Java Application Development Manager

• Partner with multiple management teams to ensure appropriate integration of functions to meet goals as well as identify and define necessary system enhancements to deploy new products and process improvements
• Accountable for executing and driving results on large-scale efforts or multiple smaller efforts and serving as a development lead for most medium and large projects
• Provide expertise in area and advanced knowledge of applications programming and ensure application design adheres to the overall architecture blueprint
• Utilize advanced knowledge of system flow and develop standards for coding, testing, debugging, and implementation
• Develop comprehensive knowledge of how areas of business, such as architecture and infrastructure, integrate to accomplish business goals
• Provide in-depth analysis with interpretive thinking to define issues and develop innovative solutions
• Serve as advisor or coach to mid-level developers and analysts, allocating work as necessary
• Independent work style, requiring little or no guidance by more senior developers
• Assist in the planning and managing of application development assignments generally involving large budgets, cross functional projects or multiple projects
• Accountable for providing guidance on architecturally significant efforts during the preplanning phase, and ensuring principles and best practices are followed prior to initiation of work
• Provide a long-term perspective for business and technology choices
• using technical judgment to vet architecture as required
• Able to direct teams on how to develop and deliver systems that are efficient with resource usage such as hardware, runtime, performance, load, and memory requirements
• Accountable for providing architectural guidance to the SDE’s based on best practices and in alignment with CTO guidelines and platform
• Drive clarity and work with complete independence as business and or technical strategy is not defined
• Provide the corresponding architectural guidance, and conduct design reviews and code reviews based on the projects assigned to your LOB
• Elaborate, bring and communicate clear metrics on Design Reviews, Code Reviews, CI/CD and Design Patterns adoption
• Communicate progress, anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, identify, assess, track and mitigate issues/risks at multiple levels
• Demonstrate the ability to implement continuous improvement and the induction of new technology
• 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

• 10-15 years of relevant experience in Apps Development or systems analysis role
• Experience of designing and delivering complex multi-system, distributed, highly available development projects
• Proven experience of solution design and architecture in successful deliveries using technologies like Microservices, big data, java etc
• Experience with architectural methodologies and frameworks
• Should be aware of Architectural design pattern, design principals etc
• Should have strong hands-on experience on Java, Spring Boot, Database, JDBC, JMS, Rest Big Data /Distributed System, etc
• Experience using ALM and CICD tools like Bitbucket, TFS, Jenkins, uDeploy, BMC RLM or related tools in an agile methodology
• Experience in Leading project solution architecture design on various levels, including high and detailed level design
• Should have strong hands-on experience in big data processing, ETL frameworks like Spring batch, Spring Data flow, Apache Spark, Flink, etc.
• Should have experience in NO-SQL database like Mongo DB / Cassandra
• Should have experience in distributed messaging framework like Kafka / Rabbit MQ / JMS, etc.
• Should have experience on AI tools like Github copilot , chatGpt and open AI frameworks
• Should have exposure in application containerization such as Build / Develop / Deploy using dockers and Kubernetes
• Should have exposure in Distributed caching frameworks like Hazelcast / Apache Ignite, etc.
• Should have exposure application monitoring and tracing tools like SPLUNK, ELK etc
• Good to have exposure in reporting framework like Tableau, informatica, Power BI etc
• Experience in Solution Architecture documentation and other architectural deliverables
• Experience in providing solutions for a wide range of technologies – Java, Databae, Cloud and, Web Technologies, etc
• Experience in working in both waterfall and Agile methodologies
• Ability to adjust priorities quickly as circumstances dictate
• Demonstrated leadership and project management skills
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication
• Experience within a banking/finance environment would be preferable

Good to have exposure in reporting framework like Tableau, informatica, Power BI etc