The Applications Development Group Manager is a senior management level position responsible for accomplishing results through the management of a team or department to establish and implement new or revised application systems and programs in coordination with the Technology Team. The overall objective of this role is to drive applications systems analysis and programming activities.
Citi Commercial Bank (CCB) provides global banking capabilities and services around the world to mid-sized, globally oriented companies across all stages of their growth. This job opening will help CCB to build sophisticated solutions that will be targeting 100% digitalization and automation of the applications.
Responsibilities:
- Manage multiple teams of professionals to accomplish established goals and conduct personnel duties for team (e.g. performance evaluations, hiring and disciplinary actions).
- Provide strategic influence and exercise control over resources, budget management and planning while monitoring end results.
- Utilize in-depth knowledge of concepts and procedures within own area and basic knowledge of other areas to resolve issues.
- Ensure essential procedures are followed and contribute to defining standards.
- Integrate in-depth knowledge of applications development with overall technology function to achieve established goals.
- Provide evaluative judgement based on analysis of facts in complicated, unique, and dynamic situations including drawing from internal and external sources.
- Influence and negotiate with senior leaders across functions, as well as communicate with external parties as 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.
Required skills:
- Manage global technology teams, stakeholders, and various partners to identify and deliver technology needs and make recommendations to business decision-makers.
- Evaluate risk and controls issues, evaluate CCB’s adherence against it, and ensure strict compliance to the security of the applications.
- Manage the Citi’s technology infrastructure, including software, hardware, and procured products.
- Oversee the day-to-day operations of the technology department, including troubleshooting and resolving technical issues.
- Keep up to date with new and emerging technologies and recommend how they can be leveraged to improve business operations.
- Strong Core Java and functional programming experience.
- Strong front-end development experience, preferable in React-JS.
- Strong experience in data modeling and experience with relational and no-SQL database, Oracle and MongoDB.
- Understanding of integrating APIs with third party libraries/vendors and handle the security around it.
- Understanding of microservices architecture, including service discovery, API gateways, and inter-service communication.
- Knowledge of security practices in distributed systems, including encryption, authentication, authorization, and secure communication.
- Utilize advanced knowledge of system flow and develop standards for coding, testing, debugging, and implementation.
Other areas (required):
- 15+ years of relevant experience in full stack development.
- Exceptional problem-solving and analytical skills to diagnose and resolve issues in distributed environments.
- Exceptional skills in monitoring, logging, and debugging distributed systems to ensure reliability and performance.
- Expertise in fundamental concepts such as consistency, availability, partition tolerance, fault tolerance, and scalability.
- Familiarity with container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes), and distributed messaging systems (e.g., Kafka).
- Experience using Git/BitBucket.
- Excellent communication (written and verbal), presentation (includes PowerPoint creations), and interpersonal skills.
Other areas (good to have):
- Knowledge of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Large Language Models (LLMs).
- Working experience in financial industry as a technologist.
- Experience or knowledge of in Commercial Banking.
Qualifications:
- Experience in applications development
- Experience in management
- Working knowledge of industry practices and standards
- Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
- Master’s degree preferred
This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.
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