Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. 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. This job opening will help Citi to build sophisticated solutions that will be targeting 100% digitalization and automation of the applications.
Overview of the Role:
The Software Engineer Manager will be responsible for building world class digital engagements for Citi. This person will be responsible for performing system designs, software architecture, handling technology deliveries and end-to-end development cycles; and leading, building and supporting the banking applications along with performing people management activities. The role requires a deep understanding of financial industry and products as well technology integration patterns. As a leader and integral part of a team, candidate is expected to have good analytical thinking, problem solving, good programming/technical fundamentals, eagerness to learn new technologies/concepts, and develop high-quality architecture solutions. Candidate must be open to accept challenges and suggestions.
Priorities include:
- Manage global technology teams, stakeholders, and various partners to identify and deliver technology needs and make recommendations to business decision-makers.
- Evaluate risk and controls issues, evaluate application adherence against it, and ensure strict compliance to the security of the applications.
- Manage the Citi’s technology infrastructure, including software, hardware, and procured products.
- Responsible for influencing innovation efforts and partnering on game changing new products and services that increase client engagement, reach and effectiveness in every market.
- Lead detailed technical discussions with seasoned developers and architects in building short- and long-term technology roadmaps for partnership programs in the applications.
- This leader will have deep technical understanding of modern computing practices and architectures.
- Own the delivery of products against this roadmap.
- Understanding of microservices architecture, including service discovery, API gateways, and inter-service communication.
- Build a culture of ownership within the technical and design teams to closely review and own experiences and push the partners to adopt the forward-looking designs
- Strong interaction with Business and tech teams. Represent department on key Senior Management forums at Regional and Global levels.
- Develop and implement best-in-class metrics monitoring and corrective actions to continually improve the deliveries.
- Establish and build global relationships and partnerships across business, technology and operational lines.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure program scope definition meets business objectives.
- Reduce time to market and cost to deliver through continuous process improvement/ simplification and empowered project management.
- Build and enforce strong financial governance and controls.
- Build employee engagement and retain staff to through empowerment, development and engaging experiences.
- This leader must be someone that can influence through others, deliver results, and earn trust quickly of the organization and stakeholders and someone that has a strong bias for action.
- Define and drive the talent strategy and manage internal talent pipeline while also building external networks to attract top-tier talent. Attract and develop talent to meet our client’s needs and ensure forward compatible success.
- Excellent communication (written and verbal), presentation (includes PowerPoint creations), and interpersonal skills.
Qualifications:
The ideal candidate will come from an international organization and be a global leader that brings deep technical knowhow along with the understanding of the financial landscape and business practices. Bachelor’s degree in computer science, or a related field; MS preferred.
- 10+ years’ experience in overall IT (Product development and Software Engineering).
- 5+ years’ experience managing large scale delivery of mobile, web, and cloud products.
- Experience shaping business strategy for technical products or services.
- Ability to grasp new technology concepts quickly and assist others in understanding them as well.
- Experienced technical contributor in large, global, distributed organizations, leading teams with staff located multiple time zones and supporting different business units with multiple priorities.
- Demonstrated ability to design, develop and implement complex solutions through initiatives across multiple technical domains including network, compute, storage, security, and distributed data.
- Drive transformational changes in the operations including lifecycle, process, people, and systemic automation to improve time to market, eliminate human intervention, and increase safety and soundness at these institutions.
- Thinks strategically but stays on top of tactical execution.
- Demonstrated analytical, critical thinking, and interpersonal skills.
- Highly detail-oriented, deadline-driven, and able to embrace change.
- Capacity to adapt to shifting goals and activities. Capacity to manage multiple activities in parallel.
- Self-starter with the ability to define goals and strategies with minimal management oversight.
- Has the innate ability to inspire passion in others, a proven leader.
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills; data driven and results-oriented.
This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.
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Job Family Group:
Technology
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Job Family:
Applications Development
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Time Type:
Full time
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