Vice President - Mainframe - Tech Lead Analyst - C13 - Pune - Hybrid

Job Description

At Citi we’re not just building technology, we’re building the future of banking.  Encompassing a broad range of specialties, roles, and cultures, our teams are creating innovations used across the globe.  Citi is constantly growing and progressing through our technology, with laser focused on evolving the ways of doing things.  As one of the world’s most global banks we’re changing how the world does business

We’re currently looking for a high caliber professional to join our team as Vice President, Mainframe developer - Hybrid (Internal Job Title: 24753257 Tech Lead Analyst - C13) based in Pune, India.  Being part of our team means that we’ll provide you with the resources to meet your unique needs, empower you to make healthy decision and manage your financial well-being to help plan for your future

Job Background/context:

The role forms part of GFT Product Processor Development Team in Pune and supports the Finance Accounting (FAS) application which helps Product Control & Finance Department.

FAS is a multi-currency, multi-firm system which maintains daily, period to date and life to date accounting totals on all finance trades. Included are Repo, Reverse Repo, Letter Repo Bank Loan, BuySellback and SellBuyback transactions. Provides end of day accounting reports for all legal entities to various end users worldwide and end of day reporting to determine the interest component of overall finance matchbook P&L. It utilizes user driven posting scheme logic to generate daily posting feeds of principal cash flow, interest income/expense and payments to General Ledger for selected firms. The application operates on mainframe

Global Benefits – Select 2-3:

• We provide programs and services for your physical and mental well-being including access to telehealth options, health advocates, confidential counseling and more. Coverage varies by country.
• We believe all parents deserve time to adjust to parenthood and bond with the newest members of their families. That’s why in early 2020 we began rolling out our expanded Paid Parental Leave Policy to include Citi employees around the world.
• We empower our employees to manage their financial well-being and help them plan for the future.

The primary purpose of this role is to work on the Leadership and development work for the Product Processor Technology area. This will involve working closely with the business and SMEs to prioritize business requests, manage the development workslate, provide estimate efforts, and ensure timely delivery on committed items and to project manage all aspects of software development according to the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).

The role requires the selected candidate to work and lead the development on the Mainframe technologies and at the same time support the systems in the transformation process

Key Responsibilities:

• Understanding Business Requirements and Functional Requirements provided by Business Analysts and to convert into Technical Design Documents and leading the development team to deliver on those requirements.
• Working with the Technical Team in Pune & US/UK supporting the development of the Accounting applications.
• Ensure projects Plans are created and PTS documentation is up to date.
• Work closely with Cross Functional Teams e.g. Business Analysis, Product Assurance, Platforms and Infrastructure, Business Office, Controls and Production Support. Prepare handover documents, manage SIT with oversight of UAT.
• Identify and proactively resolve issues that could impact system performance, reliability, and usability.
• Demonstrates an in-depth understanding of how the development function integrates within overall business/technology to achieve objectives; requires a good understanding of the industry.
• Work proactively & independently to address development requirements and articulate issues/challenges with enough lead time to address risks
• Ability to understand complex data problems, analyze and provide generic solutions compatible with existing Infrastructure.
• Design, Implement, Integrate and test new features.
• Owns success – Takes responsibility for successful delivery of the solutions. Mentoring other developers on their implementation as needed, and organize review activities like design review, code review and technical document review etc. to ensure successful delivery.
• Explore existing application systems, determines areas of complexity, potential risks to successful implementation.
• Contribute to continual improvement by suggesting improvements to software architectur