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Senior Technical Java Lead – Senior Vice President

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Citi is a world-leading global bank. We have approximately 200 million customer accounts and a presence in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions worldwide. We provide consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management. We enable clients to achieve their strategic financial objectives by providing them with cutting-edge ideas, best-in-class products and solutions, and unparalleled access to capital and liquidity.

Job Responsibility:

  • Develop platform vision and strategy to support Prime Growth, working closely with the global technology leads
  • Deliver on an aggressive agenda whilst providing technical oversight of a team of developers locally
  • Resolve variety of high impact problems/projects through in-depth evaluation of complex business processes, system processes, and industry standards
  • Ensure change is managed with appropriate controls, documentation, and approvals including implementation of new and revised regulatory reporting requirements
  • Solve the highest-impact, highest-profile problems with significant business impact through in-depth evaluation of complex business processes, system processes and industry standards
  • Provide expertise in area and advanced knowledge of applications programming and ensure application design adheres to the overall architecture blueprint
  • Utilise advanced knowledge of system flow and develop standards for coding, testing, debugging, and implementation
  • Develop comprehensive knowledge of how areas of business, such as architecture and infrastructure, integrate to accomplish business goals
  • Contribute to technical direction and strategic decisions as a technical expert in all development and implementation phases, providing in-depth and sophisticated analyses to define problems and develop innovative solutions
  • Provide in-depth analysis with interpretive thinking to define issues and develop innovative solutions
  • Serve as adviser or coach to mid-level developers and analysts
  • 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 judgement regarding personal behaviour, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency

Requirements:

  • 10+ years of relevant experience in Applications Development and previous leadership of developers
  • Awareness of building event based systems with low latency trading requirements
  • Comprehensive experience with all phases of Software Development Life Cycle, including Agile delivery
  • Demonstrated ability to work under pressure managing multiple activities and changing priorities
  • Ability to adjust priorities quickly as circumstances dictate
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
  • Flexibility to work with a global team, across geographies and time zones
  • Technical skills in Java, Kafka, Distributed Caching, SQL, Git
  • Experience in performing QA, TDD and BDD practices
  • Experience with building containerised solutions that horizontally scale
  • Exposure to AI solutions to accelerate development
  • Proven ability to work in high pressure environment
  • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to think strategically

Nice to have:

  • React and full stack development
  • Knowledge of Prime Services is a plus

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
May 05, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
On-site work
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