Citi

Direct brings together Citi's global products and services into a single digital platform, providing clients a gateway to manage global cash, liquidity, and trade operations.

Citi

Direct supports transactions across 160+ countries touching 140+ currencies.

Citi

Direct process trillions in transactions daily facilitating seamless flow of digital capital.

Citi

Direct is seeking a Canada site lead and experienced senior developer to directly oversee a small team, partner with global dev teams to drive large programs of work, and ensure technical excellence from the team.

The ideal candidate will be a hands-on developer with strong leadership skills and the ability to build talent within the organization.

The role will be focused on modernizing Citi

Direct's Payment flow, with a focus on the validation layer for payments.

This is an opportunity to drive change from the ground up, as well as experiment with AI tooling to not only update the stack, but also enhance you and your team's skillset.
**Key Responsibilities:**
Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a small local development team
Actively participate in coding and problem-solving, maintaining a strong hands-on presence in development
Architect and design scalable, robust solutions for complex technical challenges
Lead the planning and execution of major development initiatives and projects
Oversee code quality, conduct code reviews, and enforce best practices and coding standards
Drive the adoption of new technologies and methodologies to improve team productivity and product quality
Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to define technical strategy and roadmap
Manage technical debt and guide system optimizations
Foster a culture of innovation, continuous learning, and knowledge sharing within the team
Drive morale and be the local contact point for Canada based team members
**Required Qualifications:**
10+ years of software development experience, including
3+ years in a leadership role leading engineers
Strong hands-on coding skills in Java (Backend development)




Extensive experience with microservices architecture, Spring Framework, and RESTful API design
Proficiency in MongoDB and Oracle databases
Experience with Apache Kafka and event-driven architectures
Strong understanding of software design patterns, architecture principles, and best practices
Understanding of security best practices in software development
Proven track record of leading successful software projects and mentoring developers
Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to navigate complex technical challenges
Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
**Preferred Qualifications:**
Experience with cloud platforms
Knowledge of Dev

Ops practices and CI/CD pipelines
Familiarity with Agile methodologies and project management tools
Experience with performance optimization and scalability of large-scale applications
Solid understanding of payments industry, including various payment systems and processes
**Education:**
Bachelors degree or equivalent work experience
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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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**Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:**
$145,100.00 - $217,700.00
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**Most Relevant Skills**
Please see the requirements listed above.
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**Other Relevant Skills**




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

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.
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_This job opening is for an existing job vacancy._
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📌 Senior Java Lead Application Development Manager - Senior Vice President (Mississauga)
🏢 Citigroup
📍 Mississauga