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Job Overview 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 as well as conduct personnel duties for team (e.g. performance evaluations, hiring and disciplinary actions)

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.

Leadership

Excellent organization skills, attention to detail, and ability to multi‑task

Demonstrated sense of responsibility and capability to deliver quickly

Excellent communication skills. Clearly articulating and documenting technical and functional specifications is a key requirement.

Proactive problem‑solver

Relationship builder and team player

Negotiation, difficult conversation management and prioritization skills

Flexibility to handle multiple complex projects and changing priorities

Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills

Good analytical and business skills

Promotes teamwork and builds strong relationships within and across global teams

Promotes continuous process improvement especially in code quality, testability & reliability

Technical Proficiency





The Senior Technology Lead must be experienced hands‑on engineer who is passionate about solving business, customer, and technology problems through innovation and perseverance. Responsible for writing the most mission critical code, design and design reviews, code reviews, and process automation. Ensure on time, on budget, high quality deliveries by self and team. Understand and influence software design & architecture for simplicity, resiliency, and performance.

Strong Experience in systems design and development of software applications

Experience in Banking Payments Solution development and implementation in large banks.

Strong exposure to Java, Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Kafka, MQ, Micro‑Service , Oracle, Mongo, Openshift, REST, Maven, Git, JUnit, TDD, Agile, Strong knowledge on CI CD pipeline and exposure to system design with resiliency backed by observability.

Having Python skills and GEN AI tools knowledge is plus

Strong experience in working with various Payments schemes, and Payments messaging formats such as ISO 8583, ISO 20022, and SWIFT MX messages

Strong technical and functional experience in working in Banking domain under the payment space like Domestic (RTGS, GIRO, ACH etc.), International funds transfer, SWIFT/ISO20022 messaging, Currency Foreign Exchange, AML Monitoring, Sanction Screening etc

Experience and/or exposure to Digital Asset / Block chain domain is plus

Experience in managing and implementing successful projects

Leading a team of engineers and take the E2E responsibility of owning the delivery, by properly managing the Jira board at all the times

Proven experience of handling the Production Releases and the postproduction support

Be hands on the technologies and contribute to the Architecture, Design, Implementation and Pull Request reviews with a good quality ensuring the adequate coverage of Unit Test, Code Coverage , lesser or no code smells fostering a valuable refactoring, scalability, and maintainability.

Stakeholder management and ability to liaise well with the Engineering, QA and Product/Business throughout the SDLC lifecycle.

Groom the team on technical, functional and behavioral aspects where needed

Be proactive, assertive and a strategic thinker

Qualifications

6-10 years of relevant experience in Java & Microservices with commensurate people management experience.

Hands‑on working experience in Java / Spring / Spring Cloud / Spring Data JPA / Spring Boot Microservices.

Strong experience of Microservices, API Development and its Eco‑systems.

Strong experience on Observability and Monitoring tech stack as well

Messaging like Kafka and MQ components

Hands‑on working experience with Junit, Git, Jenkins, Maven.

Should have troubleshooting skills using debuggers, logs,



etc.

Experience with Openshift, AWS will be added advantage.

Implement Unit Testing and TDD to ensure software quality and maintainability.

Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.

Work proactively & independently to address project requirements, and articulate issues/challenges with enough lead time to address project delivery risks.

Code reviews, test case reviews, and ensure code developed meets the requirements.

Proficiency in SQL Databases, MongoDB, Oracle, Data Analysis. Experience as Applications Development Manager

Experience as senior level in an Applications Development role

Stakeholder and people management experience

Demonstrated leadership skills

Proven project management skills

Basic knowledge of industry practices and standards

Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication

Role Responsibilities

Design, implement, and deploy software components and solve difficult problems generating positive feedback.

Lead Payment modernization for the bank to develop and migrate payment applications on the modernized enterprise application platform.

Effectively coach, help and give feedback to junior team members.

Able to work independently and with team(s) to deliver software product successfully.

Lead deliveries that are consistently of high quality (secure, testable, maintainable, low‑defects, productive, etc.) and incorporate best practices.

Review design and code.

Focus on operational excellence, constructively identifying problems, identifying and building solutions, taking on projects that improve software, making it better and easier to maintain.

Make improvements to development and testing processes.

Education

Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience

Job Family Group Technology-

Job Family Applications Development-

Time Type Full time-

Primary Location Full Time Salary Range $120,800.00 - $170,800.00-

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 the company.

Importantly, all our hiring processes and decisions, including determining your suitability for a role, are conducted, checked, and decided by individuals. Our automated processing and AI do not involve relying on automatic or autonomous decision‑making. Please refer to any Jurisdictional Considerations, with specific provisions for your country (where relevant) for further details.

*This job opening is for an existing job vacancy.*

*the company is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law.*

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