Application Development Technology Senior Lead Analyst, Senior Vice President

Citi•Jersey City, NJ

1d•$176,720 - $265,080•Onsite

About The Position

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 Technology Senior Lead Analyst is a senior level position responsible for establishing and implementing new or revised application systems and programs in coordination with the Technology Team. The overall objective of this role is to lead applications systems analysis and programming activities.

Requirements

10+ years of relevant experience
Experience in implementing projects
Experience in systems analysis and programming of software applications
Demonstrated Subject Matter Expert (SME) in area(s) of Applications Development
Demonstrated knowledge of client core business functions
Demonstrated leadership, project management, and development skills
Relationship and consensus building skills
Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree preferred

Responsibilities

Lead the design and development of wealth-lending platforms (SBL, margin lending, structured credit), remaining actively hands-on in coding core APIs, distributed services, and orchestration components.
Architect horizontally scalable, cloud-native APIs and microservices that support high-throughput lending workflows, real-time credit decisioning, margin evaluation, and lifecycle servicing.
Design modular, event-driven systems that can be dynamically orchestrated through workflow engines and service choreography patterns to enable flexible product configuration and rapid iteration.
Apply strong analytical thinking and fluid intelligence to decompose complex lending, collateral, margin, and regulatory requirements into clean domain models and extensible service boundaries.
Establish engineering standards across system design, API contracts, resiliency patterns, observability, performance optimization, and secure coding practices.
Guide the team through hands-on code reviews, architecture reviews, and technical mentoring, elevating distributed systems design and scalable service engineering practices.
Ensure services are built for fault tolerance, idempotency, concurrency control, and horizontal elasticity across modern cloud environments.
Partner closely with business, risk, and operations stakeholders to translate evolving lending strategies into scalable, compliant, and high-performance technology solutions.