Python Apps Development Manager, VP

Overview of the Role

Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management.

As a bank with a brain and a soul, Citi creates economic value that is systemically responsible and in our clients’ best interests. As a financial institution that touches every region of the world and every sector that shapes your daily life, our Enterprise Operations & Technology teams are charged with a mission that rivals any large tech company. Our technology solutions are the foundations of everything we do from keeping the bank safe, managing global resources, and providing the technical tools our workers need to be successful to designing our digital architecture and ensuring our platforms provide a first-class customer experience.

We reimagine client and partner experiences to deliver excellence through secure, reliable, and efficient services.

Our commitment to diversity includes a workforce that represents the clients we serve from all walks of life, backgrounds, and origins. We foster an environment where the best people want to work. We value and demand respect for others, promote individuals based on merit, and ensure opportunities for personal development are widely available to all. Ideal candidates are innovators with well-rounded backgrounds who bring their authentic selves to work and complement our culture of delivering results with pride.

If you are a problem solver who seeks passion in your work, come join us. We’ll enable growth and progress together.

The Applications Development Senior Manager is a senior management level position responsible for accomplishing results through the management of a team or department in an effort to establish and implement new or revised application systems and programs in coordination with the Technology team. The overall objective of this role is to drive applications systems analysis and programming activities.

• Manage one or more Applications Development teams in an effort to accomplish established goals as well as conduct personnel duties for the team (e.g. performance evaluations, hiring, and disciplinary actions).
• Utilize in-depth knowledge and skills across multiple Applications Development areas to provide technical oversight across systems and applications.
• Work closely with business users, stakeholders, BAs, product managers and other development teams to understand problem space, brainstorm ideas, approaches, and solutions.
• Understand and integrate APIs with third party libraries/vendors and handle the security around them.
• Accountable for providing architectural guidance to the SDEs based on best practices and in alignment with CTO guidelines and platform.
• Manage Citi’s technology infrastructure, including software, hardware, and procured products.
• Partner with Support team to ensure stability of production environment with proactive monitoring and health checks.
• Demonstrate the ability to implement continuous improvement and induction of new technology; demonstrate examples of influence in scrum teams beyond your own area of focus.
• 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.

• 6-10 years of relevant experience in the Financial Services industry.
• Experience as Applications Development Manager.
• Experience as senior level in an applications Development role.
• Stakeholder and people management experience.
• Demonstrated leadership skills.
• Proven project management skills.
• Basic knowledge of industry practices and standards.
• C…