Engineering Lead Vice President

Role

As an Engineering Lead you will be responsible for establishing and implementing new or revised application systems and programs in coordination with the Technology team. The overall objective of this role is to lead applications systems analysis and programming activities

Developer Engineering & Engineering Excellence Tech is a function within CTO, responsible for measuring and supporting Engineers across Citi. Our mission is to make it easy and enjoyable for software engineering teams to go from a business idea to delivering an innovative product solution. The main goals are to improve and upgrade our tools, streamline our processes, automate and strengthen our controls, and help development teams adopt modern working methods.

We are an expert team to transform the working environment of the 60,000 people who make up the Citi engineering community and help them dramatically change their approach to developing software across the many different technologies we support. The Developer Engineering group has a challenging remit, but with the scale and variety comes a unique opportunity to be agents of cultural and technical change who significantly impact the bank.

The Engineering Excellence Platform team has three broad goals: to measure the progress of the organisation towards its outcomes; to establish meaningful measures that development teams leverage; and finally, to reinforce positive behaviours via the influence of measurement. The team requires skilled Engineers, who intimately understand the development process and can also contribute to the wider initiative's cultural goals.

This role is a senior level position responsible for accomplishing results modern software engineering practices and Dev Ops/Agile delivery.

The team is also responsible for working with the other Developer Engineering streams to ensure capabilities are implemented within infrastructure, taught in training courses and advertised and discussed across the developer community.

• Partner with multiple management teams to ensure appropriate integration of functions to meet goals as well as identify and define necessary system enhancements to deploy new products and process improvements
• Resolve variety of high impact problems/projects through in-depth evaluation of complex business processes, system processes, and industry standards
• Provide expertise in area and advanced knowledge of applications programming and ensure application design adheres to the overall architecture blueprint
• Utilize advanced knowledge of system flow and develop standards for coding, testing, debugging, and implementation
• Develop comprehensive knowledge of how areas of business, such as architecture and infrastructure, integrate to accomplish business goals
• Provide in-depth analysis with interpretive thinking to define issues and develop innovative solutions
• Serve as advisor or coach to mid-level developers and analysts, allocating work 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.

• Proven experience as a hands on Engineering Lead, Software Engineer
• Expertise in multiple programming languages (java/spring boot, Open Shift, REST, Kafka, Go, Python), architecture/design
• Prior experience with Go and Python is considered advantageous.
• Strong understanding of both SQL and No
  
  SQL databases
• Proven experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, container-based micro-services, distributed logs, SQL and No
  
  SQL databases, and Dev Ops
• Experience with Angular or React would be beneficial.

By joining Citi Belfast, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), but also receive a competitive base salary…