Java Applications Development Lead - Hybrid (AVP)

Applications Development Manager (Java)– Assistant Vice President Apply (opens in new window) Job Req Id: 26959146 Location(s): Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India Job Type: Hybrid Posted: May. 12, 2026 Discover your future at Citi Working at Citi is far more than just a job. A career with us means joining a team of more than 230,000 dedicated people from around the globe. At Citi, you’ll have the opportunity to grow your career, give back to your community and make a real impact. Job Overview Unified Trade Process System is a dynamic and high-performing division of Citi’s Markets business. We work on business critical high availability application solutions across 80+ countries. Our applications are considered amongst the best-in-class within the industry, with our eCommerce and analytical products continuing to win industry awards year after year. The team works closely with end users gaining direct exposure to the fast paced world of capital markets trading. As part of an expansion, the team is looking to hire top-performing technologists with proven track record at Team Lead level, reporting to the Development Project Manager. Development Value : This position gives an excellent opportunity for the selected candidate to play a significant role in an exciting and critical business within Citi. As a member of our highly acclaimed Technology team, this role provides the opportunity to participate in and shape the expansion and pre-eminence of our Business working together with our team of highly skilled technologists. We believe it is even more special to do this as part of Citi, a premier financial institution that is one of the biggest and best in the market, and as a part of our team that has a high visibility for our work both inside our larger organization as well as in the global Capital Markets world. The position will enable you to leverage Citi’s incomparable geographical reach, product richness, and engineering expertise and to translate these into a successful and top-of-the-class product offering for our customers. Responsibilities : Develop common, reusable components and services utilizing Citi’s best practices Create high performance, low latency applications leveraging existing Citi framework Ensure strong reliability, scalability and performance of our components Liaise with technical and business teams to collaborate on identifying opportunities and solutions Drive architecture and execute on our technical strategy Partner with business to continue to evolve our architecture roadmap beyond near term objectives Coordinate development with both internal technology teams and business Adhere to engineering standards and strive for best in class Assist in third line support during core trading hours Motivate, mentor and lead technical teams, evaluate their delivery, guide the members to deliver quality output with responsible delegation and build a high performance team Together with the partner teams, user community, business analysts and Tech management contribute to innovative & best-in-class solutions for our business Recommended Qualifications : 8+ years hands on experience Strong Knowledge in one of the project management methodologies Experience in designing and implementing Multi-tier applications Excellent analytic & problem solving skills Excellent knowledge in troubleshooting, performance tuning and best practices Experience in Messaging, failover designing and recovery planning Experience in delivering high quality applications Experience in project risk identification techniques, mitigation and escalation Familiar with all phases of the systems lifecycle, from analysis, design and development through to support Experience in developing performance sensitive multi-tier Java/JEE applications Knowledge of the FI market and products is very desirable. Skills : Self Motivated, Strong interpersonal and articulation skills (spoken and written) Excellent persuasive, influencing and negotiation skills Outstanding analytic and problem-solving skills; innovative and solutions oriented Technical : Excellent knowledge in Java (JDK 1.8 or more) Experience with SpringBoot, KAFKA, GRPC, ECS, Mongo, REST API, JUNIT and SQL/PLSQL Basics Java performance tuning Kubernetes, Openshift, Gradle, Splunk, Prometheus Knowledge of CI/CD Pipeline, Familiarity with TeamCity, UDeploy, Jenkins, SonarQube Experience with Design Patterns, Code Review, Coding standard, Unit testing with JNIT/Mockito Education : Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience ------------------------------------------------------ Job Family Group: Technology ------------------------------------------------------ Job Family: Applications Development ------------------------------------------------------ Time Type: Full time ------------------------------------------------------ Most Relevant Skills Please see the requirements listed above. ------------------------------------------------------ Other Relevant Skills For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter. ------------------------------------------------------ Citi is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law. 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