Senior Technical Architect

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Job Overview

Application / Team Overview:

Citibank® Commercial Cards offers card-based payment solutions to large corporations and federal and state governments for the procurement of goods and services as well as travel, entertainment, and fleet related expenses. Commercial Cards' strategic objective is to compete and differentiate on the basis of global capability and customized solutions for high-value customers.

Technical / Functional Proficiency:

-          Responsible for providing technical leadership of multiple large scale/complex global software solutions

-          Strong understanding of object oriented analysis and design, design patterns, high availability and concurrent programming

-          Strong understanding on Agile projects and Agile ceremonies.

-          Demonstrated excellent software development skills. Strong experiences in implementation of the following technologies: Java, J2EE, Spring framework, AI Tools usage, Angular, React.

-          Experience in building enterprise transaction-based system with focus on recovery, stability, reliability, scalability and performance.

- Deep understanding of and extensive experience in developing microservices/APIs using Spring Boot

- Solid understanding and experience of integrating Web Services

- Strong experience in JPA

-          Should have knowledge on Containerization

-          Experience in using the tools for service registry and service discovery (like Eureka, API-Gateway etc)

-          Experience in using the tools for log visualization

-          Hands on experience on Test Driven Development (Junit/Mockito/ etc)

-          Should have experience in application security

-          Should have experience in designing complex application in micro services platform.

-          Experience in building multithreaded applications and troubleshooting complex issues related to it.

-          Experience in working on JMS / MQ applications.

-          Experience in working multiple OS (Unix, Linux, Win)

-          Experience developing SOA and writing/consuming web services

-          Experience developing solutions involving ETL any Big Data concepts

-          Experience in performance tuning of large technical solutions with significant volumes

-          Experience with UI/web programming languages (such as JavaScript, JSP, Angular)

-          Strong Database experience (DB2/Oracle/SQL)

-          Understanding of internetworking concepts, firewall, communication protocols is a plus

-          Experience in using Open Source technology

-          Knowledge of Web security framework

Responsibilities:

• Utilize knowledge of applications development procedures and concepts, and basic knowledge of other technical areas to identify and define necessary system enhancements, including using script tools and analyzing/interpreting code
• Consult with users, clients, and other technology groups on issues, and recommend programming solutions, install, and support customer exposure systems
• Apply fundamental knowledge of programming languages for design specifications.
• Analyze applications to identify vulnerabilities and security issues, as well as conduct testing and debugging
• Serve as advisor or coach to new or lower level analysts
• Identify problems, analyze information, and make evaluative judgements to recommend and implement solutions
• Resolve issues by identifying and selecting solutions through the applications of acquired technical experience and guided by precedents
• Has the ability to operate with a limited level of direct supervision.
• Can exercise independence of judgement and autonomy.
• Acts as SME to senior stakeholders and /or other team members.
• 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.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in leading globally distributed teams successfully
• Project management, interpersonal, and communication skills, with high attention to minute details.

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

Leadership Skills:

-          Experience in tracking and running project in Agile.

-          Experience of developing teams of permanent employees and vendors from 5 – 20 developers in size

-          A good understanding of the credit card industry and functions of HSM and different types of keys.

-          Requires Strong Stakeholder Management experience to drive discussions between Business, Solutions, Operations and Application Teams.

-          Ability to build a comprehensive understanding of project stakeholders, subject matter, and priorities

-          Leadership and strong communication skills

- Flexible to work across different Time zones supporting stakeholders across LATAM, EMEA and ASPAC regions.

-          Strong customer service focuses with the ability to communicate with highly technical management teams.

-          Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills, both technical and functional.

- Demonstrate excellent leadership, interpersonal, and team building skills.

- Managing time and changing priorities in a dynamic environment

- Ability to provide quick turnaround to software issues and management requests

- Ability to assimilate key issues and concepts and come up to speed quickly

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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

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Other Relevant Skills

For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

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