Posted Date
5/01/2025
Description
Life at Citi
At Citi we’re not just building technology, we’re building the future of banking. With thousands of employees located around the globe, we’re an international company encompassing a broad range of teams, roles, and cultures. The best way to think about Citi Consumer Technology is that we’re a tech company inside a bank. We build software in an Agile environment that impacts millions via consumer applications, customer service channels and internal software. This includes mobile apps and websites that help our customers manage their money, desktop software that allows our customer service agents to provide help and advice, and internal databases, microservices or tools that teams at Citi rely upon every day.
As a Principal Engineer, you’ll stay abreast of the latest trends in the field and adapt them for application at Citi. You’ll also serve as a strategic partner to architecture, platform, and governance. Using your interpersonal skills, you’ll step in as an ambassador for change and serve as an example for engineering culture. As a communication expert, you’ll use diplomacy to negotiate internally, often at the senior level – garnering influence along the way. You’ll leverage your deep technical knowledge to guide technical strategy and resource allocation.
Tech Stacks
- Microservices: Java, Maven, Spring Framework, Cloud Platforms (AWS, OpenShift, Google cloud etc.)
- Web: Angular (latest version), TypeScript, HTML, JavaScript, CSS
- Legacy Architectures
Who You Are
Employees who are most successful in this role demonstrate the following characteristics:
- Use deep technical knowledge to understand the latest programming languages and research new architectural principles
- Promote teamwork and influences the team through mentorship and modeling leadership behaviors
- Effectively communicate with stakeholders verbally and in writing
- Take initiative to follow through on commitments
- Drive and deliver results without waiving quality standards
- Maintain a customer-centric mentality throughout the development lifecycle
- Anticipate, identify, and rectify issues with a sense of urgency while adhering to compliance standards
- Use a creative and analytical approach to identify dependencies, pinpoint software issues, and solve complex problems in an ambiguous environment
What You’ll Bring
- 10+ years of experience in a large-scale distributed architecture or equivalent platforms
- Passion for mentoring and training others in relevant tech stacks or processes
- High-level expertise in all aspects of technology by understanding broader patterns and techniques as they apply to Citi’s internal and external cloud platforms (AWS, OpenShift, Akamai)
- Effective architecture leader with demonstrated experience in working with internal stakeholders and external vendors
What You’ll Do
- Write secure, stable, testable, and maintainable code
- Participate in and contribute to Engineering Excellence programs as a coach, mentor, and subject matter expert
- Collaborate with internal partners to create reliable, scalable, and high-performance services and architectures
- Create internal guides and whitepapers for performance and response times, memory usage, garbage collection, and other aspects of applications
- Demonstrate full understanding of the mechanics, boundaries, and scale factors of your dependencies, as well as motivations behind key architectural decisions
- Initiate large, complex projects and coordinate them across teams
- Utilize comprehensive knowledge of multiple technological disciplines to influence the teams responsible for architecting, implementing, and delivering continuous improvement to products
- Prioritize, plan, and assign large, complex projects for the teams
- Advise on code reviews of all applications pre-production
- Experiment and test out new design patterns, tools, or software solutions for problems, and drive adoption strategy for engineering teams
QUALIFICATIONS:
- 10+ years of relevant experience in an Enterprise Architecture role with subject matter expertise in one or more areas
- Exhibit expertise in all aspects of technology by understanding broader patterns and techniques as they apply to Citi’s internal and external cloud platforms (AWS, OpenShift, Akamai, Google cloud)
- Effective Citi architecture leader working with internal stakeholders and supported by external vendors to enable the best solution: secure, performant and scalable.
- Experience in Microservices: Java, Maven, Spring Framework, Cloud Platforms (AWS, OpenShift, Google cloud etc.)
- Experience in Web: Angular (latest version), TypeScript, HTML, JavaScript, CSS
EDUCATION:
- Bachelor’s/University degree, Master’s degree preferred
- JAVA/Angular development
- Architecture design experience
- Cloud platform experience
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