Lead Java Developer (VP)

• Lead or guide developers in an Application Development team in an effort to accomplish established goals as well as 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
• 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
• Develop common, reusable components and services utilizing Citi's best practices
• Create high performance, low latency applications leveraging existing Citi framework
• Ensure strong reliability, scalability and performance of our components
• Liaise with technical and business teams to collaborate on identifying opportunities and solutions
• Drive architecture and execute on our technical strategy
• Partner with business to continue to evolve our architecture roadmap beyond near term objectives
• Impact the Applications Development area through monitoring delivery of end results, participate in budget management, and handling day-to-day staff management issues, including resource management and allocation of work within the team/project
• 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, 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, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards

• Strong proven relevant commercial experience in the Financial Service industry
• Solid understanding on financial products like Fixed Income securities and expertise on Security Financing Transactions
• Experience as senior developer and tech expert in an Applications Development team with good understanding of major programming languages/frameworks like Java / Spring stack for microservice development and a demonstrable understanding of Java internals (JIT, advanced debugging scenarios, JVM memory management etc.)
• Extensive experience in building applications delivered on cloud-based services
• Experience in micro services architecture based application development for high volume
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication
• Demonstrable understanding and experience of engineering best practices: design patterns, coding standard, code review, unit testing via Mockito and Junit
• Ability to develop strong relationships with others, effectively influencing peers and business partners
• Self-motivated and organized, with determination to achieve goals
• ability to work autonomously when required
• Proven project management skills
• Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience

Master's degree

• 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• A discretional annual performance related bonus
• Private Medical Care & Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Pension Plan
• Paid Parental Leave
• Special discounts for employees, family, and friends
• Access to an array of learning and development resources