Principal Engineer Group Manager - Senior Vice President

Citi • Jersey City, NJ

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About The Position

The Principal Engineer Group Manager is a senior management level position within Citi’s payments team. This role will drive the technical vision & implementation supporting eCommerce. This role will cover the end to end technical stack from the core API’s supporting Citi’s clients to the integrations and infrastructure we build to provide a complete eCommerce suite of capabilities. As a specialist in design and development, you will apply your skill and experience within fast-paced operations centric environment towards developing architecture and design for the regulatory platform at large.

Requirements

• Strong hands-on lead developer with technical ability having 10+ years of design & development experience.
• Practitioner and Advocate of CLEAN code practice.
• practitioner of AI tools in driving productivity and efficiencies.
• Experience in design and development of medium to large-scale applications using open-source tech stack - Spring boot, Microservices, Kafka.
• Strong Java skills.
• Experience with databases: MongoDB
• Experience in writing unit test and integration test using standard frameworks, ensuring minimized technical debt.
• Experience in building CI CD pipeline and single click deployment -Tecton, Harness, Lightspeed, Openshift
• Ability to drive engineering deliveries and handle multiple concurrent initiatives.
• Functional and Technical Specs documentation.
• Experience with testing concepts (TDD, BDD) and Junit
• Curious mindset.
• Able to identify and solve problems effectively.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Pragmatic, and a creative approach to managing risk.
• An advocate of inclusion and diversity in every way.
• A growth mindset and willingness to learn and adapt in a fast-paced environment.
• Shows enthusiasm and develops trust through empathy.
• Passionate about site reliability engineering and its impact on product development.
• Connected to latest technologies, like Generative AI, and keen to put them in practice.
• A self-starter with the ability to work effectively in teams and remotely
• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree preferred

Responsibilities

• Act as a visionary and strategist for solution/application/system across the platform.
• Provide expertise to identify and translate system requirement into software design artifacts.
• High level of expertise in programming and solving problems.
• Drive experiments, PoC to assess new solutions /application paths.
• To work proactively & independently to address project requirements, and articulate issues/challenges at appropriate time to address project delivery risks.
• Follow industry wide best practices to minimize technical debt of software deliverables.
• Interface and coordinate tasks with internal and external technical resources.
• Collaborate to provide estimates, develop overall implementation solutions/application plan, and serve as a lead as required, to implement the installation, customization, and integration efforts.

Benefits

• In addition to salary, Citi’s offerings may also include, for eligible employees, discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards.
• Citi offers competitive employee benefits, including: medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs.
• Citi also offers paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays.
• For additional information regarding Citi employee benefits, please visit citibenefits.com.
• Available offerings may vary by jurisdiction, job level, and date of hire.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees