About Citi: 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. As a financial institution that touches every region of the world and every sector that shapes your daily life, our Operations & Technology teams are charged with a mission that rivals any large tech company. 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. We reimagine client and partner experiences to deliver excellence through secure, reliable, and efficient services.
Citi's Functions Technology is responsible for delivering Technology solutions to Citi's Functions organizations. Functions Technology mission is to optimize Citi's Technology environment by delivering world class applications, driving standardization of the production environment, reducing complexity, optimizing management of systems supporting global functions such as Compliance, Controls, Internal Audit and Risk, and introducing innovative technologies that provide new business capabilities, reduce the technology total cost of ownership, and create a competitive advantage for Citi.
Job overview: The Applications Development Senior Manager is responsible for accomplishing results through the management of a team in an effort to establish and implement new or revised web application systems and programs in coordination with the Technology team. The overall objective of this role is to drive the whole software development life cycle including systems analysis, design and programming activities.
Responsibilities: - Manage one or more Applications Development teams in an effort to accomplish established goals as well as conduct personnel duties for team (e.g. performance evaluations, hiring and disciplinary actions)
- Utilize in-depth knowledge and skills across multiple Applications Development areas to provide technical oversight across systems and applications
- Review and analyze proposed technical solutions for projects
- Contribute to formulation of strategies for applications development and other functional areas
- Develop comprehensive knowledge of how areas of business integrate to accomplish business goals
- Impact the Applications Development area through monitoring delivery of end results, participate in budget management, and handling day-to-day staff management issues, including resource management and allocation of work within the team/project
- 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.
- Provide hands-on guidance and technical leadership to development teams, including code and design reviews about design, develop, and maintain Java web applications using Spring Boot within a microservices architecture
- Engage in the full software development lifecycle (SDLC), including planning, development, testing, and deployment, with a focus on cloud-based environments like OpenShift, ensuring adherence to best practices in CI/CD pipelines with an SDLC framework
- Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams in a distributed, global environment to deliver projects aligned with strategic business objectives
- Manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced setting, rapidly adapting to changes in business requirements and technology landscapes
Qualifications: - 6+ years of professional experience building Java-based (Java 6+) web applications
- 3+ years of experience leading application development team.
- Strong proficiency in core Java including OOP principles, Collections, Multi-threading & Concurrency, Streams, Lambda.
- Solid understanding with containerization and microservices architecture(Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift)
- Excellent knowledge and Work experience in Spring Framework such as Spring Boot, Spring Data, etc.
- Strong knowledge and work experience in ORM framework like JPA/Hibernate.
- Solid understanding of Messaging Middleware (Kafka, etc.)
- Familiarity of distributed cache (Redis, etc.)
- Knowledge of DevOps tools such as Jenkins, Git/Bitbucket, Harness, etc. for automation and efficient management of the software development lifecycle
- Understanding of the domain driven design (DDD) software design approach
- Experience in writing unit testing using Junit and Mockito
- Demonstrable experience in writing clean, reusable, testable code.
- Demonstrable understanding and experience of engineering best practices: design patterns, coding standard, code review, unit testing.
- Experience with relational database like Oracle
Education: - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
Job Family Group: Technology
Job Family: Applications Development
Time Type: Full time
Primary Location: Tampa Florida United States
Primary Location Full Time Salary Range: $113,840.00 - $170,760.00
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. Available offerings may vary by jurisdiction, job level, and date of hire.
Most Relevant Skills Please see the requirements listed above.
Other Relevant Skills For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.
Anticipated Posting Close Date: Jan 22, 2026
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