SDLC & Release Automation Java/Kotlin Engineer - Citi

Discover your future at Citi. Working at Citi is far more than just a job. A career with us means joining a team of approximately 219,000 dedicated people from around the globe. At Citi, you'll have the opportunity to grow your career, give back to your community and make a real impact.

We're looking for an enthusiastic & talented server side engineer, to join our high-impact teams inside Citi's CTO organisation. You'll sit within Developer Enablement, a group focused on innovation, productivity and automation of our strategic developer tools used across the bank. We embody modern best delivery practices, experiment and ship fast, like a startup inside a global bank. Our mission is to drive productivity by streamlining/automating processes & make the best tools available for our 30k engineers. We are here to be opinionated and challenge processes and procedures making software delivery easier, more enjoyable and safer.

There are many exciting automation and simplification opportunities across the suite of strategic CTO owned tools related to developer release practices and SDLC alignment. Two closely related key strategic projects will require your expertise driving solutions:

• Release on Demand (RoD): This is our strategic release management platform that makes it trivial to generate production run books & ServiceNow Changes with the click of a button. Built internally approximately three years ago, the platform has quickly become our strategic release generation and deployment tool used across all lines of business. Last year it generated 60k releases and automated the deployment of approx. 65% of them. The tool is expanding at a rapid pace across the enterprise and is expected to double its release volumes for the third year running. RoD enables cultural change within development teams enabling them to move quickly whilst maintaining codified quality gates to ensure the correct SDLC and procedural requirements of the firm are upheld, whilst driving industry best practices (DORA).
• SDLC Automation: This is a greenfield initiative that builds on the success we've had in automating the SDLC and takes it further. This blue-sky project looks at ways we can greatly improve the SDLC process at Citi, taking ideas like grading engineering teams and rewarding those who follow best practices, perhaps moving them from manual approval processes to an automatic one. The use of Artificial Intelligence is planned to further automate and remove manual human led processes that add toil to the SDLC process.

Why you'll love working here:

• You get to work in the engineering focused part of the bank, the Chief Technology Office, building tools for other engineers.
• You'll work and lead small, agile teams, in an organisation led by technologists and use the latest AI tooling to complete your work.
• You will impact the daily experience of tens of thousands of engineers at one of the largest engineering organisations in the world.
• Our culture runs on engineering craftsmanship. Leadership here actually understands what that means.

What you will do:

• Write code and deliver. You are a delivery focussed engineer for our back end services. That means contributing high-quality code regularly, not just reviewing other people's. You set the bar through your own work.

What We're Looking For:

A selection of the tools and capabilities required across our platforms. We value multi-disciplined polyglot engineers but also understand and support the need for specialisms too across the wider department. Proven experience delivering.