Java Lead, Citi - Job Offer

Citi

Location:
India, Chennai

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Employment contract

Salary:

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Job Description:

The Digital Software Engineering Lead Analyst is a strategic professional responsible for driving large-scale software development projects, providing architectural guidance, and ensuring compliance with design best practices. Responsibilities include mentoring teams, conducting design and code reviews, publishing design patterns, and empowering developers to deliver scalable, resilient solutions within Citi's technology ecosystem.

Job Responsibility:

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
support situations in which end user consultation is required to identify system function specifications and incorporate them into overall system design and delivery
publish design review extensions and provide documented guidance aligned to sprint plans and timelines
drive design reviews for Next Gen Architecture (NGA) and Plan of Record (POR) projects, supporting design principles and best practices
empower software development engineers (SDEs) and their teams by mentoring and coaching
participate in discussions to drive smart trade-off decisions that balance efforts, delivery timelines, features, and technical constraints
solve for dependencies between agile and waterfall delivery efforts
create plans that have a clear path to delivery
accountable for providing architectural guidance to SDEs based on best practices and in alignment with CTO guidelines and platform
demonstrate examples of influence in scrum teams beyond your own area of focus.

Requirements:

6-10 years of relevant experience in an Apps Development role or senior level experience in an Enterprise Architecture role with subject matter expert in one or more areas
exhibit expertise in all aspects of technology by understanding broader patterns and techniques as they apply to Citi’s internal and external cloud platforms (AWS, PCF, Akamai)
lead resources and serve as a functional SME across the company through advanced knowledge of algorithms, data structures, distributed systems, networking, use of knowledge and experience to lead, architect, and drive broader adoption forward
acquire relevant technology and financial industry skills (AWS PWS) and understand all aspects of NGA technology – including innovative approaches and new opportunities
demonstrate knowledge on automating code quality, code performance, unit testing, and build processing in the CI/CD
expertise to architecture experience in building horizontally scalable, highly available, highly resilient, and low latency applications
suggesting architectural improvements, design and integration solutions, and formulating methodologies to optimize object-oriented software and database development of existing enterprise systems
expertise building web applications using Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, Angular/React, and Oracle/PostgreSQL technology stack
expertise in enterprise integrations through RESTful APIs, Kafka messaging etc.
expertise in Elastic Search, NoSQL databases, and Caching solutions
expertise in troubleshooting and problem solving
expertise in site reliability engineering
expertise in test driven development
expertise performing code/design reviews and ensuring overall quality and timely delivery of project milestones while leading a team of developers
exposure to cloud infrastructure both on-premise and public cloud (i.e., OpenShift, AWS, Snowflake)
exposure to Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, either on-premise or public cloud (Tekton, Harness, Jenkins, etc.)
exposure to infrastructure as code tools (i.e.IntelliJ)
experience mentoring junior developers
familiarity with AWS cloud, prepare to migrate applications, services, and data to AWS.

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
August 05, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

On-site work

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