Senior Core Java Backend Lead - Vice President

Citi

Pune, INonsitePosted Jul 10, 2026
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About the role

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Job Overview

The Applications Development Senior Manager is a senior management level position responsible for accomplishing results through the management of a team or department in an effort to establish and implement new or revised application systems and programs in coordination with the Technology team. The overall objective of this role is to drive applications systems analysis and programming activities.

Responsibilities:

Manage one or more Applications Development teams in an effort to accomplish established goals as well as conduct personnel duties for team (e.g. performance evaluations, hiring and disciplinary actions)

Utilize in-depth knowledge and skills across multiple Applications Development areas to provide technical oversight across systems and applications

Review and analyze proposed technical solutions for projects

Contribute to formulation of strategies for applications development and other functional areas

Develop comprehensive knowledge of how areas of business integrate to accomplish business goals

Provide evaluative judgment based on analysis of factual data in complicated and unique situations

Impact the Applications Development area through monitoring delivery of end results, participate in budget management, and handling day-to-day staff management issues, including resource management and allocation of work within the team/project

Ensure essential procedures are followed and contribute to defining standards negotiating with external parties when necessary

Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular 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, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.

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

Knowledge/Experience:

12+ years of industry experience

Experience of Agile development and scrums

Strong knowledge on Core Java, Spring(Core, Boot etc),

Expertise in Web API implementations (Web services, Restful services etc.) .

Good understanding of Linux or Unix operating systems.

Strong knowledge on build (Ant/Maven), continuous integration (Jenkins), code quality analysis (SonarQube) and unit and integration testing (JUnit)

Exposure to SCM tool like bitbucket .

Candidates with strong knowledge of Docker / Kubernetes / OpenShift..

Strong knowledge of distributed messaging platforms like (Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ etc)

Proven experience integrating and leveraging Generative AI tools and Large Language Models (LLMs) to enhance developer productivity and application capabilities.

Good understanding of Trino will be a plus..

Skills:

Hands on coding experience on Core Java and Spring

Hands on coding experience in python is a plus.

Strong analysis and design skills including OO design patterns

Solid understanding of SOA concepts, RESTful API design

Ability to produce professional, technically-sound, and visually-appealing presentations and architecture designs

Experience creating high level technical/process documentation and presentations for audiences at various levels. Experience writing/editing technical, business, and process documentation in an Information Technology/Engineering environment

Must be able to understand requirements & convert to technical design and code

Knowledge of source code control systems, unit test framework, build and deployment tools

Experienced with large scale programs rollout and ability to create and maintain detailed WBS and project plans.

Education:

Bachelor’s degree/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:

Applications Development

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Time Type:

Full time

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Most Relevant Skills

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Other Relevant Skills

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