Senior Technical Java Lead - Senior Vice President

Senior Technical Java Lead – Senior Vice President

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Location(s): Pune, Maharashtra, India

Job Type: On-Site/Resident

• Develop platform vision and strategy to support Prime Growth, working closely with the global technology leads.
• Deliver on an aggressive agenda whilst providing technical oversight of a local team of developers.
• Resolve a variety of high‑impact problems and projects through in‑depth evaluation of complex business processes, system processes, and industry standards.
• Ensure change is managed with appropriate controls, documentation, approvals, and implementation of new and revised regulatory reporting requirements.
• Solve the highest‑impact, highest‑profile problems with significant business impact through in‑depth evaluation of complex business processes, system processes, and industry standards.
• Provide expertise and advanced knowledge of applications programming, ensuring application design adheres to the overall architecture blueprint.
• Utilise advanced knowledge of system flow and develop standards for coding, testing, debugging, and implementation.
• Develop comprehensive knowledge of how areas of business, such as architecture and infrastructure, integrate to accomplish business goals.
• Contribute to technical direction and strategic decisions as a technical expert in all development and implementation phases, providing sophisticated analyses to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Serve as adviser or coach to mid‑level developers and analysts.
• 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 judgement regarding personal behaviour, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

• 10+ years of relevant experience in Applications Development and previous leadership of developers.
• Awareness of building event based systems with low latency trading requirements.
• Comprehensive experience with all phases of Software Development Life Cycle, including Agile delivery.
• Demonstrated ability to work under pressure managing multiple activities and changing priorities.
• Ability to adjust priorities quickly as circumstances dictate.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Flexibility to work with a global team, across geographies and time zones.

• Technical skills in Java, Kafka, Distributed Caching, SQL, Git.
• Experience in performing QA, TDD and BDD practices.
• Experience with building containerised solutions that horizontally scale.
• Exposure to AI solutions to accelerate development.
• Proven ability to work in a high‑pressure environment.
• Strong problem‑solving skills and ability to think strategically.

• React and full stack development.
• Knowledge of Prime Services is a plus.

This job description provides a high‑level review of the types of work performed. Other job‑related duties may be assigned as required.

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