Lead Engineer, Prime Brokerage Technology Vice President

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Location:

Tampa, Florida, United States Salary: $ - $Category:
Technology Company:
Citi Are you passionate about engineering, testing, automation, and building high-quality software? Do you thrive on working across diverse teams to share your expertise and raise the bar for everyone around you? Do you enjoy collaborating in an Agile environment and take pride in seeing the applications you build delight users? If you're energized by technical leadership, this is the role for you.

About the Team Prime Brokerage Technology delivers the solutions that underpin the operations of our clients and traders, forming the technological backbone of our Prime Finance business. This is an area of significant opportunity, identified as a major growth priority for Citi with technology serving as the key to unlocking that potential.

Job Background Prime Finance operates in a highly competitive marketplace, delivering Prime Brokerage services to institutional clients such as hedge funds, backed by robust financing and stock borrow capabilities.

Prime Brokerage Technology provides the platforms and solutions that support our clients and traders. Our clients depend on us to deliver consistently high levels of service, ensuring transactions, payments, and reporting are processed accurately and without failure, every single day.

We are partway through a transformation journey, replacing legacy components with test-driven, cloud-native microservices designed for stability, scalability, and release agility. In this role, you will help drive that engineering transformation across both the software and the teams that build it.

Key Responsibilities Deliver and own cash and fixed-income data processing components (Java/Kotlin) within the Prime Brokerage Technology platform

Champion developer-led automated testing as a core engineering practice

Work within an Agile team with a strong focus on Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)
Actively participate in design, planning, and estimation discussions

Partner with multiple management teams to ensure functions are well integrated to meet shared goals, and identify system enhancements needed to support new products and process improvements

Resolve high-impact problems through in-depth evaluation of complex business processes, system architecture, and industry standards

Provide subject-matter expertise and advanced applications programming knowledge, ensuring designs align with the overall architecture blueprint

Apply advanced knowledge of system flow to define standards for coding, testing, debugging, and implementation

Build a comprehensive understanding of how architecture, infrastructure, and other business functions integrate to achieve broader business goals

Deliver in-depth, interpretive analysis to define issues clearly and develop innovative solutions

Provide technical leadership, acting as an advisor and coach to mid-level developers and analysts

Knowledge & Experience6-10 years of relevant experience in Apps Development or systems analysis role Proven background delivering software using an iterative Agile approach

Track record of quality-led engineering, including developer-led automated testing, CI/CD, microservices, containerized deployment, and cloud engineering

Demonstrated ability to own and drive successful delivery to business stakeholders

Comfortable engaging directly with product owners to understand requirements and explore solutions

Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously

Prior experience or knowledge of Prime Brokerage is desirable but not essential

Experience operating in a collaborative leadership capacity, acting as "first among peers"Required Skills Open, collaborative communication style

Genuine pride in delivering solutions that make users happy

Practical experience with Agile and Dev Ops practices - including continuous integration, test automation, frequent releases, and containerization

Hands-on JVM development experience using Kotlin, Java, or Scala Solid understanding of Event-based architectures and HTTP/REST-based architectures

Working knowledge of relational databases and SQL Familiarity with tools such as Kubernetes, Open Shift, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a strong plus

Qualifications

Degree in a technical or quantitative discipline preferred (e.g., Computer Science, Mathematics, or related field)
Competencies Takes personal ownership of the timeliness and quality of delivery

Communicates and collaborates effectively with…