Application Development Lead

Application Development Lead 

By Joining Citi, you will become part of a global organisation whose mission is to serve as a trusted partner to our clients by responsibly providing financial services that enable growth and economic progress.

Team/Role Overview

The Applications Development Lead is a part of the Issuer Services Technology global management team. This role leads an experienced engineering team to implement new or revised application systems in coordination with the Issuer Services Technology team. 

The Issuer Services business has aggressive business growth goals for the next 3-5 years and has made considerable additional investments in Technology, including quadrupling the size of the technology organization during the past few years. This role is critical to ensure our project oversight and delivery of solutions to the Operations and the Front Office businesses are best in class and scalable to continue supporting growth within the business and our internal technology organization. 

What you’ll do

An ideal candidate has a passion for leadership with a strong capability in leading and directing our development teams. S/he is a senior hands-on technical lead with proven track record leading engineering teams and managing projects with acute awareness and accountability for financial and risk related objectives. S/he has strong technical and architectural skills and proactively contributes to the new technical vision and engineering best practices.  

• You should be hands on with strong analytical and technical ability with 5+ years of experience. An additional 3-4 years involved with complex medium to large projects in a dynamic financial environment is desirable. 

• Willing to learn new techniques, particularly, low code platforms like Appian 

• There is a requirement to lead day to day delivery work and clearly set out a strategic architectural vision and identify project/program delivery risks and work on risk mitigation. 

• You should have good analytical skills to filter, prioritize and validate potentially complex material from multiple sources and employes skills and knowledge of the business to develop creative solutions to meet client and business needs. 

• You will be required to work on complex and variable issues with significant potential impact, weighing various alternatives and stabilizing potentially conflicting needs. 

• Consider budget implications and make appropriate strategic decisions to reduce Citi's risk exposure. 

What we’ll need from you:

• Experience of Java, JavaScript/Angular 

• Experience in Appian is a plus 
• Provide strategic influence and exercise control over resources, budget management and planning while monitoring delivery and end results 
• Manage staff and vendors/contractors to accomplish established goals and conduct personnel duties for team (e.g., performance evaluations, career guidance/mentoring, hiring and disciplinary actions) 
• End to end staff and delivery management for several of the most critical application platforms utilized by Issuer Services 
• Drive the strategic recombination of platforms and applications to align with Digital First and future state objectives 
• Confirmed experience of crafting and delivering successful complex solutions in an enterprise production environment. 
• Experience in working on multiple technologies and medium to complex systems, well versed with design standards and framework. 
• Superb communication, great verbal and written skills and ability to learn fast. 
• Ability to work in a demanding and fast paced environment. Hard-working and highly motivated individual. 
• Self-starter who is passionate for learning about new tools and technologies; Ability to work both independently, with other team members, and across teams. 
• Experience with Agile and all aspects of the SDLC, and DevOps processes 
• Experience with Spring / ORM framework, and database 
• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience, preferably in a Computer Science or related field. 

What we can offer you

By joining Citi Dublin, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), but also receive a competitive base salary (which is annually reviewed) and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits that support you (and your family) to be well, live well and save well. Discover more here.

Alongside these benefits Citi is committed to ensuring our workplace is where everyone feels comfortable coming to work as their whole self every day. We want the best talent around the world to be energised to join us, motivated to stay, and empowered to thrive.

Sounds like Citi has everything you need? Then apply to discover the true extent of your capabilities.

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