Software Engineer Lead- VP

Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management.

As a bank with a brain and a soul, Citi creates economic value that is systemically responsible and in our clients’ best interests. Our technology solutions are the foundations of everything we do from keeping the bank safe, managing global resources, and providing the technical tools our workers need to be successful to designing our digital architecture and ensuring our platforms provide a first-class customer experience.

Our commitment to diversity includes a workforce that represents the clients we serve from all walks of life, backgrounds, and origins. We foster an environment where the best people want to work. We value and demand respect for others, promote individuals based on merit, and ensure opportunities for personal development are widely available to all. Ideal candidates are innovators with well-rounded backgrounds who bring their authentic selves to work and complement our culture of delivering results with pride. If you are a problem solver who seeks passion in your work, come join us. We’ll enable growth and progress together.

The Digital S/W Engineer Lead Analyst is a strategic professional who stays abreast of developments within own field and contributes to directional strategy by considering their application in own job and the business. Recognized technical authority for an area within the business. Requires basic commercial awareness. Developed communication and diplomacy skills are required in order to guide, influence and convince others, in particular colleagues in other areas and occasional external customers. Significant impact on the area through complex deliverables. Provides advice and counsel related to the technology or operations of the business. Work impacts an entire area, which eventually affects the overall performance and effectiveness of the sub-function/job family.

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for executing and driving results on large-scale efforts or multiple smaller efforts and serving as a development lead for most medium and large projects.
• Accountable for exhibiting a strong understanding of client core business functions.
• Required to support situations in which end user consultation is required to identify system function specifications and incorporate them into overall system design and delivery.
• Independent work style, requiring little or no guidance by more senior developers.
• Assist in the planning and managing of application development assignments generally involving large budgets, cross functional projects or multiple projects.
• Expected to effectively communicate those risks to the business owners.
• Accountable for providing guidance on architecturally significant efforts during the preplanning phase.
• Be part of the design review board that will focus on the design process.
• Publish design patterns across lines of business and domain commonalities.
• Participate in micro services and NGA code reviews.
• Empower SDEs and their teams by mentoring and coaching.
• Provide a long-term perspective for business and technology choices.
• Able to direct teams on how to develop and deliver systems that are efficient with resource usage.
• Responsible for broader design decisions and development of long-term strategies.
• Accountable for Design Reviews of Agile and Plan of Record (POR) projects.
• Drive clarity and work with complete independence as business and or technical strategy is not defined.
• Create plans that have a clear path to delivery.
• Accountable for Design Reviews for Citi Agile and POR projects.
• Communicate progress, anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, identify, assess, track and mitigate issues/risks.
• Demonstrate the ability to implement continuous improvement and the induction of new technology.
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made.

Qualifications:

• 6-10 years of relevant experience in an Apps Development role or senior level experience in an Enterprise Architecture role.
• Exhibit expertise in all aspects of technology by understanding broader patterns and techniques as they apply to Citi’s internal and external cloud platforms.
• Lead resources and serve as a functional SME across the company.
• Acquire relevant technology and financial industry skills.
• Demonstrate knowledge on automating code quality, code performance, unit testing, and build processing in the CI/CD.

Education:

• Bachelor’s/University degree, Master’s degree preferred.

Accountable for the Safety & Soundness of complex/critical Digital Applications. Support governance, compliance, remediation, and reporting of Safety and Soundness items. Responsible for managing Risk and Control Issues and Corrective Action Plans, and driving on time closure. Develop working knowledge of Citi Systems Delivery Standards, Information Security Standards, and Risk and Control policies. Must have excellent communication skills, and be comfortable communicating to all levels of the organization both in writing and verbally in person.

Job Family Group: Technology

Job Family: Digital Software Engineering

Time Type: Full time

Primary Location: Irving Texas United States

Primary Location Full Time Salary Range: $138,720.00 - $208,080.00

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 citibenefits.com.

Anticipated Posting Close Date: Apr 18, 2025

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