Lead Big Data - Spark Developer, Citi

Citi

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India, Chennai

Category:
IT - Software Development

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Job Description:

Software/Application Dev Lead Analyst for Global Data Platform team. The successful candidate will interact with development, testing, and production support teams, as well as other departments within Citigroup for Services Data platforms. Requires exceptional communication skills across both technology and the business. Dependable and resourceful software professional who can comfortably work in and lead a large development team in a distributed, dynamic work environment.

Job Responsibility:

Manage one or more Applications Development teams to accomplish established goals
Conduct personnel duties for team (e.g. performance evaluations, hiring and disciplinary actions)
Utilize in-depth knowledge and skills across multiple Applications Development areas to provide technical oversight across systems and applications
Review and analyze proposed technical solutions for projects
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
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

Requirements:

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or equivalent
Minimum 15 years of work experience
At least 8 years of experience of leading Enterprise Bigdata Development and Data Science (Analytical) teams
Experience developing Applications for High volume instanced payments and/or AML 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 hand-on seasoned engineer/lead in Bigdata data store application building using enterprise SDLC/Agile methodology, Data modelling/Architect, supporting Operational and production systems
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
Observability specific AI/ML tools to analysis application and business data for continuous improvements of application/tools/frameworks
Demonstrated people and technical management skills, leading a team of 8-10 high caliber developers & software designers
Responsible for providing technical leadership of multiple large scale/complex software solutions
Experience of developing/mentoring/guide teams consisting of permanent employees and vendors of 15 – 20 developers
Stakeholder Management experience to drive discussions between Business, Solutions, Operations and Application Teams
Verbal and written communication skills, both technical and functional
Fostering culture of Innovation, cutting-edge technologies suite Banking landscape, Passionate to explore new approaches/architecture/solution/automation/refactoring and reengineering

Nice to have:

Data specific development on Cloud platforms like AWS and GCP
Experience developing applications for Payment and AML industries
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
Working on RabbitMQ/ JMS / MQ /Cache DBs/ Hybrid Cloud service integration & applications
Build and sustain strong relationships with the senior business leaders associated with the platform
Work with onsite development partners to ensure design and coding best practices
Work closely with Program Management and Quality Control teams to deliver quality software to agreed project schedules
Understanding technology industry trends, how these affect our future solutions and provide strategic direction for the development community

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
August 21, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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