Application Development Lead - Vice President

**Key Responsibilities** **1\. Strategic Technology Roadmap & Architecture** * **Define and Execute Vision:** Establish and drive the strategic technology architecture roadmap for the Client Financials portfolio, ensuring alignment with long-term business outcomes. * **Technical Direction:** Provide strategic direction and critical input into key technology decisions to ensure a scalable, robust, and future-proof buildout. * **Solution Design:** Demonstrate deep technical acumen to collaborate with and direct a strong engineering team in making critical architectural and design decisions. **2\. Cloud Transformation & Data Engineering** * **Cloud-Native Engineering:** Lead the design, development, and scaling of enterprise-grade, cloud-native data services on AWS. * **Databricks & Spark Migration:** Drive the migration of legacy data platforms to Databricks, delivering high-performance Spark and PySpark solutions. * **Platform Optimization:** Optimize system performance, capacity, and infrastructure efficiency to support data-heavy, high-throughput applications. * **AI-Enabled Analytics:** Deliver AI-enabled operational and analytics platforms to unlock advanced insights and predictive capabilities. **3\. Stakeholder Management & Business Alignment** * **Methodology Representation:** Present and represent the firm's client returns methodology to senior stakeholders across diverse business and technology teams, including Markets, Finance, Risk, Banking, Performance Management, and ICM. * **Impact Analysis:** Clearly articulate and present the technology platform's impacts on revenue, expense, GSIB (Global Systemically Important Banks), and tax calculations. * **Relationship Building:** Foster strong, collaborative partnerships with senior business and technology leaders to align engineering delivery with business priorities. **4\. Engineering Leadership & Agile Delivery** * **End-to-End Accountability:** Take full and direct accountability for the solution delivery lifecycle of the Client Financials portfolio. * **Team Leadership:** Lead, mentor, and scale a high-performing team of expert data and software engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, quality, and velocity. * **Agile Execution:** Drive agile execution across multiple complex data engines, calculation engines, and multi-dimensional analytics platforms. **Qualifications & Experience** **Experience & Leadership** * **10+years of Proven Experience:** Extensive background in software engineering and applications development, with a proven track record of owning and delivering large-scale application portfolios for complex business functions. * **Enterprise Scale:** Demonstrated success in building, scaling, and optimizing enterprise data services and driving large-scale cloud transformation initiatives. * **Strategic Influence:** Proven ability to influence technology strategy and build strong relationships with senior business and technology partners. **Technical Expertise** This individual possesses a robust technical background with deep expertise in cloud-native, Big Data, and analytics platforms, essential for driving complex financial solutions. * **Cloud & Big Data Platforms:** Deep expertise in AWS cloud-native architecture, coupled with strong hands-on and architectural experience in Databricks, Apache Spark, and PySpark. Proficient in the entire Hadoop ecosystem (HDFS, Hive, Sqoop) for Big Data environments. * **Database & Analytics:** Solid exposure to SQL Server and Oracle databases, with strong skills in query writing for data validation and manipulation. Proven experience in building high-performance calculation engines and multi-dimensional analytics platforms, including complex calculations. * **Tools & Practices:** Skilled with Git for version control; experienced with JIRA and Confluence for project management. Familiarity with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines is also present. * **Reporting & Emerging Tech:** Some exposure to Tableau for BI reporting. Familiarity with AI/ML-enabled operational and analytics platforms is highly desirable. **Communication & Domain Knowledge** * **Executive Communication:** Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex technical architectures and financial methodologies (e.g., revenue, expense, GSIB, tax) to senior executives. * **Financial Domain:** Strong understanding of financial business technology, risk management, performance management, or capital markets is highly preferred. **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. \------------------------------------------------------ **Job Family Group:** --------------------- Technology \------------------------------------------------------ **Job Family:** --------------- Applications Development \------------------------------------------------------ **Time Type:** -------------- Full time \------------------------------------------------------ **Most Relevant Skills** ------------------------ Please see the requirements listed above. \------------------------------------------------------ **Other Relevant Skills** ------------------------- For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter. \------------------------------------------------------ _Citi is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law._ _If you are a person with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to use our search tools and/or apply for a career opportunity review_ _[Accessibility at Citi](https://www.citigroup.com/citi/accessibility/application-accessibility.htm)._ _View Citi’s [EEO Policy Statement](https://www.citigroup.com/global/eeo-aa-policy) and the [Know Your Rights](https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf) poster._