Lead Technical Architect, Pune - SVP

Job Title: Senior Vice President

Department: Banking Capital Markets and Advisory, Pune

Work Location: Pune, India

We are looking for an experienced Technology Architect at SVP level, to make strategic investment and strengthen our Pune BCMA senior leadership team. The role will focus across our strategic initiatives across Lending initiatives, Lynx and other strategic programs of BCMA and will help to strengthen the architecture understanding, lay increased emphasis on design focus, and help strengthen the technical culture within teams.

The role will be a senior architect, developer profile who will be responsible to establish strong development practices within the team. It will require focus on design, reusability, testability, stability, reliability and performance of the application. The person hired will be responsible for directly working with our QA Lab, DevOps functions and other technical leads across geographies and ensure provide the right level of technical input for the improvement of our product suite. Where needed, the person should be able to augment work force requirement with hands-on development for the product. This role and the person is also expected to bring in global consistency to the process we follow.

The role engage in the day-to-day function of One Connect suite of application development. The role will be based in Pune.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design, build and maintain low latency, high-performance platform, with a focus on client business requirements.
• Proven experience to drive product development and provide technical leadership
• Define all aspects of development from appropriate technology and workflow to coding standards
• Lead initiatives to improve latency, scalability and resiliency of the product.
• Guiding and assisting development teams with architectural blueprints to follow
• Oversee progress of development team to ensure consistency with initial design
• Collaborating as part of a cross functional Agile team to create and enhance software that enables state of the art, next generation client connectivity platform development
• Participate in system builds for various client requirements globally, work closely with engineering and product teams globally for successful delivery of projects.
• Manage multiple teams of professionals to accomplish established goals and conduct personnel duties for team (e.g. performance evaluations, hiring and disciplinary actions)
• Utilize in-depth knowledge of concepts and procedures within own area and basic knowledge of other areas to resolve issues
• Integrate in-depth knowledge of applications development with overall technology function to achieve established goals
• Influence and negotiate with senior leaders across functions, as well as communicate with external parties as 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.

SKILLS REQUIRED

• 15+ years of professional experience including developing deterministic high performance, low latency systems in Java
• Strong knowledge of object oriented programming, data structures and algorithms
• Solid understanding of a variety of programming tools and development platforms
• Experience in complete development lifecycle and designing global systems using Agile Methodology
• Experience in the UI/UX technologies will be a plus
• Prior experience in Capital Markets area will be a plus
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Bachelors or Masters degree in computer science or Electronics/Electrical engineering from reputed College/University