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Job Overview Role Summary Citi is seeking an experienced Application Development Lead to spearhead the architecture and delivery of intelligent, distributed systems at the heart of one of the world's premier financial institutions. In this role, you will lead an innovative engineering team within Citi Wealth Technology, driving strategic solutions across March Tech, AI driven personalization and Distributed Computing for our global wealth and private banking client base.
This role is structured as 20% technical leadership, team mentorship, and architectural governance, and 80% hands-on systems design, prototyping, and core development. You will guide engineering squads, elevate development standards, and own end-to-end architecture across complex platform.
Key Responsibilities Technical Leadership & Mentorship (30%)
- Engineering Direction & Governance: Provide technical direction and architectural oversight of an engineering squad within Wealth Technology, ensuring adherence to enterprise design principles, scalability standards, and engineering best practices.
- Team Mentoring & Talent Development: Coach and mentor junior to mid-level engineers, conducting high-impact code reviews, technical deep-dives, and career growth coaching.
- Modern AI Engineering Practices: Drive team adoption of modern developer productivity tools, including AI coding agents (such as GitHub Copilot and Devin), establishing frameworks for accelerated software delivery.
- Stakeholder Alignment & Solution Strategy: Partner with business leaders, product managers, and cross-functional teams to translate strategic business requirements into robust, forward-looking technical roadmaps using Jira, Confluence, and GitHub.
- Security & Quality Governance: Champion DevSecOps principles, embedding automated testing, code quality, and security scanning (via Checkmarx, Snyk, Black Duck) across all CI/CD pipelines.
Hands-On Architecture & Development (70%)
- Distributed & Event-Driven Systems: Architect high-throughput, fault-tolerant event streams and data pipelines utilizing Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, and modern distributed streaming patterns.
- API & Backend Service Engineering: Design and implement resilient, low-latency microservices and API gateways using FastAPI, Flask, or Spring Boot, backed by PostgreSQL and Redis.
- Cloud & Container Infrastructure: Deploy and manage resilient containerized applications on Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift, utilizing Helm charts, CI/CD automation (Jenkins, Tekton, Harness), and observability suites (Prometheus, Grafana, AppDynamics, Splunk).
- Embed security and code quality practices across the engineering lifecycle using tools such as Checkmarx, Snyk, and BlackDuck, ensuring all solutions meet enterprise security and compliance standards.
Required Qualifications & Skills - Experience: 12+ years of progressive software engineering and application development experience, including experience acting as a technical lead or senior engineer within an agile delivery team.
- Core Languages: Deep hands-on proficiency in Python and/or Java, with strong relational database design and complex querying skills in SQL.
- Distributed Systems & Messaging: Strong experience designing and consuming distributed event-driven systems using Apache Kafka or Apache Flink.
- Cloud-Native & Container Platforms: Proven track record building and deploying microservices on Kubernetes or Red Hat OpenShift, with cloud experience on AWS or Google Cloud Platform and container packaging using Helm.
- Data Architecture: Strong foundation in relational database management (e.g., PostgreSQL) and caching/in-memory data stores (e.g., Redis).
- CI/CD & DevSecOps: Working knowledge of automated CI/CD pipelines and security scanning tools (Checkmarx, Snyk, Black Duck).
- Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related quantitative discipline.
- Mindset: Strong problem-solving abilities, high ownership, commitment to code quality, and excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Beneficial Skills & Qualifications - AI Coding Tools: Experience leveraging developer productivity tools such as GitHub Copilot, Devin, or equivalent AI-assisted tools.
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Job Family Group: Technology
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Job Family: Applications Development
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Time Type: Full time
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Primary Location: New York New York United States
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Primary Location Full Time Salary Range: $142,320.00 - $213,480.00
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.
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Most Relevant Skills Please see the requirements listed above.
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Other Relevant Skills For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.
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Anticipated Posting Close Date: Oct 23, 2026
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