Application Development Lead

We are seeking Application Development Lead for Payment Modernisation development team.

The successful candidate will interact with key stakeholders from product, operations and other teams for handling of application activities and new projects. The candidate will also interact with the development Project Manager, the development, testing, and production support teams, as well as other Citigroup departments (such as System Administrators, Database Administrators, Data Centre Operations, and Change Control groups) for Payment platforms. He/she requires exceptional communication skills across both technology and the business and will have a high degree of visibility. The candidate will be a rigorous technical manager with a strong understanding of how to build scalable, enterprise level global applications.

The ideal candidate will be dependable and resourceful software professional who can comfortably work in a large development team in a globally distributed, dynamic work environment that fosters diversity, teamwork and collaboration. The ability to work in a high-pressured environment is essential.

• Lead technical leadership of large scale/complex global software solutions on payments platform
• Lead integration of functions to meet goals, deploy new products, and enhance processes
• Analyse complex business processes, system processes, and industry standards to define and develop solutions to high level problems
• Provide expertise in area of advanced knowledge of applications programming and plan assignments involving large budgets, cross functional projects, or multiple projects
• 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
• 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.

• Responsible for providing technical leadership of multiple large scale/complex software solutions, including extending the platform through custom development, customization and integration with in-house and vendor solutions
• Strong experience with various Payments schemes, preferably Faster Payments, and payments messaging formats such as ISO 8583, ISO 20022, and SWIFT
• Experience in building enterprise transaction-based systems with focus on recovery, stability, reliability, scalability and performance
• Conversant with various technologies and transforming legacy systems to new age technologies befitting business needs
• Strong understanding of object-oriented analysis and design, design patterns, high availability and concurrent programming
• Interpret business strategy and determine innovative technology solutions with the ability to manage and evaluate data and innovation pipeline
• Design, research, develop, analyse and recommend new solutions to enable strategic decision making and go to market processes
• Strong knowledge to design payment flows and provide solutions
• Work closely with Program Management and Quality Control teams to deliver quality software to agreed project schedules
• Compliance with Citi's System Development Lifecycle and Information Security requirements
• Demonstrated software development acumen with experience in Java, J2EE, Spring framework, Hibernate, JPA, App Server, JMS/MQ
• Experience in building multithreaded applications and troubleshooting related issues
• Experience working with multiple operating systems (Unix, Linux, Windows)
• Experience in performance tuning of large technical solutions with significant volumes

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Computer Engineering or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• Minimum 12+ years of application design and development experience
• Minimum 5 years of experience leading globally distributed development
• Experience in application production support management
• Demonstrated people and technical management skills
• Experience in application BAU and production support management
• Proven track record for innovation, payment strategy and overall technology governance

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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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Most Relevant Skills

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Other Relevant Skills

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Citi is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law.