Applications Development Senior Manager

Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Our core activities are safeguarding assets, lending money, making payments and accessing the capital markets on behalf of our clients.

Citi’s Mission and Value Proposition explain what we do and Strategy explain how we do it. Our mission is to serve as a trusted partner to our clients by responsibly providing financial services that enable growth and economic progress. We strive to earn and maintain our clients’ and the public’s trust by constantly adhering to the highest ethical standards and making a positive impact on the communities we serve.

The Applications Development Senior Manager is 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

• 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+ year's experience using tools for statistical modeling of large data sets

• Proficient in two or more programming languages such as Python, Bash shell scripting, and SQL.

• Multiple years of experience with software engineering best practices (unit testing, automation, design patterns, peer review, etc.) 

• Clear understanding of Data Structures and Object-Oriented Principles.

• Multiple years of experience supporting horizontally scalable, highly available, highly resilient, and low latency applications

• Multiple years of experience with Cloud-native development and Container Orchestration tools (Serverless, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, etc.). 

• Experience of building solutions in the public cloud (AWS, Google Cloud) 

• Experience of distributed data platforms such as Kafka, S3, Cassandra etc. 

• Experience of NFS, Isilon, Power flex and management is an added advantage.

• Understanding of SAS Viya 4 and SAS model.

• Experience of driving and/or influencing the data strategy of your team or organization  and providing technical vision and guidance to your team.

• Thrives in a dynamic environment, capable of managing multiple tasks simultaneously while maintaining a high standard of work.

• Stakeholder and people management experience

• Demonstrated leadership skills

• Proven project management skills

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience

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