Microservices Application Development Tech Lead - Wealth Management Sector

Company: Citi
Location: Irving
Posted on: October 14, 2020

Job Description:

At Citi, we believe in using the power of modern engineering technologies and practices to improve peoples lives. Our mobile first banking strategy has helped us embrace change and leap frog traditional banking paradigms. Our Global Digital Technology organization relentlessly focuses on delivering leading financial capabilities for customers to ensure they seamlessly live their lives and engage in transactions that are safe, secure, and always on for them. At Citi, we believe in the bank of tomorrow and are delivering capabilities that keep pace with the market, technology innovation, and customer demand.

We are embarking on a vision to make it easy for people everywhere to understand that the ability to reach their dreams and build a secure financial position is accessible to them. We will help customers do this one step at a time by guiding them through the process via robotic automation and artificial intelligence that seeks to understand each persons individual and unique risk appetite. We will help our customers build and optimize their Wealth Management portfolios and gain freedom knowing that they can be financially strong and hopeful for their future. Citi is reimagining our Wealth Management technical domain by building best of breed applications to empower consumers in their wealth journey.

We want you to help. We are searching the kind of person who is excited by building solutions that improve the lives of others thru the latest technology. Are you technical and have deep Wealth Management domain experience? Are you passionate about helping those around you be more effective? Do you think about technology as a way to increase efficiency and change how business operates? Do you want to work with biometrics and voice authentication? Are you interested in delivering incredibly safe and secure solutions and using secrets management? Do you like to provide elegant simplicity across multiple devices?

Responsibilities:

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• Accountable for executing and driving results on large-scale efforts or multiple smaller efforts and serving as a development lead for most medium and large projects. This includes expertise with application development methodologies and standards for program analysis, design, coding, testing, debugging and implementation.
• Accountable for exhibiting a strong understanding of client core business functions.
• Required to support situations in which end user consultation is required to identify system function specifications and incorporate them into overall system design and delivery. Additionally, utilize comprehensive knowledge of multiple areas within technology to achieve technological objectives.
• Independent work style, requiring little or no guidance by more senior developers. Decisions will make a significant, measurable impact on the business goals for the client organization. During team discussions you will play a significant role with TPMs and engineering managers to determine potential risks to a schedule.
• Assist in the planning and managing of application development assignments generally involving large budgets, cross functional projects or multiple projects. This includes effectively understanding and analyzing both technical and business risks and impact.
• Expected to effectively communicate those risks to the business owners, so that they can make informed decisions.
• Accountable for providing guidance on architecturally significant efforts during the preplanning phase, and ensuring principles and best practices are followed prior to initiation of work. In doing so, closely watch and evaluate Digital roadmaps, including impacts to support upcoming journeys.
• Publish design review extensions, and provide documented guidance aligned to sprint plans and timelines.
• Be part of the design review board that will focus on the design process, search for generic patterns, and, at the same time, share best practices across the organization.
• Publish design patterns across lines of business and domain commonalities. Drive design reviews for Next Gen Architecture (NGA) and Plan of Record (POR) projects, supporting design principles and best practices.
• Participate in micro services and NGA code reviews.
• Empower SDEs and their teams by mentoring and coaching.
• Have a comprehensive understanding of the business domain, the systems, and the products in your space. Understand their accountabilities, boundaries, limitations, scale factors and the reasons behind architectural decisions.
• Provide a long-term perspective for business and technology choices; using technical judgment to vet architecture as required.
• Able to direct teams on how to develop and deliver systems that are efficient with resource usage such as hardware, runtime, performance, load, and memory requirements.
• Responsible for broader design decisions and development of long-term strategies that significantly influence the development process and standards.
• Accountable for Design Reviews of Agile and Plan of Record (POR) projects as well as accountable for Code Reviews of Next Gen Architecture (NGA) projects and are expected to elaborate, promote and communicate Design Patterns applicable to NGA architectures and solutions.
• Accountable for providing architectural guidance to the SDEs based on best practices and in alignment with CTO guidelines and platform.
• Drive clarity and work with complete independence as business and or technical strategy is not defined.
• Provide the corresponding architectural guidance, and conduct design reviews and code reviews based on the projects assigned to your LOB. The product definition and technical planning is out of scope.
• Accountable for the overall strategy and for driving the teams inside and outside of your organization to deliver expected results. Drive mindful discussion with business and technical stakeholders that lead to timely decisions. Participate in discussions to drive smart trade-off decisions that balance efforts, delivery timelines, features, and technical constraints. Identify and remove blockers and always find the path forward in challenging situations.
• Create plans that have a clear path to delivery. Solve for dependencies between agile and waterfall delivery efforts. Help your teams organize for delivery while maximizing resources for the greater good of the Digital organization. Understand engineering best practices and apply best practices to the software development lifecycle (SDLC)
• Accountable for Design Reviews for Citi Agile and POR projects as well as Code Reviews for the NGA projects. Accountable for providing architectural guidance to the SDEs based on best practices and in alignment with CTO guidelines and platform. Elaborate, promote and communicate Design Patterns applicable to NGA architectures and solutions.
• Elaborate, bring and communicate clear metrics on Design Reviews, Code Reviews, CI/CD and Design Patterns adoption.
• Communicate progress, anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, identify, assess, track and mitigate issues/risks at multiple levels. Recognize discordant views and take part in constructive dialog to resolve them.
• Demonstrate the ability to implement continuous improvement and the induction of new technology. Demonstrate examples of influence in scrum teams beyond your own area of focus.
• 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.
  
  Qualifications:
  
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  • Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related field and 10+ years commercial Java & Spring Boot hands on development experience
  • Strong fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures, algorithms, problem solving, and complexity analysis
  • Investment/Wealth domain experience a MUST
  • Experience with distributed systems, caching and persistence solutions
    
    Ability to troubleshoot and identify the root cause of issues under time constraints
  • Ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions
  • Excellent interpersonal communication with strong verbal / written skills
  • Demonstrated skill and passion for operational excellence
  • Customer focused mindset, taking pride in creating and owning an informative data-driven journey
  • Exhibit expertise in all aspects of technology by understanding broader patterns and techniques as they apply to Citis internal and external cloud platforms (AWS, PCF, Akamai)
  • Demonstrate knowledge on automating code quality, code performance, unit testing, and build processing in the CI/CD.
  • Developer with Test Driven Development TDD and Behavior Driven Development BDD experience is must
    
    Education:
    
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    • Bachelors/University degree, Masters degree preferred
      
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