Java Tech Lead - Vice President

We are looking for experienced full-stack software engineers who are passionate about solving business problems through innovation and engineering practices. This role will be responsible for writing code, pairing with other developers as appropriate, decomposing acceptance criteria to understand team backlog deliverables, complexities, and risk, while working as a strong contributor on an agile team.

From a technical standpoint, the Software Engineer has full-stack coding and implementation responsibilities and adheres to best practice principles including modern cloud-based software development, agile and scrum, code quality, and tool usage. The Software Engineer works to understand and influence software architecture, while contributing to Citi’s and GFT’s technical user base.

Responsibilities

• Apply depth of knowledge and expertise to all aspects of the software development lifecycle, as well as partner continuously with stakeholders on a regular basis
• Develop and engineer solutions within an Agile software delivery team, working to collaboratively deliver sprint goals, write code, and participate in the broader Citi technical community and team-level Agile and Scrum processes.
• Contribute to the design, documentation, and development of world-class enterprise applications leveraging the latest technologies and software design patterns.
• Leverage technical knowledge of concepts and procedures within own area and basic knowledge of other areas to resolve issues, as necessary.
• Follow and contribute to defining technical and team standards.
• Collaborate technical leadership to achieve established goals, in line with our broader technical strategy.

Required Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience as a Software Engineer/ 5+ years of Development using Java
• Multiple years of experience with software engineering best practices (unit testing, automation, design patterns, peer review, etc.)
• Clear understanding of Data Structures and Object Oriented Principles using Java
• Multiple years of experience with Cloud-native development and Container Orchestration tools (Serverless, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, etc.).
• Multiple years of experience on Service Oriented and MicroServices architectures, including REST and GraphQL implementations
• Multiple years of experience with frameworks like Spring Boot
• Exposure to Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, either on-premise or public cloud (i.e., Tekton, Harness, CircleCI, Cloudbees Jenkins, etc.)
• Multiple years of experience with agile and iterative software delivery
• BA/BS degree or equivalent work experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to architecture experience in building horizontally scalable, highly available, highly resilient, and low latency applications
• Exposure to Cloud infrastructure both on-premise and public cloud (i.e., OpenShift, AWS, etc.)
• Exposure to event-driven design and architecture (i.e., Kafka, Spark Flink, etc.)
• Exposure to API Management tools
• Exposure to Infrastructure as Code tools (i.e., Terraform, Cloudformation, etc.)
• Exposure to Security, Observability, and Monitoring tools (i.e., Grafana Prometheus, Splunk, ELK, CloudWatch, etc.)
• Experience mentoring and providing technical leadership for teams of 5 or more developers

Exposure to database concepts (RDBMS, NoSQL) and web-based technologies (Angular/React) is a plus

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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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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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