: Oversee the creation and maintenance of comprehensive user and system documentation, architectural diagrams, and knowledge transfer processes
Problem Resolution & Escalation: Act as a primary escalation point for complex technical issues, exercising expert judgment to identify root causes, analyze information, and implement effective, sustainable solutions
Compliance & Risk Management: Appropriately assess risk when making business decisions, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients, and assets
Requirements:
Expert-level Full Stack Development: Demonstrated mastery in UI/UX design principles and tools (e.g., Figma), with extensive experience in Angular, React, and associated testing frameworks (Jest)
Advanced Java Ecosystem Proficiency: Deep expertise in Java, Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Web, Spring Data, coupled with hands-on experience in Threading, Collections, Exception Handling, JDBC, OOD/OOP Concepts, and GoF Design Patterns
Messaging & Integration Architectures: Extensive experience with Messaging-Oriented Middleware (MoM), Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), and Micro-services utilizing REST, with a strong understanding of Kafka and other enterprise messaging systems (e.g., RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, IBM MQ)
Cloud-Native & DevOps Expertise: Proven experience in designing and implementing cloud-ready applications and deployment pipelines on large-scale container platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker). Strong understanding of CI/CD environments and tools (Tekton, Harness, Jenkins, Code Quality)
Database Expertise: Proficient in SQL, particularly Oracle dialect, with comprehensive knowledge of database design, optimization, and integration patterns
Architectural & Design Principles: In-depth knowledge of industry-standard best practices, design patterns, coding standards, modularity, and prototyping
System Optimization & Troubleshooting: Advanced skills in debugging, performance tuning, and optimizing complex enterprise applications
Agile & SDLC Leadership: Thorough understanding and practical experience leading teams within the Agile SDLC framework
Leadership & Communication: Exceptional written and oral communication skills, with a proven ability to lead, influence, and articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical senior stakeholders
Financial Services Industry Experience: Extensive experience (12+ years) developing applications within the Financial Services industry is essential
Nice to have:
Application Servers: Experience with application servers like Tomcat, Jetty, Apache HTTPD
Automation & Scripting: Ability to work with and develop build/configure/deploy automation tools, and familiarity with Linux ecosystems
APM & Monitoring Tools: Experience with Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools such as Dynatrace, AppDynamics
Caching Technologies: Experience with distributed caching solutions like Hazelcast, MemCached, Redis