Apps Development Big Data Engineering Manager/Lead - MISSISSAUGA - Hybrid

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Job Overview

Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Our core activities are safeguarding assets, lending money, making payments and accessing the capital markets on behalf of our clients.

Citi’s Mission and Value Proposition explain what we do and Strategy explain how we do it. Our mission is to serve as a trusted partner to our clients by responsibly providing financial services that enable growth and economic progress. We strive to earn and maintain our clients’ and the public’s trust by constantly adhering to the highest ethical standards and making a positive impact on the communities we serve.

The Applications Development Group Manager/Lead is a senior management level position 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 multiple teams of professionals to accomplish established goals and conduct personnel duties for team (e.g. performance evaluations, hiring and disciplinary actions)
• Provide strategic influence and exercise control over resources, budget management and planning while monitoring end results
• Utilize in-depth knowledge of concepts and procedures within own area and basic knowledge of other areas to resolve issues
• Ensure essential procedures are followed and contribute to defining standards
• Integrate in-depth knowledge of applications development with overall technology function to achieve established goals
• Provide evaluative judgement based on analysis of facts in complicated, unique, and dynamic situations including drawing from internal and external sources
• Influence and negotiate with senior leaders across functions, as well as communicate with external parties as 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.

Core Responsibilities:

• This role is for a Senior Data Engineering Tech Manager/Lead to work on the Vanguard Big Data Platform. The team is responsible for the design, architecture, development, and maintenance/support of leading Big Data initiatives and use cases providing business value.
• Interface with product teams to understand their requirements to build the ingestion pipelines and conformance layer for consumption by business.
• Work closely with the data ingestion team to track the requirements and drive the build out of the canonical models.
• Provide guidance to the data conformance team for implementing the requirements / changes / enhancements to the conformance model.
• Do very much technical and hands-on development as part of the conformance team to deliver the business requirements.
• Manage the workload of the team and the scrum process to align it with the objectives and priorities of the product owners.
• Participate in data management activities related to the Risk and Regulatory requirements as needed.

Core Skills:

• The Data Engineering Senior Manager/lead will be working very closely with and managing the work of a team of data engineers working on our Big Data
• Platform. The lead will need the below core skills –
• Strong solid understanding of the Big Data architecture and the ability to trouble shoot performance and/or development issues on Hadoop (Cloudera preferably)
• Hands-on experience working with Hive, Impala, Kafka, HBase, Spark for data curation/conformance related work.
• Strong proficiency in Spark for development work related to curation/conformance. Strong Scala development (with previous Java background) preferred.
• Experience with Spark/Kafka or equivalent streaming/batch processing and event-based messaging.
• Strong data analysis skills and the ability to slice and dice the data as needed for business reporting.
• Experience working in an agile environment with a fast-paced changing requirement.
• Excellent planning and organizational skills
• Strong Communication skil

• Additional Requirements (Nice to have):

•  Cloudera/Hortonworks/AWS EMR, Couchbase, S3 experience a plus
• Experience with Cloud Integration on AWS, Snowflake, Couchbase, or GCP tech stack components.
• Relational SQL (Oracle, SQL Server) and NoSQL (MongoDB) database integration and data distribution principles experience
• Experience with API development and use of JSON/XML/Hypermedia data formats.
• Analysis and development across Lines of business product/function including Payments, Digital Channels, Liquidities, Trade, Sales, Pricing, Client Experience having Cross train, functional and/or technical knowledge
• Align to Engineering Excellence Development principles and standards.

Qualifications:

• 12+ years of relevant experience
• Experience in implementing projects
• Experience in systems analysis and programming of software applications
• Demonstrated Subject Matter Expert (SME) in area(s) of Applications Development
• Demonstrated knowledge of client core business functions
• Demonstrated leadership, project management, and development skills
• Relationship and consensus building skills
• Experience as Applications Development Manager
• Basic knowledge of industry practices and standards
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
• Master’s degree preferred

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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

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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