Java Lead

• 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
• assist in the planning and managing of application development assignments generally involving large budgets, cross functional projects or multiple projects
• effectively understanding and analyzing both technical and business risks and impact
• provide guidance on architecturally significant efforts during the preplanning phase
• align design reviews and provide documented guidance to sprint plans and timelines
• drive design reviews for Next Gen Architecture (NGA) and Plan of Record (POR) projects
• mentor and coach SDEs and their teams
• oversee broader design decisions and development of long-term strategies that influence the development process
• accountable for providing architectural guidance to the SDE’s in alignment with CTO guidelines
• solve for dependencies between agile and waterfall delivery efforts
• implement continuous improvement and the induction of new technology

• 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
• 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
• bachelor’s/University degree, Master’s degree preferred
• 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

• Mentoring junior developers
• familiarity with AWS cloud, preparing to migrate applications and services

Global benefits designed to support well-being, growth and work-life balance