Senior Development Manager-Java Microservices-Lending

The Applications Development Group 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:

• Own the detailed technology architecture, and delivery for large-scale wealth-lending platforms spanning securities-based lending, structured credit, mortgages, and bespoke lending products.
• Set the technical and architectural north star while remaining hands-on with critical designs, complex problem solving, code reviews, and high-impact delivery decisions.
• Apply exceptional analytical thinking and fluid intelligence to solve highly ambiguous, multi-dimensional business, risk, and regulatory problems with scalable technology solutions.
• Translate complex wealth-lending, collateral management, risk, capital, and regulatory requirements into resilient, extensible, and future-proof platform architectures.
• Lead and scale a large, globally distributed engineering organization, driving clear accountability, strong execution discipline, and a culture of engineering excellence.
• Partner as a trusted technology advisor to senior business, risk, operations, and compliance leaders, influencing product strategy and operating model decisions.
• Drive multi-year platform modernization initiatives, including system consolidation, cloud adoption, API-first and event-driven architectures, and automation of manual lending workflows.
• Balance near-term delivery commitments with long-term platform sustainability, ensuring technical debt, resiliency, and scalability are actively managed.
• Establish and govern engineering standards across security, resiliency, performance, data quality, and regulatory compliance in a highly controlled environment.
• Manage multiple teams of professionals to accomplish established goals and conduct personnel duties for team (e.g. performance evaluations, hiring and disciplinary actions)
• Provide strategic influence and exercise control over resources, budget management and planning while monitoring end results
• Utilize in-depth knowledge of concepts and procedures within own area and basic knowledge of other areas to resolve issues
• Ensure essential procedures are followed and contribute to defining standards
• Integrate in-depth knowledge of applications development with overall technology function to achieve established goals
• Provide evaluative judgement based on analysis of facts in complicated, unique, and dynamic situations including drawing from internal and external sources
• Influence and negotiate with senior leaders across functions, as well as communicate with external parties as 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.

Qualifications:

Skills

• 13+ years progressive design & development experience, including 5-7 years in technical or architectural leadership roles. Proven ability to define strategy and drive engineering excellence.
• Expertise in Java, J2EE, Spring, Spring Boot, Angular, and Microservices for large-scale application development.
• Proficiency in event-driven systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ) and distributed messaging patterns.
• Strong experience building REST APIs (Swagger/OpenAPI), microservices, and SOAP integrations.
• Solid understanding of RDBMS (SQL, PL/SQL) with knowledge in NoSQL databases (e.g., Cassandra, MongoDB, DynamoDB).
• Expertise in CI/CD pipeline development (e.g., Tecton, Harness, Lightspeed, OpenShift) for automated, single-click deployments.
• Deep knowledge of security mechanisms: OAuth2, token-based security, and API security best practices.
• Prior experience with legacy systems (WebSphere, JSP/Servlets, EJB) and leading application modernization efforts to cloud-native architectures.
• Extensive cloud-native development experience on major public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), including serverless and managed services.
• Proven ability to design highly scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant distributed systems.
• Demonstrated track record of building, mentoring, and leading high-performing engineering teams.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills to influence technical strategy.
• Hands-on work experience with advanced AI software engineering tools like Devin.AI or similar autonomous AI software agents.

Education:

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

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