Group Manager Applications Development

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Job Overview

• Citi has embarked on a multi-year transformation effort to simplify and modernize its legacy core banking platform. As part of the transformation, the Demand Deposit Account (DDA) module residing within the legacy core banking platform will be migrated onto a modern cloud native next generation DDA platform. The DDA platform will provide account management and transaction posting capabilities for Citi’s Institutional Clients Group (ICG) business globally.
  Citi has completed the selection of the DDA platform, built the foundational ecosystem with the new platform. The expansion of the setup for various markets now requires an experienced and knowledgeable individual, who will need to be hands on with platform to understand, design and develop it for future deployments
  The Applications Development Group 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:

• Lead the Citi DDA development team working alongside the vendor DDA solution provider team to enhance, manage and run the DDA platform
• Engage with Citi Product Owners, architects and squad members within the transformation program to understand the requirements and map them into the APIs and events out of the DDA platform
• Collaborate with DDA provider to ensure the requirements are delivered on-time and with quality
• Interact and co-ordinate with DDA solution provider peer squads and downstream squads like security, SRE, Data
• Manage, guide, and work with a high-quality team of engineers
• Lead the implementation of DDA in line with the market roll out strategy
• 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
• 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 to maintain these standards.
  Professional Qualifications and attributes
• Over 12 years of relevant experience, Bachelors or higher degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• 8+ years in application development
• Notable skill for establishing rapport and credibility with product owners and technical architects
• Strong engineering team management capability
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a wide range of people, both internally and externally
• Has had significant experience in managing high-speed feature development on AWS
• Experience with cloud native core banking solutions
• Experience with modernization of core banking platforms
  Technical Qualifications:
• Microservice development using Java, Golang, Groovy  (non-negotiable)
• Strong knowledge of Distributed transactions (non-negotiable)
• In depth knowledge in the AWS services, namely a few includes S3, EC2, Private Link, Route 53, VPC, SQS, SNS (non-negotiable)
• Strong architecture knowledge of modern cloud-based development frameworks including microservices, APIs, CI-CD frameworks, data streaming
• MySQL, DynamoDB, Aurora DB, NoSQL
• REST APIs
• JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Mobile development frameworks (Angular, React)
  Education:
• Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience
• Master's degree preferred