Senior Java Engineering Lead

The Applications Development Technology Senior Lead Analyst is a senior level position responsible for establishing and implementing new or revised application systems and programs in coordination with the Technology Team. The overall objective of this role is to lead applications systems analysis and programming activities.

Responsibilities:

• Lead multiple teams of engineers to accomplish established delivery goals and conduct personnel duties for team (e.g. performance evaluations, hiring and disciplinary actions)
• Provide strategic influence and technical leadership for the team 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.

Required Qualifications

• 10 + years of relevant experience in providing technical solutions and architectures for complex business problems, identifying the benefits and risks of the solutions, and providing customer-centric design recommendations
• Strong background leading and mentoring development teams towards a common set of strategic goals
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
• Strong understanding of microservices architecture, Restful APIs, and distributed systems
• Multiple years of experience with frameworks like Spring Boot.
• Exposure to Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, either on-premise or public cloud (i.e., Tekton, Harness, CircleCI, Cloudbees Jenkins, etc.)
• Relevant architecture experience in building horizontally scalable, highly available, highly resilient, and low latency applications.
• Experience with Cloud infrastructure both on-premise and public cloud (i.e., OpenShift, AWS, etc.)
• Experience with event-driven design and architecture (i.e., Kafka, Spark Flink, etc.)
• Angular experience is a plus
• Multiple years of experience with Cloud-native development and Container Orchestration tools (Serverless, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, etc.).
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and frameworks (e.g., Scrum, SAFe) and working in Agile teams.
• Experience managing multi-location teams
• Experience working in a diverse/multiple stakeholder environment
• Experience with Atlassian tools (Jira Software, Confluence)
• Experience with data integration practices

Education:

• Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience

Job Family Group:
Technology

Job Family:
Applications Development

Time Type:
Full time

Primary Location:
Tampa Florida United States

Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:
$141, $212,160.00

In addition to salary, Citi's offerings may also include, for eligible employees, discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards. Citi offers competitive employee benefits, including: medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs. Citi also offers paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays. For additional information regarding Citi employee benefits, please visit Available offerings may vary by jurisdiction, job level, and date of hire.

Most Relevant Skills
Please see the requirements listed above.

Other Relevant Skills
CI/CD, Java Enterprise Edition, Microservices Architecture, Oracle, RESTful APIs, Spring Boot.

Anticipated Posting Close Date:
Jul 02, 2025

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