Tech Lead – Clearing Technology – Vice President

Citi • Jersey City, NJ

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About The Position

We are seeking a talented and passionate Tech Lead to join our OTC Clearing NAM Scrum team. You will provide technical leadership, promote engineering best practices, and implement solutions for our industry-leading, best-in-class OTC Clearing platform.
This role is for an experienced technical lead who is passionate about driving technical strategy through leadership, collaboration, and hands-on implementation. You will lead the team in delivering robust solutions to meet the needs of our OTC Clearing business.
Why Join Our Team?

Drive Global Impact: Take a leading role on the #1 OTC Clearing platform in the world, a mission-critical system at the heart of global finance.
Solve Complex Challenges: Design and build a scalable, resilient, and cloud-native architecture capable of handling high trading volumes and new business requirements.

Lead a Talented Team: Mentor and guide a skilled, team of developers, fostering a culture of engineering excellence and innovation.
Work with Modern Technology: Utilize a modern tech stack, including Java, Kubernetes, Docker, and Kafka, to build cutting-edge financial technology solutions.

Requirements

• 10+ years of hands-on software development experience.
• 5+ years of experience as a technical lead.
• Proven experience working in the financial services sector.
• Demonstrated experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Expert-level skills in Java development.
• Expert experience designing and developing robust, scalable, and resilient enterprise-level applications.
• Strong experience with cloud-native technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker.
• Experience with event-driven architectures leveraging Apache Kafka.
• Experience designing and developing databases on an RDBMS platform.
• Proficiency in API development and application security best practices (e.g., OAuth, TLS, PKI).
• Familiarity with DevOps best practices and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• A passion for adopting industry best practices and new technologies with an exploratory mindset.
• Innovative ideas and a can-do attitude.
• Strong problem-solving skills and an ability to manage tight deadlines or unexpected priority changes.
• Willingness to ask questions, challenge the status quo, and seek out answers.
• Ability to work independently, multi-task, take ownership, and drive strategy.
• Impeccable integrity and judgment.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Distributed Caching technologies (e.g., Redis, Gemfire).
• Direct experience in OTC Clearing.
• Experience with modern UI development frameworks (e.g., Angular).

Responsibilities

• Technical Guidance and Mentoring: Provide technical direction and mentorship to developers on the scrum team.
• Quality Advocacy: Promote best practices for engineering excellence in coding, testing, build, deployment, and the maintenance of high-quality software.
• Solution Implementation: Act as an active contributor to design and a hands-on implementer of code.
• Agile Mindset: Actively participate in scrum activities such as sprint planning and refinement, offering technical insights for backlog items.
• Strategic Delivery: Deliver best-in-class technical solutions based on strategic Engineering Excellence principles and practices.
• Collaboration: Partner with the Scrum Master, Product Owner, QA, Architects and other global team members to successfully deliver technical solutions and reusable components.
• Stakeholder Management: Work with Business, Operations, and Production Support stakeholders to understand business needs and deliver effective solutions.
• Learning mindset: Keep up with the latest development practices in the industry and Citi with an eye to implement them in our team such as – Gen AI, DORA metrics, etc

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: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed