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Applications Development Lead – Vice President

Job Req Id:

26959656

Location(s):

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Job Type:

Hybrid

Posted:

Jun. 08, 2026

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Job Overview

The Applications Development Senior Manager is responsible for accomplishing results through the management of a team or department in an effort to establish and implement new or revised application systems and programs in coordination with the Technology team. The overall objective of this role is to drive applications systems analysis and programming activities.

Responsibilities:

  • Manage one or more Applications Development teams in an effort to accomplish established goals as well as conduct personnel duties for team (e.g. performance evaluations, hiring and disciplinary actions)

  • Utilize in-depth knowledge and skills across multiple Applications Development areas to provide technical oversight across systems and applications

  • Review and analyze proposed technical solutions for projects

  • Contribute to formulation of strategies for applications development and other functional areas

  • Develop comprehensive knowledge of how areas of business integrate to accomplish business goals

  • Provide evaluative judgment based on analysis of factual data in complicated and unique situations

  • Impact the Applications Development area through monitoring delivery of end results, participate in budget management, and handling day-to-day staff management issues, including resource management and allocation of work within the team/project

  • Ensure essential procedures are followed and contribute to defining standards negotiating with external parties when necessary

  • 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, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.

  • Develop and maintain application development to complicated enterprise data lineage

  • Optimize industry based tool to simplify enterprise level data complexity via data lineage

  • Debug and resolve graph-related issues

  • Collaborate on designing and implementing new features to simplify complex problems

  • Conduct code reviews for quality assurance

  • Write and maintain documentation for functionalities and APIs

  • Integrate and validate third-party libraries and tools

  • Manage source code using version control systems

  • Implement algorithms for code generation and optimization

  • Perform code refactoring for better maintainability and efficiency

  • Stay updated with advancements in Data lineage technology

  • Profile and benchmark compiler performance on various platforms

  • Develop automated testing and verification of code base and functionality

  • Provide technical support to teams using technical expertise

  • Analyze performance metrics to identify areas for improvement

  • Participate in design and architecture discussions

  • Use static and dynamic analysis tools to improve code quality

  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams

  • Research new techniques and methodologies

  • Contribute and engage with open-source compiler projects


Recommended Qualifications:

  • 6-10 years of application Ab-initio Metadata hub development experience.

  • Strong understanding of Data Lineage, metadata management and reference data development and data analytics.

  • Good knowledge about relational databases like Oracle, SQL / PLSQL,

  • Strong knowledge in one or more of the areas of: Data lineage, application development, python or Java coding experience

  • Hands on experience of any coding language and tool based configuration prior experience.

  • Full Software Development Kit (SDK) development cycle experience.

  • Pragmatic problem-solving and ability to work independently or as part of a team.

  • Proficiency in ab-initio mHub or python programming languages.

  • Proficiency with 1 or more of the following programming languages: Java, API, Python

  • A passion for development, strong work ethic, and continuous learning.

  • Experience with code optimization techniques for different hardware architectures. 


Education:

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field/University degree or equivalent experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience relational database i.e. SQL / PLSQL, Oracle etc
- Experience with code development, metadata management, reference data,  Lineage tool
- Experience with developing data lineage using tool or custom code.
- Experience is Data management and coding language

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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 Full Time Salary Range:

$120,800.00 - $170,800.00

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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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