Senior Full-Stack Application Engineer, Vice President

About Team and Platform:

Citi Futures and Derivatives Clearing Technology supports a rapidly growing business that uses technological innovation to maintain competitive advantage in a constantly evolving market. Working closely with the business, external vendors and internal technology teams, you would build-out and maintain our next generation clearing platforms. You would manage complex projects that will involve everything from incorporating a new functionality within the existing ecosystem, to analyzing new requirements, documenting solutions, managing implementation and testing systems, ensuring that they are fit for purpose. You would regularly work with a range of Business Analysts and high-profile stakeholders.

The Data and Reporting team develops and supports a platform that provides client reporting and feeds other downstream applications within Citi. It provides reporting such as real-time trades, positions, initial and variation margin, positions and balances for external clients and internal users such as traders, operations and sales. A major ongoing initiative is to modernize the existing platform in order to provide scale and to enhance product offerings and new business requirements.

As the development lead for the data and reporting, you will lead the team to deliver best in class technical solutions to meet the needs of our Futures and Clearing business. This includes researching best practices, designing the application architecture, designing the solutions, and delivering our application to the business. The team works closely with cross-functional business users, QA engineers and BAs collaborating to deliver best in class solutions. This role suits experienced architects/developers who have excellent communication and are passionate about driving technical solutions through leadership, excellence, collaboration.

Responsibilities:

• Lead design and development of technical solutions for the data and reporting application utilizing best engineering practices
• Contribute to technical direction and enhancement as a technical expert in development and implementation phases, providing in-depth and sophisticated analyses to define problems and develop innovative solutions
• Work closely with business users, stakeholders, BAs, product managers and other development teams to understand problem space, brainstorm ideas, approaches, and solutions.
• Design and develop software applications using microservices cloud-native architecture to be resilient, stateless, scalable, and testable with automation and reusability as key objectives.
• Contribute to CI/CD implementation using DevOps best practices based on industry and Citi standards and work to implement them.
• Work with key business SMEs to develop an in-depth understanding of their critical data and reporting needs and business impact of existing data quality and data integrity issues on a detailed level
• Contribute to technical direction and strategic decisions as a technical expert in all development and implementation phases, providing in-depth and sophisticated analyses to define problems and develop innovative solutions
• Demonstrate a data-driven approach to problem-solving and decision-making, utilising metrics, and performance indicators to assess team efficiency and identify improvement opportunities.
• Partner with QA team to ensure robust testing framework is utilized for functional and nonfunctional testing for the release cycles.
• Partner with Support team to ensure stability of production environment with proactive monitoring and health checks.
• Partner with other Citi development teams to build APIs, integrations and share components that are critical to our platform’s success.
• Exhibit strong leadership qualities, fostering a positive and collaborative work environment, providing guidance and mentorship to team members, and promoting a culture of continuous learning.
• Work closely with business users, stakeholders, BAs, product managers and other development teams to understand problem space, brainstorm ideas, approaches, and solutions.

Qualifications:

• Strong experience in designing and building best in class enterprise application and data architecture with site engineering excellence
• 6-10 years of strong hands-on experience in leading solution architecture and development including front-end web development and back-end application development with scalable data architecture
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills
• Strong hands-on experience with front-end, back-end and infrastructure technologies including Angular/React, Spring Boot/Cloud, API
• Strong hands-on experience with modern software paradigms including cloud-native (AWS, Docker) and microservices
• Experience with application security best practises (secret management, Oauth/PKI)
• Experience in implementation of DevOps such as CI/CD and modern best practises such as testing frameworks and the SOLID principles; CI/CD tooling, automation of testing tools
• Experience in Business Intelligence reporting tools (e.g. Tableau and Power BI) and Integration with web application using APIs is a plus
• Hands-on development experience with traditional and modern data systems (relational/non-relational databases, cloud/big data platform, data catalogue and governance tools)
• Passion and commitment for adopting new technologies with exploratory mind-set
• Experience as a technical lead for software development and implementation
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum work environment
• Innovative ideas and can-do attitude to work under pressure
• Experience working in the financial services is a plus but not required
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, enabling effective collaboration with cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and management.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience in computer sciences, engineering, math/statistics

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

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Job Family Group:

Technology

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Job Family:

Applications Development

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Time Type:

Full time

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Primary Location:

Jersey City New Jersey United States

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Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:

$142,320.00 - $213,480.00

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.

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Most Relevant Skills

Please see the requirements listed above.

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Other Relevant Skills

For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

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Anticipated Posting Close Date:

Mar 26, 2026

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