Senior Engineering Manager - Citi

We are in search of a dynamic Senior Engineering Manager to lead Workflow and inventories technical teams in the development of strategic platforms, utilised across various business stakeholders across Markets. In this senior role, you will be primarily responsible for establishing and steering the strategy for the technical domain in collaboration with Senior Business Users, Product Managers, Software Architects, and multiple Software Engineering partners. The ideal candidate will exhibit exceptional managerial, architectural, hands-on coding, and infrastructure skills, along with a solid track record of leading high-performing engineering teams. We are seeking someone with robust management and operational skills to enhance efficiency and expedite execution.

Key Responsibilities:

• Hands-on leadership of Application Development team to achieve set goals and conduct personnel duties (e.g., coding, deploying, hiring, performance evaluations, etc.)
• Construct and uphold the strategic vision and design of the entire workflow platform, ensuring prompt delivery of work items within both functional and non-functional areas.
• Develop and execute an engineering excellence plan for multiple software engineering teams to consistently improve technical implementation areas.
• Troubleshoot various high-impact problems/projects through comprehensive evaluation of complex business processes, system processes, and industry standards.
• Provide subject expertise and superior knowledge of applications programming, ensuring application design conforms to the overarching architecture blueprint.
• Cultivate extensive knowledge of business areas, such as architecture and infrastructure, integrate to achieve business goals.
• Investigate in-depth and employ interpretive thinking to identify issues and develop pioneering solutions.
• Serve as a mentor or coach to developers, architects, and project managers, delegating work as necessary.
• Enforce adherence to the highest code quality and testing standards among all team members.
• Evaluate and conduct Proof of Concepts (POC) for new strategic technical products and applications, assessing their applicability to the workflow platform.

Skills & Qualifications:

• Extensive commercial experience managing technical teams with diverse skill sets (e.g., backend engineers, full stack engineers, software engineers in test, and system reliability engineers).
• Proficient in JBPM workflow management, or possessing a good understanding of BPM tools with a proven capacity to quickly develop expertise in JBPM.
• Significant hands-on experience in Application Development leveraging Java, Spring Boot, and React, including scalable backend services, APIs, and advanced frontend UIs.
• Comprehensive understanding of microservices-based applications system design and modern architectural patterns, including Event-Driven Design.
• Profound knowledge of messaging technologies like Tibco Queue, Apache Kafka, etc.
• Practical application of Docker and Kubernetes for containerisation and orchestration of applications.
• Knowledge of oAuth2, OpenID Connect, and best practices for API security.
• Practical experience with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code tools, including Harness, Tekton Pipelines.
• Professional experience using SQL and non-SQL DB technologies (Oracle, MS SQL, Mongo DB), and a thorough understanding of in-memory caching and searching technologies (Hazelcast, Redis, etc.).
• Practical knowledge of testing automation principles and frameworks (e.g., TDD, BDD, Contract Testing).
• Ability to uphold high development standards under pressure, especially concerning code quality, code reviews, unit testing, continuous integration, and deployment.
• Eagerness to take on challenges and utilise new technologies.
• Experience working in fast-paced development environments.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

What we'll provide you:

This is a unique role that will put you in the position to be part of a new venture and actively drive change. Every day there will be new challenges that will help you develop new skills that can drive your career. This role will be based out of our London campus but will be considered as a hybrid role with up to 2 days a week working from home.

By joining Citi you receive a competitive base salary (which is annually reviewed), and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits such as:

• 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• A discretional annual performance related bonus
• Private Medical Care & Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Pension Plan
• Paid Parental Leave
• Special discounts for employees, family, and friends
• Access to an array of learning and development resources

Alongside these benefits, Citi is committed to ensuring our workplace is where everyone feels comfortable coming to work as their whole self, every day. We want the best talent around the world to be energised to join us, motivated to stay and empowered to thrive.