Senior Technology Lead - C14 - JERSEY CITY

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Job Overview

Senior Technology Lead will be driving implementation of technology solution for our reference data teams providing crucial data services and expected to operate within the parameter-set and in close cooperation with our risk and compliance team to enforce all applicable policies and procedures outlined within Citibank technology guidelines, CDO and relevant government laws and regulations.  Candidate will be expected to embody and enforce culture of effective risk management and compliance and ensure effective execution grounded in sound business and managerial practices and procedures.

All potential candidates must be able to work in a dynamic, global team environment which includes developers and developer team leads working with different technologies (such as Java stack, RDBMS, Middleware and scalable data processing) and across multiple regions.  Candidates must have excellent understanding of principles of enterprise architecture and have substantive solution design, implementation and hands on experience with modern Cloud hosting platforms and approaches or closely related technologies and techniques for driving Cloud based application migrations.

Required Skills:

• Senior technical leadership experience in design and team based implementation of complex technology solutions

• Extensive experience with enterprise services and platforms

• Understanding of applicable regulations for financial technology industry

• Hands on experience with implementation of large scale, highly secure, fault tolerant, DR ready, distributed applications

• Thorough knowledge of enterprise architecture principles and best industry practices

• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills

• Proven track record of successful execution in large scale enterprises

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Specific technical proficiencies:

• 10+ years of experience developing software for large scale enterprises

• 10+ years of experience as Java software developer

• 3+ years of experience writing both REST and SOAP Web Services.

• Strong knowledge of database modeling with hands-on experience modeling complex OLTP and Reporting data stores

• Expert Knowledge of: Threading, Collections, Exception Handling, JDBC, Java OOD/OOP Concepts, GoF Design Patterns, MoM and SOA Design Patterns, File I/O, and parsing XML and JSON, delimited files and fixed length files, String matching, parsing, building, working with binary data / byte arrays.

• Experience in developing distributed systems (MOM and SOA architectures)

• Expert Knowledge of System Design including mentioned design patterns above, and ability to create Architectural Diagrams including UML in tools such as Visio.

• Experience in developing distributed systems

• Up-to-date overview of modern software development tools and techniques

• Java concurrency (practical experience and good knowledge)

• Expert knowledge of SQL (Oracle and PostgreSQL dialects are preferable)

• Solid understanding of ETL and BI technologies and their applications

• Good knowledge of JAX-RS / REST and JAX-WS SOAP Web Services

• Good knowledge of JAXB / XML and JSON

• Good knowledge of both horizontal and vertical scaling of applications (Multi-Process and Multi-Threading).

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience

• Master’s degree preferred

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

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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:

Jersey City New Jersey United States

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Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:

$176,720.00 - $265,080.00

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:

Aug 31, 2025

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