Wealth Funds Technology Full Stack Engineer, SVP

Citi • Jersey City, NJ

5d • Onsite

About The Position

The Wealth Funds Technology Full Stack Engineer is a senior-level technologist role responsible for leading end‑to‑end technology solutions that support wealth and investment platforms. This position partners closely with senior stakeholders to shape and manage the product roadmap, while owning platform architecture, design, and delivery. The role requires deep technical expertise combined with strong business acumen, including experience supporting investment products such as Mutual Funds, Alternative Investments, Equities, and Fixed Income. The overall objective of this role involves :

Requirements

• 10+ years progressive design & development experience, including 5-7+ years in technical or architectural leadership roles.
• Proven ability to define strategy and drive engineering excellence.
• Deep domain knowledge of investment management products, including Mutual Funds, Hedge Funds, Alternative Investments, Derivatives, and Private-Equity vehicles, with a strong understanding of trade lifecycle, pricing, and NAV processes.
• Experience with wealth funds technologies such as portfolio management systems, order management systems, risk analytics platforms, and fund accounting systems.
• Expertise in Java, J2EE, Spring, Spring Boot, Angular, and Microservices for large-scale application development.
• Hands-on work experience with advanced AI software engineering tools like Devin.AI or similar autonomous AI software agents
• Proficiency in event-driven systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ) and distributed messaging patterns.
• Strong experience building REST APIs (Swagger/OpenAPI), microservices, and SOAP integrations.
• Solid understanding of RDBMS (SQL, PL/SQL) with knowledge in NoSQL databases (e.g., Cassandra, MongoDB, DynamoDB).
• Expertise in CI/CD pipeline development (e.g., Tecton, Harness, Lightspeed, OpenShift) for automated, single-click deployments.
• Deep knowledge of security mechanisms: OAuth2, token-based security, and API security best practices.
• Prior experience with legacy systems (WebSphere, JSP/Servlets, EJB) and leading application modernization efforts to cloud-native architectures.
• Extensive cloud-native development experience on major public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), including serverless and managed services.
• Proven ability to design highly scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant distributed systems.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills to influence technical strategy.
• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree preferred

Responsibilities

• Own the detailed technology architecture, and delivery for large-scale Wealth Funds (Alternative Investment and Traditional Funds) platforms spanning Private Equity, Real Estate, Hedge Funds, Mutual Funds and bespoke Private Investment product, with a strong understanding of trade lifecycle, pricing, and NAV processes.
• Set the technical and architectural north star while remaining hands-on with critical designs, complex problem solving, code reviews, and high-impact delivery decisions.
• Manage the Tech roadmap for the Funds product and manage interactions with business, products and other Tech partners.
• Apply exceptional analytical thinking and fluid intelligence to solve highly ambiguous, multi-dimensional business, risk, and regulatory problems with scalable technology solutions.
• Translate complex wealth- Investment market trends and needs into resilient, extensible, and future-proof platform architectures.
• Lead and scale a large, globally distributed engineering organization, driving clear accountability, strong execution discipline, and a culture of engineering excellence.
• Partner as a trusted technology advisor to senior business, risk, operations, and compliance leaders, influencing product strategy and operating model decisions.
• Drive multi-year platform modernization initiatives, including system consolidation, cloud adoption, API-first and event-driven architectures, and automation of manual lending workflows.
• Balance near-term delivery commitments with long-term platform sustainability, ensuring technical debt, resiliency, and scalability are actively managed.
• Establish and govern engineering standards across security, resiliency, performance, data quality, and regulatory compliance in a highly controlled environment.
• Champion an "everything-as-code" and "codified controls" mindset.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, critical thinking, and the strategic adoption of emerging technologies, including Generative AI.
• Influence and negotiate with senior leaders across functions, as well as communicate with external parties as necessary
• 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 judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.

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