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

+ Work with stakeholders throughout the organization to identify opportunities for leveraging company data to drive business solutions.

+ Develop large scale solutions to solve complex problems with data from multiple areas and of numerous types

+ Identify and architect solutions to improve the analytics setup across the big data ecosystem, streaming solutions, caching and containerization solutions

+ Knowledge and capability of dealing with ML models and data science solutions

+ Follow Citis engineering standards for different phases of software development

+ Coordinate with different functional teams to implement models and monitor outcome

**Qualifications:**

+ 5-10 years of relevant experience

+ Strong software engineering and big data architecture knowledge

+ Experience as Applications Development Manager

+ Experience as senior level in an Applications Development role

+ Stakeholder and people management experience

+ Demonstrated leadership skills

+ Proven project management skills

+ Basic knowledge of industry practices and standards

+ Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication

**Responsibilities:**

+ Work with stakeholders throughout the organization to identify opportunities for leveraging company data to drive business solutions.

+ Develop large scale solutions to solve complex problems with data from multiple areas and of numerous types

+ Identify and architect solutions to improve the analytics setup across the big data ecosystem, streaming solutions, caching and containerization solutions

+ Knowledge and capability of dealing with ML models and data science solutions

+ Follow Citis engineering standards for different phases of software development

+ Coordinate with different functional teams to implement models and monitor outcomes

**Qualifications:**

+ A minimum of 8-10 years of experience

+ Excellent communication skills for coordinating across teams and working with clients

+ Experience of Agile development and scrums

+ Banking and securities domain knowledge would be an added advantage

+ Strong software engineering and big data architecture knowledge

**Skills Required**

+ Experience working across the entire SDLC lifecycle

+ Strong analytical skills and problem-solving ability. Capable of breaking down complex problems, architect solutions and work to implement them

+ Experience with distributed data/computing tools: Map/Reduce, Hadoop, Hive, Spark etc.

+ Ability to handle multiple complex projects simultaneously

+ Experience with cloud data infrastructure and Docker & Kubernetes

+ Advanced exposure to data visualization tools

+ Strong problem-solving skills with an emphasis on data analysis, and out of the box thinking

+ Experience using statistical computer languages (Python, SQL, R etc.) to mine data and draw insights from large data sets.

+ Familiarity with ML models and being able to read them, working with clients

+ Experience visualizing/presenting data for stakeholders using Seaborn, Plotly, Bokeh, Dash etc.

+ Write code, deploy scripts, unit test, check code to source code repository, and monitor delivery pipeline familiarity with git, Udeploy and Teamcity

+ Conduct testing, deployment, and production activities of the team to ensure production stability, applying the guidelines provided by the chapters

+ Ability to deal with multiple stakeholders and follow through on open issues.

+ Willingness to learn new languages and methodologies.

+ Experience working with business partners and engineers to gather, understand, and bridge definitions and requirements.

+ An innate desire to deliver and a strong sense of accountability for your work.

**Education:**

+ Bachelors degree/University degree or equivalent experience

+ Masters degree preferred