Emerging Technology - UI Lead Engineer (VP) - Hybrid
Irving, TX 
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Posted 17 days ago
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Brief Description of the Organization

Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Our mission is to serve as a trusted partner to our clients by responsibly providing financial services that enable growth and economic progress. We strive to earn and maintain our clients' and the public's trust by constantly adhering to the highest ethical standards and making a positive impact on the communities we serve.

Citi's Personal Banking and Wealth Management (PBWM) division is building a purpose-driven team to serve its globally diverse, digitally forward customers in top cities around the world. We're looking for exceptional candidates who think digitally and differently, resolve problems in unconventional ways and strive to provide a remarkable experience for our clients.

Overview of the Role

Citi's PBWM Technology (PBWMT) organization serves the PBWM global suite of products providing a full range of innovative and comprehensive set of services. Our businesses also offer industry-leading advanced technology, a strong worldwide presence, and a powerful global franchise.


About Citi Global Wealth
Citi Global Wealth (CGW) is focused on serving the needs of clients across the entire wealth spectrum. By building on the strengths and capabilities across Citi, we intend to transform the way we serve clients across the wealth continuum, delivering the full range of high tech and high touch capabilities Citi can offer, and ultimately help them achieve their goals.

Citi Global Wealth serves over 500,000 clients across its global footprint in Asia, Europe, Mexico, and North America. It delivers the full range of wealth products across investments, banking, lending, insurance, trust services and financial planning & advice.

Citi Global Wealth propositions are delivered via tailored offerings across the Citigold, Citi Private Client, International Private Bank and Citi Private Bank brands.

About the Role

The Emerging Technology & Innovation Group serves as change catalyst for the Global Wealth Management division to drive innovation strategy, implement emerging technology, partner with best-in-class solutions. Our shared mission is to reinvent wealth management, by providing our clients with the tools, authority, and inspiration to achieve greater relevance today, and continued significance in the future.

The UI Lead Engineer (Digital S/W Eng Lead Analyst) is a strategic professional who stays abreast of developments within own field and contributes to directional strategy by considering their application in own job and the business. Recognized technical authority for an area within the business. Requires basic commercial awareness. There are typically multiple people within the business that provide the same level of subject matter expertise. Developed communication and diplomacy skills are required in order to guide, influence and convince others, in particular colleagues in other areas and occasional external customers. Significant impact on the area through complex deliverables. Provides advice and counsel related to the technology or operations of the business. Work impacts an entire area, which eventually affects the overall performance and effectiveness of the sub-function/job family.

Responsibilities:

  • Accountable for executing and driving results on large-scale efforts or multiple smaller efforts and serving as a development lead for most medium and large projects. This includes expertise with application development methodologies and standards for program analysis, design, coding, testing, debugging and implementation.
  • Accountable for exhibiting a strong understanding of client core business functions.
  • Required to support situations in which end user consultation is required to identify system function specifications and incorporate them into overall system design and delivery. Additionally, utilize comprehensive knowledge of multiple areas within technology to achieve technological objectives.
  • Independent work style, requiring little or no guidance by more senior developers. Decisions will make a significant, measurable impact on the business goals for the client organization. During team discussions you will play a significant role with TPMs and engineering managers to determine potential risks to a schedule.
  • Assist in the planning and managing of application development assignments generally involving large budgets, cross functional projects, or multiple projects. This includes effectively understanding and analyzing both technical and business risks and impact.
  • Expected to effectively communicate those risks to the business owners, so that they can make informed decisions.
  • Accountable for providing guidance on architecturally significant efforts during the preplanning phase and ensuring principles and best practices are followed prior to initiation of work. In doing so, closely watch and evaluate Digital roadmaps, including impacts to support upcoming journeys.
  • Publish design review extensions, and provide documented guidance aligned to sprint plans and timelines.
  • Be part of the design review board that will focus on the design process, search for generic patterns, and, at the same time, share best practices across the organization.
  • Publish design patterns across lines of business and domain commonalities. Drive design reviews for Next Gen Architecture (NGA) and Plan of Record (POR) projects, supporting design principles and best practices.
  • Participate in code reviews, implement best practice and Citi Web development coding standard.
  • Empower SDEs and their teams by mentoring and coaching.
  • Have a comprehensive understanding of the business domain, the systems, and the products in your space. Understand their accountabilities, boundaries, limitations, scale factors and the reasons behind architectural decisions.
  • Provide a long-term perspective for business and technology choices; using technical judgment to vet architecture as required.
  • Able to direct teams on how to develop and deliver systems that are efficient with resource usage such as hardware, runtime, performance, load, and memory requirements.
  • Responsible for broader design decisions and development of long-term strategies that significantly influence the development process and standards.
  • Accountable for Design Reviews of Agile and Plan of Record (POR) projects as well as accountable for Code Reviews of Next Gen Architecture (NGA) projects and are expected to elaborate, promote, and communicate Design Patterns applicable to NGA architectures and solutions.
  • Accountable for providing architectural guidance to the SDE's based on best practices and in alignment with CTO guidelines and platform.
  • Drive clarity and work with complete independence as business and or technical strategy is not defined.
  • Provide the corresponding architectural guidance, and conduct design reviews and code reviews based on the projects assigned to your LOB. The product definition and technical planning is out of scope.
  • Accountable for the overall strategy and for driving the teams inside and outside of your organization to deliver expected results. Drive mindful discussion with business and technical stakeholders that lead to timely decisions. Participate in discussions to drive smart trade-off decisions that balance efforts, delivery timelines, features, and technical constraints. Identify and remove blockers and always find the path forward in challenging situations.
  • Create plans that have a clear path to delivery. Solve for dependencies between agile and waterfall delivery efforts. Help your teams organize for delivery while maximizing resources for the greater good of the Digital organization. Understand engineering best practices and apply best practices to the software development lifecycle (SDLC)
  • Accountable for Design Reviews for Citi Agile and POR projects as well as Code Reviews for the NGA projects. Accountable for providing architectural guidance to the SDE's based on best practices and in alignment with CTO guidelines and platform. Elaborate, promote, and communicate Design Patterns applicable to NGA architectures and solutions.
  • Elaborate, bring, and communicate clear metrics on Design Reviews, Code Reviews, CI/CD and Design Patterns adoption.
  • Communicate progress, anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, identify, assess, track, and mitigate issues/risks at multiple levels. Recognize discordant views and take part in constructive dialog to resolve them.
  • Demonstrate the ability to implement continuous improvement and the induction of new technology. Demonstrate examples of influence in scrum teams beyond your own area of focus.
  • Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating 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.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

  • 6+ years commercial Web based Application development experience using React, Angular/Node.js
  • Knowledge of React Native, iOS and Android development is added advantage.
  • Should have integration experience on Java, Spring Boot Micro Service.
  • Deep knowledge on design patters including MVC, MVVM and VIPER with a focus on Test Driven Development in a large, enterprise environment among teams of android, iOS and backend Java Spring Boot Micro Service engineers.
  • Solid grasp of algorithms, performance management and real-time communication.
  • Understanding of E2E encryption process on web app.
  • Knowledge of test automation with test frameworks like Espresso, Mockito, code quality/coverage tools like Sonar, experience with deploying applications in a DevOps environment leveraging CI/CD tools.
  • Experience in developing commonly used dynamic UI components across the app.
  • Investment/Wealth domain experience preferred.
  • Demonstrated skill and passion for operational excellence.
  • Customer focused mindset, taking pride in creating and owning an informative data-driven journey.
  • Proficiency in web technologies such as JSON, XML, Apache Nginx, HTTP/3.
  • Proficiency with mobile development such as Flutter/iOS/Android is a plus.
  • Experience with agile development.
  • Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication (example: ability to translate business use cases to tech specs, working with diverse project teams, and developing relationships with vendors).
  • Experience with Public Cloud Platform (AWS/Azure)

Education:

  • Bachelor's/University degree or equivalent experience.
  • Master's degree preferred.

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:

Digital Software Engineering

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Time Type:

Full time

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Primary Location:

Irving Texas United States

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Primary Location Salary Range:

$134,090.00 - $201,140.00

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Job Summary
Start Date
As soon as possible
Employment Term and Type
Regular, Full Time
Required Education
Bachelor's Degree
Required Experience
6+ years
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