Senior Java Engineering Lead, Citi

Citi

Location:
Canada, Mississauga

Category:
IT - Software Development

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Job Description:

In Markets Engineering and Architecture, we are committed to provide the best experience for our engineers. We are looking for highly motivated individuals who can help us to shape the foundational engineering services for our Developer Community. The Senior Java Engineering Lead is a senior level position responsible for establishing and implementing and driving the adoption of new solutions to accelerate the experience of our engineers towards the Technology Strategy being actively engaged on trending initiatives such as API, Public Cloud, DevOps, Codified Blueprints, AI, others. The individual applying for this position must be able to translate problems to codified solutions. It will be required to code most part of the time.

Job Responsibility:

Champion a team of engineers to meet the engineering goals, deploy new products, enhance processes, and drive the organization towards engineering platforms
Drive the design and implementation of robust, scalable, and secure APIs
Coordinate the migration of critical applications to Public Cloud (AWS, GCP, etc)
Identify opportunities for improvements on our CICD Pipelines and Observability
Develop and Promote codified blueprints and reusable patterns for application development, infrastructure, and security
Mentor and Coach engineers on best practices in software development, clean code, testing, and operational excellence, as well as ensuring the definition of automated metrics and goals
Provide expertise in area of advanced knowledge of engineering and plan assignments involving cross functional project, or multiple projects
Implement AI Engineering Solutions to support the productivity of our engineers
Develop engineering methodologies and standards for program analysis, design, coding, testing, debugging, and implementation
Utilize advanced knowledge of supported main system flows and comprehensive knowledge of multiple areas to achieve technology goals
Develop PoV/PoC to quickly pivot the problem analysis into scale engineering solutions across the organization
Guide sessions with end users to identify system function specifications and incorporate into overall system design
Allocate work, and act as an advisor/coach developers, analysts, and new team members
Influence and negotiate with senior leaders and communicate with external parties
Manage a small group of Senior Engineers and DevOps Solutions
Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients, and assets.

Requirements:

10+ years of relevant experience coding in Java, Java Frameworks, Concurrency, Python, Kotlin, TypeScript, others
Experience in AWS or GCP, Microservices, Event-Driven, DDD, API (RestFul, GraphQL, Messaging, etc), Secure Design and Coding, Blueprints, Patterns, and Code Standards
Experience in CICD Pipelines and tools such as Harness, Ansible, Tekton, Jenkins, SonarQube, Junit/Cucumber, Observability (e.g: Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk), etc.
Experience in database (e.g: Oracle, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra, or similar)
Experience in AI Engineering Solutions (e.g: Copilot, Agentic AI, Devin.ai or similar, LLMs, etc.)
Demonstrated Subject Matter Expert (SME) in area(s) of Applications Development and/or proven results of managing large adoption for engineering practices
Experience in Financial Industry – Markets will be considered a plus
Demonstrated leadership, agile project management, risk management, and development skills
Proven record of delivering trainings
Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
Master’s degree preferred
Certification in AWS, GCP, others will be considered a plus.

Nice to have:

Master’s degree preferred
Certification in AWS, GCP, others will be considered a plus
Experience in Financial Industry – Markets will be considered a plus.

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Job Posted:
August 15, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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