Digital Software Engineering Lead

Citi • Irving, TX

10d • $138,720 - $208,080 • Onsite

About The Position

The Digital Software Engineering Lead is a strategic professional who stays abreast of developments within their field and contributes to directional strategy by considering their application in their job and the business. This role is recognized as a technical authority within an area of the business and requires basic commercial awareness. Typically, multiple individuals within the business possess the same level of subject matter expertise. Developed communication and diplomacy skills are essential for guiding, influencing, and convincing others, particularly colleagues in other areas and occasional external customers. This role has a significant impact on the area through complex deliverables and provides advice and counsel related to the technology or operations of the business. The work impacts an entire area, which eventually affects the overall performance and effectiveness of the sub-function/job family.

Requirements

• 6+ years of relevant experience in an Apps Development (Full Stack Development) role or senior level experience in an Enterprise Architecture role with subject matter expert in one or more areas.
• Expertise in all aspects of technology by understanding broader patterns and techniques as they apply to Citi’s internal and external cloud platforms (AWS, PCF, Akamai).
• Lead resources and serve as a functional SME across the company through advanced knowledge of algorithms, data structures, distributed systems, networking, use of knowledge and experience to lead, architect, and drive broader adoption forward.
• Acquire relevant technology and financial industry skills (AWS PWS) and understand all aspects of NGA technology – including innovative approaches and new opportunities.
• Demonstrate knowledge on automating code quality, code performance, unit testing, and build processing in the CI/CD.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s/University degree, Master’s degree preferred

Responsibilities

• Accountable for executing and driving results on large-scale efforts or multiple smaller efforts and serving as a development lead for most medium and large projects, including expertise with application development methodologies and standards for program analysis, design, coding, testing, debugging, and implementation.
• Accountable for exhibiting a strong understanding of client core business functions.
• Support situations where end-user consultation is required to identify system function specifications and incorporate them into overall system design and delivery.
• Utilize comprehensive knowledge of multiple areas within technology to achieve technological objectives.
• Work independently with little or no guidance from more senior developers, making decisions that will have a significant, measurable impact on the business goals for the client organization.
• Play a significant role in team discussions with TPMs and engineering managers to determine potential risks to a schedule.
• Assist in the planning and managing of application development assignments, including understanding and analyzing both technical and business risks and impact.
• Effectively communicate risks to business owners to enable informed decisions.
• Provide guidance on architecturally significant efforts during the pre-planning phase, ensuring principles and best practices are followed prior to initiation of work, closely monitoring and evaluating Digital roadmaps and their impacts.
• Publish design review extensions and provide documented guidance aligned to sprint plans and timelines.
• Participate in the design review board to focus on the design process, search for generic patterns, and share best practices across the organization.
• Publish design patterns across lines of business and domain commonalities.
• Drive design reviews for Next Gen Architecture (NGA) and Plan of Record (POR) projects, supporting design principles and best practices.
• Participate in micro services and NGA code reviews.
• Empower SDEs and their teams by mentoring and coaching.
• Have a comprehensive understanding of the business domain, systems, and products, including accountabilities, boundaries, limitations, scale factors, and the rationale behind architectural decisions.
• Provide a long-term perspective for business and technology choices, using technical judgment to vet architecture.
• Direct teams on developing and delivering systems that are efficient in resource usage (hardware, runtime, performance, load, and memory requirements).
• Responsible for broader design decisions and development of long-term strategies that significantly influence the development process and standards.
• Accountable for Design Reviews of Agile and Plan of Record (POR) projects, as well as Code Reviews of Next Gen Architecture (NGA) projects, elaborating, promoting, and communicating Design Patterns applicable to NGA architectures and solutions.
• Accountable for providing architectural guidance to SDEs based on best practices and in alignment with CTO guidelines and platform.
• Drive clarity and work with complete independence when business and/or technical strategy is not defined.
• Provide architectural guidance and conduct design reviews and code reviews based on projects assigned to your LOB.
• Accountable for the overall strategy and for driving teams inside and outside of your organization to deliver expected results.
• Drive discussions with business and technical stakeholders that lead to timely decisions.
• Participate in discussions to drive smart trade-off decisions balancing efforts, delivery timelines, features, and technical constraints.
• Identify and remove blockers and find the path forward in challenging situations.
• Create plans with a clear path to delivery and solve for dependencies between agile and waterfall delivery efforts.
• Help teams organize for delivery while maximizing resources for the greater good of the Digital organization.
• Understand engineering best practices and apply them to the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Accountable for Design Reviews for Citi Agile and POR projects as well as Code Reviews for the NGA projects.
• Elaborate, bring, and communicate clear metrics on Design Reviews, Code Reviews, CI/CD, and Design Patterns adoption.
• Communicate progress, anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, and identify, assess, track, and mitigate issues/risks at multiple levels.
• Recognize discordant views and participate in constructive dialogue to resolve them.
• Demonstrate the ability to implement continuous improvement and the induction of new technology.
• Demonstrate examples of influence in scrum teams beyond your own area of focus.
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating 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 judgment, and escalating, managing, and reporting control issues with transparency.

Benefits

• medical
• dental & vision coverage
• 401(k)
• life, accident, and disability insurance
• wellness programs
• paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior