Senior Java Developer, Citi

Citi

Location:
India, Chennai

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Employment contract

Salary:

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Job Description:

The Digital S/W Engineer Sr Analyst role entails designing and developing applications, guiding technical implementations, and addressing complex code, performance, and design challenges. It involves partnering with vendors, participating in full software lifecycles, mentoring junior developers, and ensuring systems integrate seamlessly within the organization to meet business objectives.

Job Responsibility:

Accountable for executing and driving mid-size feature application design and development efforts to completion, serving as a development lead on medium-scale projects and supporting the execution of larger efforts
Proficient at operating with considerable autonomy and discretion as you will significantly influence the way an application is designed and developed by providing subject specific expertise and an advanced level of understanding of application programming principles
Sought after due to ability to analyze and troubleshoot coding, application performance and design challenges
Capable of research in root cause of development and performance concerns as well as the resolution of defects
Have a deep understanding of the technical requirements for the solutions being built
Understand engineering needs including those required to build, maintain, and operate the system through all phases of its life
Proficient in information modeling, data structures and algorithms
Understand maintenance characteristics, runtime properties and dependencies that exist in support of your system’s software
Demonstrate an advanced understanding of supported main system flows and possess a comprehensive understanding of how the system and others (i.e. architecture or infrastructure) collectively integrate to contribute towards achieving business objectives
Participate in design discussions as a Development Lead and as such will play the part of a key decision maker in driving design decisions
Partner with industry vendors that provide technology or user experience design components that support our Digital architecture and work with vendors on our implementation plans and roadmaps identifying partnership opportunities to increase our development velocity and our learnings
Participate in the full development life cycle, identify dependencies between agile and waterfall delivery, working within broadly defined parameters, including test plan execution and software quality needs
Directly impact the business by influencing strategic functional decisions through advice, counsel or provided services
Communicate progress, anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, identify, assess, track and mitigate issues/risks at multiple levels
Recognize discordant views and take part in constructive dialog to resolve them
Work across teams to optimize processes
Regularly review metrics and proactively seek out new and improved mechanisms for visibility ensuring your program stays aligned with organization objectives
Continuously assess development processes, test plans, and operations
Work with teams to improve concurrent project delivery
Streamline and / or eliminate excess process in any area of architecture, build, delivery, production operations environment, or business area where the same efforts (or issues) are repeated year-over-year
Share knowledge with the team in various forums (brown bags, engineering forums etc.) and demonstrate a higher level of knowledge through industry certifications

Requirements:

5-8 years in a product development/product management environment
Strong analytical and quantitative skills
Data driven and results-oriented
Experience delivering with an agile methodology
Experience in affecting large culture change
Experience leading infrastructure programs
Skilled at working with third party service providers
Excellent written and oral communication skills
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

What we offer:

Equal opportunity employer
Reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
August 20, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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