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.

Manage one or more Applications Development teams in an effort to accomplish established goals as well as conduct personnel duties for the 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

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

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 supervising the activity of others and creating accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards

Clearly articulating and documenting technical and functional specifications is a key requirement

Negotiation, difficult conversation management and prioritization skills

Flexibility to handle multiple complex projects and changing priorities

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





Technical Proficiency The Senior Technology Lead must be an experienced hands‑on engineer 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

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, and strong knowledge on CI/CD pipeline with system design for resiliency backed by observability

Python skills and GEN AI tools knowledge is a plus

Strong technical and functional experience 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 / Blockchain domain is a plus

Experience in managing and implementing successful projects

Leading a team of engineers and taking end‑to‑end responsibility of owning the delivery, by properly managing the Jira board at all times

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

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

Solid experience of Microservices, API Development and its Ecosystems

Strong experience on Observability and Monitoring tech stack

Hands‑on working experience with JUnit, Git, Jenkins, Maven

Experience with OpenShift, AWS will be an added advantage

Implement Unit Testing and TDD to ensure software quality and maintainability

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

Proven project management skills

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

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, efficient, etc.) 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

Bachelor’s degree / University degree or equivalent experience

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📌 Apps Development Sr Manager - Vice President (Mississauga)
🏢 Citi
📍 Mississauga