Engineering Lead(Java) VP(Jersey City)

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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.

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The Engineering Lead is a senior level position responsible for leading a variety of engineering activities including the design, acquisition and deployment of hardware, software and network infrastructure in coordination with the Technology team. The overall objective of this role is to lead efforts to ensure quality standards are being met within existing and planned framework.

Banking as a Service is a key growth engine for Services franchise providing Virtual Accounts and Payer ID services for our Payment Intermediary and ecommerce clients.
We are looking for a dynamic, technically adept, hands-on Engineering Lead who would help define our Engineering standards and ensure best in class technologies are employed in developing the application.

Responsibilities:

• Senior Lead Engineer who can drive technology solutions across BaaS platform that runs globally
• Design and implement the technical foundation for BaaS and Express offerings, ensuring scalability, security, and seamless integration with partner ecosystems.
• Define and implement the technical architecture and infrastructure strategy for the tech platform, ensuring it meets and exceeds our stringent 99.99% uptime and 5000+ TPS requirements.
• Establish the technical vision and roadmap for global BaaS optimizing for high throughput, low latency, and 24/7 availability across multiple geographies and countries.
• Design, implement and maintain the Java-based application that would be storing high-volume data and would require low-latency
• Solve complex engineering problems and challenges while building a globally scalable and highly resilient application
• Support continuous improvement, investigating alternatives and technologies, and presenting for architectural review
• Effectively manage the software project, from start to finish. This role includes determining the project's scope and objectives and summarizing them into actionable project schedules that correspond to the available skillset of the team members.
• Must also be able to effectively communicate the project status at various points of the development process to stakeholders and upper management.
• Need to be good team player to collaborate technical design idea across different geographies

Qualifications:

• A minimum of 6+ years of strong experience in implementing end to end server side technical solutions in distributed systems
• Extensive hands on experience in designing, implementing, delivering large scale JAVA Server applications
• Efficient in JAVA programming language that includes high performance,  low latency, efficient memory management
• Strong software system designing skills for designing robust and efficient solutions in the payments platform  
• In-depth understanding of Java Spring frame work.
• Expert in Oracle Database, SQL queries, performance tuning
• Well versed in various development methodologies, and frameworks, as well as a wide variety of cloud services
• Expert in using Kafka middleware and performance tuning
• Expert in OpenShift ECS clusters.
• Expert in Junit testing and writing testable code. Expert in making legacy code testable. Able to drive Left shift testing paradigm
• Well versed with SonarQube, Bit Bucket and Git
• Well versed with JIRA Framework and Sprint management concepts
• Strong Technical and Non-Technical communication skills to be able to communicate within team as well as externally with stakeholders.
• Enterprise Environment, preferably Financial background and more specifically, Payments Backgrounds

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience

Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S.  (Citi will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work authorization for this position). Position is based in Jersey City, NJ, Candidate must be located within commuting distance or be willing to relocate to the area

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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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