Senior Java Development Lead - Vice President

Senior Java Development Lead - Vice President

Discover your future at Citi. Working at Citi is far more than just a job. A career with us means joining a team of more than 230,000 dedicated people from around the globe. At Citi, you'll have the opportunity to grow your career, give back to your community and make a real impact.

Job Overview

The Java Development Lead is a senior level position responsible for designing, developing, and optimizing high-performance Java based applications that support critical financial operations in the Capital Markets domain. The ideal candidate will have a deep hands-on experience in Java, object-oriented programming, microservice architecture, software design patterns coupled with a proven track record of delivering complex projects.

Responsibilities:

• This is a hands-on senior developer role requiring ability to independently code and deliver complex functionalities in Java, Spring Boot, micro-services in partnership with the team.
• Resolve variety of high impact problems/projects through in-depth evaluation of complex business processes, system processes, and industry standards
• Participate in initiatives within team to build solutions or enhance existing functionalities around configurable and extensible solutions
• Participate in CI/CD initiatives driving automation of manual steps and speed up build and deployment process in partnership with DevOps team.
• Develop comprehensive knowledge of how areas of business, such as architecture and infrastructure, integrate to accomplish business goals

Required Skills:

• 6-10 years of recent experience with design and development of enterprise scalable applications using Java/J2EE, Spring Framework and related technologies.
• Hands on experience with relational database like Oracle, performance tuning and integration with Java application.
• Strong experience using microservices architecture, including service discovery, API gateways, REST and inter-service communication.
• Proficient in functional programming concepts with Streams API, Lambda Expressions and Optional.
• Experience for building asynchronous, event/message-driven systems in microservices using Apache Kafka for real time streaming and event driven architecture.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage deadlines or unexpected changes in expectations or requirement
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication

Preferred Skills:

• Experience using CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Kubernetes etc.
• Experience in Agile, Scrum Development environment
• Knowledge and experience in TDD, BDD and modern testing frameworks like Cypress and Cucumber
• Experience with observability and visualization tools like AppDynamics and Grafana

Education:

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