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

Leadership Skills

- 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 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 robust knowledge on CI/CD pipeline with system design for resiliency backed by observability
- Python skills and GEN AI tools knowledge is a plus
- Strong experience in working with various Payments schemes, and Payments messaging formats such as ISO8583, ISO20022, and SWIFTMX messages
- 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
- Proven experience of handling the Production Releases and the post‑production support
- 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 wel

📌 Apps Development Sr Manager (Mississauga)
🏢 Citi
📍 Mississauga