Java Engineering Manager - Senior Vice President at Citi

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.

The Java Engineering Manager - Senior Vice President is a senior management level position responsible for accomplishing results through the management of a team or department 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:

• Recruit, recognize and retain teams by providing coaching/mentoring, by eliminating impediments, and offering growth opportunities.

• Manage the stakeholders, partner to develop roadmap, releases / milestones, and be accountable to the delivery.

• Follow through the corporate mandates in product/project management, adhering to corporate policies and procedures, controls, audits, change management etc.

• Provide thought leadership to bring efficiencies across SDLC by planning, keeping track of progress, raising risks, and by taking timely corrective actions.

• Be change agent and lead agile best practices.

• Improve communication by having effective meetings, using optimal communication channels, writing executive summaries, tracking & reporting status/risks.

• Ensure teams are following 100% adherence to IT risk & controls, and best engineering practices.

• Take accountability in providing superior customer service by offering reliable products & services, pro-active maintenance (EOL s/w, h/w, certificates etc.), and quicker incident resolutions.

• Set high standards for the team, guide the teams to continuously improve the productivity.

• Familiarize with AWS cloud, prepare to migrate applications, services, and data to AWS.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of relevant experience in software development having breadth in web applications, enterprise integration, data & analytics.

• Deep expertise building web applications using Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, Angular/React, and Oracle/PostgreSQL technology stack.

• Expertise in enterprise integrations through RESTful APIs, Kafka messaging etc.

• Expertise in Elastic Search, NoSQL databases, and Caching solutions.

• Expertise in designing and optimizing the software solutions for performance and stability.

• Expertise in troubleshooting and problem solving.

• Expertise in site reliability engineering.

• Expertise in Test driven development.

• Expertise in Authentication, Authorization, and Security.

• Familiarity with AWS cloud, prepare to migrate applications, services, and data to AWS.

Education

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a related quantitative field.

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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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Primary Location:

Rutherford New Jersey United States

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Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:

$176,720.00 - $265,080.00

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.

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Most Relevant Skills

Please see the requirements listed above.

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Other Relevant Skills

For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

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Anticipated Posting Close Date:

Jun 22, 2026

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