Full Stack Engineering Lead, Vice President in London

Are you looking for a career move that will put you at the heart of a global financial institution? We are seeking a talented and passionate Senior Engineering Lead to join the Finance Technology team. You will be a key contributor to the re-platform of our existing applications to support the Finance business. You will apply your deep technical expertise to build and implement robust solutions while promoting engineering best practices.

This role is for an experienced full stack engineering lead who is passionate about hands-on implementation and collaboration. You will be a core member of the team, delivering high-quality, scalable solutions to enhance operational efficiency. The overarching objective is to provide expert contributions to application systems analysis, architecture, and programming activities.

By joining Citi, you will become part of a global organisation whose mission is to serve as a trusted partner to our clients by responsibly providing financial services that enable growth and economic progress.

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.

This strategic journey requires a highly motivated and accomplished Senior Vice President, Full Stack Engineering Lead to drive the design, development, and delivery of a next-generation platform. The solution will be built from the ground up, leveraging cutting-edge technologies including Java, Spring Boot, and React.

• Software Development: Design, develop, test, and deploy high-quality, scalable, and maintainable code.
• Quality Advocacy: Promote best practices for engineering excellence in coding, testing, build, deployment, and the maintenance of high-quality software.
• Solution Implementation: Act as an active contributor to design and a hands-on implementer of code.
• Agile Mindset: Actively participate in scrum activities such as sprint planning and refinement, offering technical insights for backlog items.
• Technical Excellence: Deliver robust and efficient technical solutions, adhering to best-in-class engineering principles and practices.
• Collaboration: Partner with the Scrum Master, Product Owner, QA, Architects and other global development team members on a day-to-day basis to successfully deliver technical solutions and reusable components.
• Learning Mindset: Keep up with the latest development practices in the industry and Citi with an eye to implement them in our team such as – Gen AI, DORA metrics, etc.

• Strong experience in architecting enterprise highly scalable applications.
• Extensive experience in system analysis and in programming of software applications.
• Proven engineering experience building robust, scalable, and maintainable applications in the Capital Markets Technology industry.
• Ability to work proactively & independently to address project requirements, and articulate issues/challenges with enough lead time to address project delivery risks.
• Experience working in Financial Services or a large complex and/or global environment.
• Demonstrated leadership and project management skills.

• Must have: Strong experience in Full stack development using React, Typescript, Node.js, stylesheets, Java/JVM Based Language like Java, Kotlin, Microservices.
• Strong experience of API Development and its ecosystems.
• Hands-on working experience with React, JavaScript, Java / Spring / Spring Cloud / Spring Data JPA / Spring Boot Microservices.
• Understanding of build and deployment tools like Jenkins, Tekton, UDeploy, Harness, NPM, Maven, Gradle.
• Proficiency in SQL Databases, MongoDB, Oracle preferred.

• Nice to have: Experience on observability and monitoring tech stack.
• Understanding of Gen AI based productivity tools like Microsoft Co-Pilot.

Be part of a 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 a diverse set of Finance platforms and have an opportunity to be part of re-architecture and re-platforming initiatives on low code automation platforms.

Drive Global Impact: Be part of a team building a mission-critical system that will streamline and automate key operational workflows across the firm, directly impacting business efficiency.

Solve Complex Challenges: Design and build a scalable, resilient, and cloud-native architecture for a complex workflow and case management system.

Work with a Talented Team: Collaborate with a skilled team of developers, product owners, and architects, fostering a culture of engineering excellence and innovation.

We work hard to have a positive financial and social impact on the communities we serve. In turn, we put our employees first and provide the best-in-class benefits they need to be well, live well and save well.

By joining Citi London, 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 (which is annually reviewed), and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits such as:

• Generous holiday allowance starting at 27 days plus bank holidays; increasing with tenure.
• A discretional annual performance-related bonus.
• Private medical insurance packages to suit your personal circumstances.
• 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 energized to join us, motivated to stay, and empowered to thrive.

Sounds like Citi has everything you need? Then apply to discover the true extent of your capabilities.