Lead Software Engineer, Full Stack, Assistant Vice President

Job Description

Markets Operations Technology is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Lead Software Engineer to design, architect, and deliver a high-performance Enterprise Fee Calculation and Billing Platform. This mission-critical application supports front-to-back office stakeholders across Equities, Options, and Multi-Asset Securities, optimizing transactional expenses and exchange fees.

Responsibilities:

Core Java & Multi-Threading: Expert proficiency in Core Java (8/11/17+), JVM tuning, concurrency utilities, memory management, and asynchronous programming.

Microservices & Enterprise Frameworks: Extensive experience with Spring Framework (Spring Boot, Spring Cloud) and ORM/Persistence frameworks (Hibernate/JPA).

DevOps & CI/CD: Hands-on expertise in practices and pipeline configuration (Jenkins/Tekton/GitLab CI), build automation (Maven/Gradle).

Messaging & Event-Driven Systems: Strong experience with Solace, JMS, RabbitMQ, or Kafka.

Database & SQL: Strong proficiency in Relational Database Management Systems (Oracle/PostgreSQL), PL/SQL, query optimization, indexing, and data modeling.

Web & UI Frameworks: Familiarity with Angular, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML5/CSS.

Scripting & Schedulers: Solid experience with Unix/Linux shell scripting and enterprise workload schedulers (Autosys).

Security Standards: Understanding of enterprise security protocols, SSL/TLS handshake mechanisms, PKI certificate management.

Preferred Domain Knowledge & Competencies

Capital Markets Domain: Strong functional knowledge of Equities, Equity Derivatives (Options), Fixed Income, or FX trade lifecycles.

Regulatory Compliance: Understanding of reporting requirements, financial audit trails, and banking risk frameworks.

Analytical & Problem-Solving Skills: Exceptional diagnostic abilities for distributed microservice architectures.

Communication & Collaboration: Excellent verbal and written skills to bridge technical and business domains.

Recommended Qualifications:

• •5-8 years of relevant experience
• •Experience in systems analysis and programming of software applications
• •Experience in managing and implementing successful projects
• •Working knowledge of consulting/project management techniques/methods
• •Ability to work under pressure and manage deadlines or unexpected changes in expectations or requirements

Education:

Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

• •Conduct tasks related to feasibility studies, time and cost estimates, IT planning, risk technology, applications development, model development, and establish and implement new or revised applications systems and programs to meet specific business needs or user areas
• •Monitor and control all phases of development process and analysis, design, construction, testing, and implementation as well as provide user and operational support on applications to business users
• •Utilize in-depth specialty knowledge of applications development to analyze complex problems/issues, provide evaluation of business process, system process, and industry standards, and make evaluative judgement
• •Recommend and develop security measures in post implementation analysis of business usage to ensure successful system design and functionality
• •Serve as advisor or coach to new or lower level analysts
• •Has the ability to operate with a limited level of direct supervision.
• •Ability to work under pressure and manage deadlines or unexpected changes in expectations or requirements
• •Act as SME to senior stakeholders and /or other team members.
• •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.

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Job Family Group:

Technology ------------------------------------------------------

Job Family:

Applications Development ------------------------------------------------------

Time Type:

Full time ------------------------------------------------------

Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:

$94,300.00 - $141,500.00 ------------------------------------------------------

Most Relevant Skills

Please see the requirements listed above. ------------------------------------------------------

Other Relevant Skills

For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter. ------------------------------------------------------

Automated Processing and AI

We use automated processing, including artificial intelligence, for our legitimate business interests (or our reasonable and appropriate business purposes) to identify and align the candidate's skills and abilities with a specific job opening. Additionally, if you so choose, or consent, we can match your skills and abilities to other suitable roles at Citi.

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This job opening is for an existing job vacancy.

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