VP / Full Stack Java Engineering Lead

The team:

The Process Intelligence group within the Operations and Technology (O&T) organization designs solutions to enhance transparency, resiliency, efficiency, and competitiveness of our core business processes. This new organization has been established to leverage data science, genAI, and data analytics to drive Citi’s transformation by unlocking value from Citi’s enterprise architecture efforts.

The role:

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Full Stack Java Engineering Lead to join our team. The ideal candidate will have 8+ years of hands-on experience in Java, J2EE, nodejs,  Angular JS / Java Scripts, Spring boot, Oracle and PL/SQL, with a proven track record of delivering impactful insights and solutions in a corporate setting and be willing to take chances to drive innovation.

You will be joining us right at the beginning of our journey. As a senior member of the team, you will be actively coding, designing, and deploying the solution. As such, we need an innovative, opinionated, and creative leader who have previous real-world experience.

Responsibilities

• Support all products within functional area, from design to implementation and ongoing performance according to business need

• Provide technical leadership in the design of highly complex systems

• Develop and advocate for new solutions to undefined system needs, where no solution is available within the technical community

• Impact the engineering function by contributing to technical direction and strategic decisions

• Mentor junior team members and allocate work

• Exhibit knowledge of how own specialty area contributes to the business and apply knowledge of competitors, products and services

• 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.

Job Requirements:

• 6 to 8 years of relevant experience

• Front-end: JavaScript (ES6+), HTMLS5, CSS3, Angular (v13+)/React, Webpack, Node.js, etc.

• Back-end: Spring, Spring boot, Java (11+), J2EE, Hibernate, Neo4j/Cypher queries, Python, SQL

• Design patterns: Microservices, Docker, Kubernetes

• Experience with Spring Framework - Spring Boot, Microservices at the minimum

• Experience source code control tools and technologies

• Extensive experience in financial services organizations preferred

• Strong understanding of OOPS (Object Oriented Programming Standards) Concepts, Data Structures, and Algorithms

• Ability to write Clean Code using Core Java, JEE, Collections, and Multithreading

• Strong experience with API and Web Services development using REST/SOAP protocols

• Fundamental database concepts and experience with a relational database (SQL, PL/SQL) and/or NoSQL platforms

• Ability to write and optimize complex SQL queries

• Strong understanding of Standard, Enterprise Design Patterns, and SOLID principles

• Strong proficiency with Docker and Kubernetes

• Understanding of Containers and Docker deployment

• Experience with Swagger/Open API specification to define, document, implement and test APIs

• Firm understanding of Unit testing and test coverage

• Strong knowledge of testing frameworks like JUNIT, Cucumber, Jasmine/Mocha

• Experience in performance tuning applications and analyzing issues with tools like JProfiler, AppDynamics, etc.

• Experience in performing effective code and design reviews

• Experience in High-Speed Messaging platforms such as Apache Kafka or Solace PubSub

• Experience with CI/CD technologies and relating tools like Jenkins

• Neo4J cypher queries is a plus

Education:

Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience

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