Fixed Income & SFT Tech Delivery Lead (VP)

Overview

In this role you will help modernize Citi’s Fixed Income trading platform by evolving it into a scalable, microservices-based, cloud-enabled system. You will work within the Applications Development team to deliver high-performance, low-latency components that support real-time risk and position data for thousands of users. You will drive architectural strategy, automation, and collaboration with business partners to accelerate time to market. This is a hands-on leadership role with opportunities to mentor, shape standards, and influence critical technology choices across a global platform.

Pay / Benefits

• 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Private medical care & life insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Pension plan
• Paid parental leave

Responsibilities

• Lead or guide developers to achieve team goals and manage personnel duties
• Provide technical oversight across systems and applications
• Develop knowledge of business integrations to align with goals
• Provide evaluative judgment based on data in complex situations
• Create reusable components and services using Citi’s best practices
• Develop high-performance, low-latency applications
• Ensure reliability, scalability and performance of components
• Collaborate with technical and business teams to identify opportunities
• Drive architecture and execute on technical strategy
• Partner with business to evolve architectural roadmap
• Monitor delivery, participate in budget, manage day-to-day staff issues
• Define standards and negotiate with external parties when needed
• Assess risk in decisions and ensure compliance with laws and regulations
• Escalate, manage, and report control issues with transparency
• Supervise others and enforce standards

Key requirements

• Strong commercial experience in Financial Services
• Solid understanding of Fixed Income securities and Security Financing Transactions
• Senior developer with Java/Spring, microservice development, and Java internals (JIT, memory management)
• Extensive experience in cloud-based service delivery
• Experience in microservices architecture for high-volume apps
• Strong written and verbal communication
• Engineering best practices: design patterns, coding standards, unit testing (Mockito, JUnit)
• Ability to build relationships and influence stakeholders
• Self-motivated, organized, autonomous work style
• Proven project management skills
• Bachelor’s degree; Master’s preferred

• Strong communication
• Relationship building
• Self-motivation
• Java/Spring microservices
• Cloud-based deployments
• High-performance, low-latency architectures

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