Applications Development Senior Programmer Analyst - AVP

Lead Java Developer

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.

Seeking for an experienced Lead Java Developer to join the team supporting the Regulatory Reporting Hub, a Franchise Critical Application responsible for ensuring global regulatory compliance across the organization's financial operations. This role is central to the development and enhancement of Risk and Finance dashboard applications that deliver sensitive analytical data to senior management, supporting critical business process workflows. The ideal candidate brings 6–10 years of enterprise-level Java development experience and combines deep technical expertise with the ability to collaborate across business and technology teams.

This position offers the opportunity to shape architectural decisions, mentor junior developers, and directly influence the quality and reliability of systems that underpin Citibank's regulatory obligations worldwide.

• Design, develop, and maintain enterprise-grade Java/J2EE web applications supporting Risk and Finance regulatory reporting workflows.
• Build and enhance front-end components of dashboard applications using JavaScript, AngularJS, HTML5, CSS, and AJAX.
• Participate in and contribute to architectural design discussions, proposing solutions to complex technical and design challenges.
• Review code quality, identify and remediate defects, and provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior team members.
• Critically evaluate existing processing pipelines and recommend improvements to drive efficiency and performance enhancements.
• Liaise with business users to gather, document, and translate business requirements into technical specifications.
• Collaborate with technology partners and cross-functional teams to implement reconciliation processes and ensure business requirements are met.
• Define and execute testing strategies, including managing User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and providing post-implementation support.
• Lead weekly status review calls with stakeholders to track progress, maintain issues logs, and follow up on action items to ensure timely completion.
• Provide reporting inputs for bi-weekly steering committee updates, including project status, financials, and escalations as appropriate.
• Work within an Agile delivery environment, contributing to sprint planning, reviews, and continuous improvement practices.

• 5+ years of hands-on experience delivering enterprise-level Java development projects, with expert-level proficiency in Core Java, Spring Framework, Spring MVC, and J2EE.
• Demonstrated expertise in Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, and the Cloudera Ecosystem (Hadoop, HDFS, Hive, Impala).
• Strong proficiency in RESTful Web Services, XSD, JSON, and server-side integration patterns.
• Proficiency in front-end technologies including JavaScript, AngularJS, HTML5, CSS, and AJAX.
• Experience developing high-performance, multi-threaded applications with a solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, and operating systems.
• Solid knowledge of software design patterns and the ability to apply them to resolve complex architectural and design challenges.
• Experience with web application servers, specifically Web Sphere and WASND.
• Familiarity with source code management tools,…