About this opportunity
Citigroup Inc. lists this Lead Engineer, Prime Brokerage Technology Vice President opportunity in tampa, Florida. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Are you passionate about engineering, testing, automation, and building high-quality software? Do you thrive on working across diverse teams to share your expertise and raise the bar for everyone around you? Do you enjoy collaborating in an Agile environment and take pride in seeing the applications you build delight users? If you\'re energized by technical leadership, this is the role for you.
About the Team
Prime Brokerage Technology delivers the solutions that underpin the operations of our clients and traders, forming the technological backbone of our Prime Finance business. This is an area of significant opportunity, identified as a major growth priority for Citi with technology serving as the key to unlocking that potential.
Job Background
Prime Finance operates in a highly competitive marketplace, delivering Prime Brokerage services to institutional clients such as hedge funds, backed by robust financing and stock borrow capabilities.
Prime Brokerage Technology provides the platforms and solutions that support our clients and traders. Our clients depend on us to deliver consistently high levels of service, ensuring transactions, payments, and reporting are processed accurately and without failure, every single day.
We are partway through a transformation journey, replacing legacy components with test-driven, cloud-native microservices designed for stability, scalability, and release agility. In this role, you will help drive that engineering transformation across both the software and the teams that build it.
Key Responsibilities
Deliver and own cash and fixed-income data processing components (Java/Kotlin) within the Prime Brokerage Technology platform
Champion developer-led automated testing as a core engineering practice
Work within an Agile team with a strong focus on Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)
Actively participate in design, planning, and estimation discussions
Partner with multiple management teams to ensure functions are well integrated to meet shared goals, and identify system enhancements needed to support new products and process improvements
Resolve high-impact problems through in-depth evaluation of complex business processes, system architecture, and industry standards
Provide subject-matter expertise and advanced applications programming knowledge, ensuring designs align with the overall architecture blueprint
Apply advanced knowledge of system flow to define standards for coding, testing, debugging, and implementation
Build a comprehensive understanding of how architecture, infrastructure, and other business functions integrate to achieve broader business goals
Deliver in-depth, interpretive analysis to define issues clearly and develop innovative solutions
Provide technical leadership, acting as an advisor and coach to mid-level developers and analysts
Knowledge & Experience
6-10 years of relevant experience in Apps Development or systems analysis role
Proven background delivering software using an iterative Agile approach
Track record of quality-led engineering, including developer-led automated testing, CI/CD, microservices, containerized deployment, and cloud engineering
Demonstrated ability to own and drive successful delivery to business stakeholders
Comfortable engaging directly with product owners to understand requirements and explore solutions
Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
Prior experience or knowledge of Prime Brokerage is desirable but not essential
Experience operating in a collaborative leadership capacity, acting as \"first among peers\"
Required Skills
Open, collaborative communication style
Genuine pride in delivering solutions that make users happy
Practical experience with Agile and DevOps practices - including continuous integration, test automation, frequent releases, and containerization
Hands-on JVM development experience using Kotlin, Java, or Scala
Solid understanding of Event-based architectures and HTTP/REST-based architectures
Working knowledge of relational databases and SQL
Familiarity with tools such as Kubernetes, OpenShift, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a strong plus
Qualifications
Degree in a technical or quantitative discipline preferred (e.g., Computer Science, Mathematics, or related field)
Competencies
Takes personal ownership of the timeliness and quality of delivery
Communicates and collaborates effectively with business users and other technology teams
Champions a culture of continuous improvement, always seeking to refine processes and practices - both individually and across the team
Comfortable giving and receiving open, honest feedback
This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.
Citi is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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Worksite address
tampa, FL, 33646, US
Who can apply
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