Apps Development Sr Manager

The Applications Development Senior Manager is a senior management level position 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.

Recommended Qualifications:

• 6-10 years of relevant experience in the Financial Service industry
• 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

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
• Master’s degree preferred

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

Responsibilities:

• Lead Application Development: Design, develop, and implement high-quality, scalable Java and Spring Boot solutions.
• Ensure Code Quality: Perform comprehensive unit, integration, and performance testing. Conduct thorough peer code reviews.
• Architect & Design: Contribute to architecture, design and development of application components with minimal assistance. Be able to straddle between traditional Java/J2EE/RDBMS stacks to micro services based Next gen stack.
• Data Management: Utilize RDBMS (SQL, PL/SQL) expertise and NoSQL database familiarity.
• Champion the use of AI assisted development tools and authentication frameworks to improve developer productivity, code quality, testing & documentation across engineering team.
• Technical Mentorship: Serve as an SME to stakeholders and mentor junior developers. Evaluate and adopt new tools and approaches to improve delivery.
• Collaboration & Execution: Work effectively with global development teams to deliver business solutions.
• Risk Management: Appropriately assess and manage risk in technical decisions, ensuring compliance with firm policies and regulations.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of relevant experience in enterprise application development.
• Proven experience in a lead developer or technical lead role.
• Strong hands-on expertise with Java, J2EE, Spring, Spring Boot.
• Good understanding of the lending domain.
• Solid understanding of RDBMS (SQL, PL/SQL) and familiarity with NoSQL databases; caching (Redis) experience a plus.
• Extensive hands-on experience with Java, J2EE (including WebSphere, JSP/Servlets, EJB), Spring, Spring Boot, JPA/Hibernate, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and leading application modernization to modern Java/Spring microservices.
• Demonstrated leadership, project management, and communication skills.
• Hands-on experience with advanced AI software engineering tools (e.g., Devin.AI, Copilot).
• Knowledge of building microservices, REST APIs (Swagger/OpenAPI), and SOAP integrations.

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