Principal Engineer - Senior Vice President

The Principal Engineer is a senior management level position within Citi’s payments team. This role will drive the technical vision & implementation supporting eCommerce. This role will cover the end to end technical stack from the core API’s supporting Citi’s clients to the integrations and infrastructure we build to provide a complete eCommerce suite of capabilities.

Responsibilities:

• Act as a visionary and strategist for solution/application/system across the platform.

• Provide expertise to identify and translate system requirement into software design artifacts.

• High level of expertise in programming and solving problems.

• Drive experiments, PoC to assess new solutions /application paths.

• To work proactively & independently to address project requirements, and articulate issues/challenges at appropriate time to address project delivery risks.

• Follow industry wide best practices to minimize technical debt of software deliverables.

• Interface and coordinate tasks with internal and external technical resources. Collaborate to provide estimates, develop overall implementation solutions/application plan, and serve as a lead as required, to implement the installation, customization, and integration efforts.

• As a specialist in design and development, you will apply your skill and experience within fast-paced operations centric environment towards developing architecture and design for the regulatory platform at large.

Technical Skills Required:

• Strong hands-on lead developer with technical ability having 10+ years of design & development experience.

• Practitioner and Advocate of CLEAN code practice.

• practitioner of AI tools in driving productivity and efficiencies.

• Experience in design and development of medium to large-scale applications using open-source tech stack - Spring boot, Microservices, Kafka.

• Strong Java skills.

• Experience with databases: MongoDB

• Experience in writing unit test and integration test using standard frameworks, ensuring minimized technical debt.

• Experience in building CI CD pipeline and single click deployment -Tecton, Harness, Lightspeed, Openshift

• Ability to drive engineering deliveries and handle multiple concurrent initiatives.

• Functional and Technical Specs documentation.

• Experience with testing concepts (TDD, BDD) and Junit

Soft skills required:

• Curious mindset. Able to identify and solve problems effectively.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

• Pragmatic, and a creative approach to managing risk.

• An advocate of inclusion and diversity in every way.

• A growth mindset and willingness to learn and adapt in a fast-paced environment.

• Shows enthusiasm and develops trust through empathy.

• Passionate about site reliability engineering and its impact on product development.

• Connected to latest technologies, like Generative AI, and keen to put them in practice.

• A self-starter with the ability to work effectively in teams and remotely

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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Primary Location:

Tampa Florida United States

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Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:

$141,440.00 - $212,160.00

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