Senior Full-Stack Application Engineer, Vice President

About Team and Platform

Citi Futures and Derivatives Clearing Technology supports a rapidly growing business that uses technological innovation to maintain competitive advantage in a constantly evolving market. Working closely with the business, external vendors and internal technology teams, you will build‑out and maintain our next generation clearing platforms. You will manage complex projects involving everything from incorporating new functionality within the existing ecosystem to analyzing new requirements, documenting solutions, managing implementation and testing systems, and ensuring they are fit for purpose.

You will regularly work with a range of Business Analysts and high‑profile stakeholders.

The Data and Reporting team develops and supports a platform that provides client reporting and feeds other downstream applications within Citi. It provides reporting such as real‑time trades, positions, initial and variation margin, and balances for external clients and internal users such as traders, operations and sales. A major ongoing initiative is to modernize the existing platform to provide scale and enhance product offerings and new business requirements.

As the development lead for data and reporting, you will lead the team to deliver best‑in‑class technical solutions to meet the needs of our Futures and Clearing business. This includes researching best practices, designing the application architecture, shaping solutions, and delivering the application to the business. The team works closely with cross‑functional business users, QA engineers, and BAs collaborating to deliver best‑in‑class solutions.

This role suits experienced architects/developers who have excellent communication skills and are passionate about driving technical solutions through leadership, excellence, and collaboration.

• Lead design and development of technical solutions for the data and reporting application utilizing best engineering practices.
• Contribute to technical direction and enhancement as a technical expert in development and implementation phases, providing in‑depth analyses to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Work closely with business users, stakeholders, BAs, product managers and other development teams to understand the problem space and brainstorm ideas, approaches, and solutions.
• Design and develop software applications using microservices, cloud‑native architecture to be resilient, stateless, scalable, and testable with automation and reusability as key objectives.
• Contribute to CI/CD implementation using Dev Ops best practices based on industry and Citi standards and help implement them.
• Work with key business SMEs to develop an in‑depth understanding of their critical data and reporting needs and the business impact of existing data quality and integrity issues.
• Provide a data‑driven approach to problem‑solving and decision‑making, utilising metrics and performance indicators to assess team efficiency and identify improvement opportunities.
• Partner with the QA team to ensure a robust testing framework is used for functional and non‑functional testing for release cycles.
• Partner with the Support team to ensure stability of the production environment with proactive monitoring and health checks.
• Collaborate with other Citi development teams to build APIs, integrations and share components critical to our platform’s success.
• Exhibit strong leadership qualities, fostering a positive and collaborative work environment, providing guidance and mentorship to team members, and promoting a culture of continuous learning.

• Strong experience in designing and building best‑in‑class enterprise applications and data architecture with site engineering excellence.
• 6‑10 years of hands‑on experience leading solution architecture and development including front‑end web development and back‑end application development with scalable data architecture.
• Strong communication and problem‑solving skills.
• Hands‑on experience with front‑end, back‑end and infrastructure technologies including Angular/React, Spring Boot/Cloud, and API.
• Hands‑on experience with modern software paradigms including…