Applications Development Technology Lead Analyst, Vice President

Our mission is to help developers navigate, simplify and stabilize Citi tools and processes so they can put their time, energy, and passion into achieving their goals, developing quality products, making development at Citi a rewarding and satisfying experience.

How We Will Work

• We will treat developers as clients.
• We will take away difficult, non-developer-centric activities from our teams, and handle those activities for them in a structured, consistent fashion, with clear timelines and regular updates
• We will build a knowledge base of these tasks, so that we can respond promptly and efficiently
• We will support all communication styles that work for developers - chat, mail, calls.
• We won't ask developers to raise tickets, but we will raise them ourselves to track our own productivity - and we will use the statistics that we generate, to drive automation of the key developer pain points

Responsibilities:

• Set up and configure bare metal / virtualized / cloud infrastructure for business applications
• Help development teams on-board to modern CI/CD pipelines
• Improve high availability, resilience, observability, maintainability and security of applications with industry standard and/or bank's internal solutions.
• Automating application releases, deployment, configuration and other aspects of software development lifecycle.
• Enabling connectivity between various components in distributed networks.
• Help migrating and upgrading systems to newer infrastructure.
• Promote practical, risk-based Information Security solutions.
• Act as an initial gatekeeper for remediation requests from Information Security teams, ensuring accurate tracking, timely closure of false positives, and appropriate challenge of unnecessary CAP proliferation.
• Ensure Checkmarx and Black Duck findings are prioritized according to actual firm risk.
• Support developer onboarding to lightweight and effective security tooling at both pre-commit and CI pipeline stages.
• Ensure acceptable response times and reliability for security systems and related data.
• Streamline and standardize infrastructure-related processes.
• Coordinate firewall requests and ensure they are handled predictably and consistently.
• Collaborate with Unix, Wintel, database, and other infrastructure teams to deliver requests and improve overall service quality.
• Establish, track, and enforce SLAs with infrastructure partners.
• Challenge processes that negatively impact developer productivity while maintaining security and control standards.
• Simplify server provisioning and cloud adoption processes.
• Drive continuous improvement in tooling across the development ecosystem.
• Partner with CTI, Developer Tools, and GIDA teams to improve and automate internal processes.
• Participate in the automation of manual or error-prone tasks (e.g., WAIS ticket creation).
• Monitor uptime and performance of key services such as Bitbucket, Artifactory, JIRA, Confluence, and uDeploy, and drive remediation or improvement where needed.
• Support the delivery of performant development tools in partnership with CTI (including Confluence, ServiceNow, JIRA, Artifactory, and Bitbucket).
• Ensure safe, consistent onboarding to Citi-approved identity management solutions and provide guidance on effective usage.
• Advocate for automation-first approaches and APIs over manual, process-heavy workflows

• 5-10 years of relevant experience in an Engineering or DevOps role.
• Strong Unix/Linux skills at a system administration level.
• Strong knowledge of computer networking with hands-on troubleshooting experience.
• Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Perl, Python, PowerShell).
• Experience with Java build tools (Gradle/Maven preferred) and relational databases (Oracle/PostgreSQL preferred).
• Experience with CI/CD tools and pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, TeamCity, Artifactory).
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, microservices architectures, and virtualization.
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills.
• Hands-on mindset with the ability to tackle complex, ambiguous technical problems.
• Strong planning, organization, and prioritization skills.
• Ability to work independently, multitask effectively, and take ownership of initiatives.

Preferred

• Familiarity with ITIL practices (e.g., change and incident management).
• Experience with messaging middleware (e.g., Tibco, Solace, Kafka).
• Experience with one or more programming languages such as Java, Python, or Go., * Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience

$113,840.00 - $170,760.00

In addition to salary, Citi's offerings may also include, for eligible employees, discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards. Citi offers competitive employee benefits, including: medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs. Citi also offers paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays. For additional information regarding Citi employee benefits, please visit citibenefits.com. Available offerings may vary by jurisdiction, job level, and date of hire.

Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management. As a bank with a brain and a soul, Citi creates economic value that is systemically responsible and, in our clients', best interests. As a financial institution that touches every region of the world and every sector that shapes your daily life, our Enterprise Operations & Technology teams are charged with a mission that rivals any large tech company. Our technology solutions are the foundations of everything we do from keeping the bank safe, managing global resources, and providing the technical tools our workers need to be successful to designing our digital architecture and ensuring our platforms provide a first-class customer experience. We reimagine client and partner experiences to deliver excellence through secure, reliable, and efficient services. Our commitment to diversity includes a workforce that represents the clients we serve from all walks of life, backgrounds, and origins. We foster an environment where the best people want to work. We value and demand respect for others, promote individuals based on merit, and ensure opportunities for personal development are widely available to all. Ideal candidates are innovators with well-rounded backgrounds who bring their authentic selves to work and complement our culture of delivering results with pride. If you are a problem solver who seeks passion in your work, come join us. We'll enable growth and progress together.