Full stack Engineering Lead(Java and UI)-Vice President

Full job description
Job Req Id:
2694XXXXXX
Location(s):
Pune, Maharashtra, India, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Job Type:
On-Site/Resident
Posted:
Mar. 27, 2026

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Job Overview
Overview:

Finance Technology, enables Citi to achieve its day-to-day and long-term growth goals, enabling execution of Citi’s Strategy by providing services, technical solutions, and infrastructure across the bank. These solutions enable Citi to comply with regulatory mandates and empower our businesses to achieve their goals, both current and long-term. In Finance Technology we’re pushing the limits of technology. Our products and initiatives adhere to Citi’s strategic architecture principles and support the end-to-end integration of multiple global functions within the bank including Finance, Risk, and Controllers.

What we offer: -

Be part of Strategic team to develop, enhance, support and maintain solutions for Finance Technology.
Participate in technical discussions/brainstorming sessions and define ideas and strategies for existing and future platforms.
Gain exposure to Wholesale, Retail business across data, risk and finance.
Work across diverse set of Finance platforms and have an opportunity to be part of re architecture and re-platforming initiatives on low code automation platforms.
Responsibilities: -

Manage all technology standards across functional area, ensuring development, understanding and adherence around the globe.
Set goals within functional area that are delivered to appropriate Operations & Technology organizations.
Contribute to the IT Project Leadership function to harmonize with overall business /technology objectives and ensure teams within the functional area are adequately staffed and possess the required skills sets to carry out their roles.
Provide an environment where Subject Matter Experts can work efficiently and delivery effectively.
Manage execution of IT strategy and roadmap for assigned technology area.
Apply an in-depth understanding of concepts and procedures within engineering and basic knowledge of those elements in other areas.
Responsible for training and coaching team members, performance management activities, monitoring quantity and quality of work, and addressing development needs for assigned personnel.
Make evaluative judgments based on information analysis in complicated or unique situations, utilizing multiple sources of information.
Negotiate with senior leaders (across functions) and communicate and negotiate with external parties.
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.
Qualifications: -

9+ years of strong experience in Application Development or systems analysis role.
Strong Experience on Architecting Enterprise highly scalable applications
Extensive experience system analysis and in programming of software applications.
Experience in managing and implementing successful projects.
Proven engineering experience building robust, scalable, and maintainable applications in the Capital Markets Technology industry.
Build, deploy, and test application components in a development environment during the implementation phase working with all layers of the application stack.
Work proactively & independently to address project requirements, and articulate issues/challenges with enough lead time to address project delivery risks.
Code reviews, test case reviews, and ensure code developed meets the requirements.
Influence and negotiate with senior technical leaders from partner teams of software engineers, devops and production support staff to deliver robust software solutions.
Ensure the team is collaborating effectively across functions.
Ability to adjust priorities quickly as circumstances dictate.
Experience working in Financial Services or a large complex and/or global environment.
Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication.
Comprehensive knowledge of design metrics, analytics tools, benchmarking activities and related reporting to identify best practices.
Demonstrated analytic/diagnostic skills.
Ability to work in a matrix environment and partner with virtual teams.
Ability to work independently, prioritize, and take ownership of various parts of a project or initiative.
Ability to work under pressure and manage to tight deadlines or unexpected changes in expectations or requirements.
Proven track record of operational process changes and improvement.
Demonstrated leadership and project management skills.
Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication.
Technical Skills:

Must have:-

9+ years of strong experience in Full stack development using React, Typescript, Node.js, stylesheets, Java/JVM Based Language Like Java, Kotlin, Microservices.
Should have strong hand-on experience designing and building UI framework using react in align with latest UI framework practices and guidelines.
Strong experience of API Development and its Eco-systems.
Hands-on working experience React, Java script, Java / Spring / Spring Cloud / Spring Data JPA / Spring Boot Microservices.
Should have troubleshooting skills using debuggers, logs, etc.
Strong understanding of test-driven development using Jest, Cypress, Java script, Junit, Mockito.
Experience with Public clouds like AWS, GCP will be added advantage.
Experience with OpenShift, Docker and Kubernetes.
Understanding of build and deployment tools like, Jenkin. Tekton, UDeploy, Harness, NPM, Maven, Gradle.
Implement Unit Testing and TDD to ensure software quality and maintainability
Proficiency in SQL Databases, MongoDB, Oracle preferred.
Nice to have:-

Experience on Observability and monitoring tech stack as well.
Understanding of Gen AI based Productivity tool like Microsoft Co-Pilot, Devin etc.
Understanding Middleware like Tibco RV, EMS, Solace, Kafka etc.
Understanding of Python, Gen AI will be plus.
Educational Qualification: -

Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience.
Master’s degree preferred.
Additional Job Description

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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