The Applications Development Senior Manager is a senior management level position responsible for accomplishing results through the management of a team or department in an effort 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.
Responsibilities:
- Manage one or more Applications Development teams 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
- Review and analyze proposed technical solutions for projects
- Contribute to formulation of strategies for applications development and other functional areas
- 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
- 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.
Qualifications:
- 6-10 years of relevant experience in the Financial Service industry
- Experience as Applications Development Manager
- Experience as senior level in an Applications Development role
- Stakeholder and people management experience
- Demonstrated leadership skills
- Proven project management skills
- Basic 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.
Fixed Income ETrading Overview
The evolution of electronic trading and automation has changed the way that fixed income products trade forever; driving a need for real-time, low latency pricing, market making and risk technology. In this increasingly electronic and competitive landscape, Citi is key player due to its leading eTrading platform and investment in technology. The Fixed Income ETrading team is at the forefront by building high-performance, low latency technology that supports the execution of billions of dollars of client trades every day. Our competitive advantage is our technology and having a platform that provides exceptional and dependable trading experience. If you are capable of seeing ahead, of developing a clear path forward in a quest to try the untried, here is the opportunity.
The Fixed Income eTrading Data team are responsible for delivery of real time data feeds and straight through processing (STP) of electronic trades for the Fixed Income trading desks. Our trading desks continually want to trade with new clients and products electronically in real time with increased volumes to grow the business, creating a continual demand for new data feeds and seamless integrations with vendor systems. This in turn demands best in class design, engineering and continuous delivery pipelines to meet our users’ expectations, and we need an engineering manager to drive delivery and move us towards our goal of releasing code on the same day functionality changes are requested by our users.
The Engineering Manager is responsible for all technology deliveries by the Fixed Income eTrading Data team. The overall objective of this role is to lead the team to frequently deliver high quality software that will enable Citi to meet it’s goals on data quality and completeness.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and motivate a team of Java developers to deliver on a backlog of business asks
- Partner with technical product managers and traders in New York and London on requirements
- Plan sprints in JIRA that deliver on functionality, reduce technical debt and reduce time to deliver
- Run scrums daily to review and overcome blockers to the team’s ability to execute on the sprint
- Partner with QA on manual and automated testing and operational teams to deliver functionality
- Drive the technical roadmap to a cloud native architecture for data capture and STP
- Utilize in-depth knowledge and skills across multiple Applications Development areas to provide technical oversight across systems and applications
- Review and analyze proposed technical solutions for projects
- Contribute to formulation of strategies for applications development and other functional areas
- 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
- 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.
Qualifications:
- 6-10 years of Development Management experience in the Financial Service industry
- Experience as Applications Development Manager
- 5+ years of experience of Java server side development in real time systems/data feeds
- 2+ years of experience in running a team with Agile project management / JIRA
- Experience of industry standard tools for Java on Linux – IntelliJ, Git, Gradle, JUnit, Jenkins
- Stakeholder and people management experience
- Demonstrated leadership skills
- Proven project management skills
- Basic 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
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Job Family Group:
Technology
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Job Family:
Applications Development
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Time Type:
Full time
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