Application Development Manager, Trading Platforms, Vice President
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About the Role
Citi seeks a Vice President, Application Development Manager for Trading Platforms to lead the design and development of high-performance trading applications. You will manage a team, drive engineering excellence with AI-assisted tools, and ensure platform reliability.
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Responsibilities
- Architect, design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable, and high performance applications supporting MTF
- Lead the design of distributed, fault tolerant, real time systems for high volume, low latency trade processing
- Champion the use of AI assisted coding tools to accelerate developer productivity and improve code quality
- Ensure code is clean, maintainable, and testable by adhering to SOLID principles and design patterns
- Actively contribute to hands on coding, code reviews, and refactoring
- Champion Test Driven Development (TDD) and high unit test coverage
- Drive the adoption of automated testing frameworks across all test layers
- Implement and enforce secure coding practices with AI driven vulnerability scanning
- Embed CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices into the team's delivery workflow
- Mentor engineers on AI tool usage, prompt engineering, and responsible AI practices
- Partner with architects and cross functional teams to design scalable, distributed, and AI ready systems
- Drive capacity planning, technical roadmap execution, and engineering delivery commitments
Requirements
- Deep expertise in Java for production grade backend applications
- Proficiency in Python for data pipelines, AI/ML integration, scripting, and automation
- Hands on experience with microservices architecture
- Hands on experience with Kafka for real time event streaming
- Strong proficiency in Oracle (SQL) and MongoDB (NoSQL)
- Hands on experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and Docker
- Strong proficiency in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with AI assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot)
- Strong experience in Agile/SAFe frameworks
- Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
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Job Overview
- This role is for an engineer at heart who has grown into a leader.
- Stays close to the code and actively participates in design, review, and technical problem solving.
- Thinks AI first by actively seeking opportunities to apply AI and GenAI to engineering and operational challenges.
- Owns outcomes by taking full accountability for platform quality, reliability, and delivery commitments.
- Thrives in complexity: comfortable navigating the technical and operational complexity of mission critical financial systems.
- Raises the bar by consistently pushing for higher engineering standards, better test coverage, cleaner architecture, and more resilient systems.
Responsibilities
- Architect, design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable, and high performance applications supporting MTF.
- Lead the design of distributed, fault tolerant, real time systems capable of handling high volume, low latency trade processing across global markets.
- Champion the use of AI assisted coding tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot) to accelerate developer productivity, reduce toil, and improve code quality.
- Ensure code is clean, maintainable, and testable by adhering to SOLID principles, design patterns, and platform engineering standards.
- Actively contribute to hands on coding, code reviews, and refactoring to maintain high engineering standards across the team.
- Own the technical design of key platform components, producing clear architecture documentation and decision records.
- Champion Test Driven Development (TDD) and high unit test coverage as non negotiable engineering standards.
- Introduce AI powered code review tooling to complement human reviews.
- Drive the adoption of automated testing frameworks across unit, integration, regression, and end to end test layers.
- Implement and enforce secure coding practices, augmented by AI driven vulnerability scanning.
- Embed CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices deeply into the team's delivery workflow.
- Drive a culture of zero defect engineering with proactive quality ownership.
Must Have Skills
- Java: Core backend development; deep expertise in production grade Java applications.
- Python: Used for data pipelines, AI/ML integration, scripting, and automation.
- Microservices Architecture: Design and delivery of loosely coupled, independently deployable services at scale.
- Event Driven & Messaging Systems: Hands on experience with Kafka for real time, high throughput event streaming.
- High Availability & Fault Tolerance: Design patterns for resilient systems.
- Databases: Strong proficiency in Oracle (SQL) and MongoDB (NoSQL).
- GenAI Tooling: Hands on experience with AI assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot or equivalent).
- Data Engineering: Strong understanding of data pipelines, streaming data processing, and data quality patterns.
- Cloud Native Engineering: Hands on experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and Docker.
- CI/CD Pipelines: Strong proficiency in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- Observability & Monitoring: Experience with production monitoring, distributed tracing, intelligent alerting, and SRE practices.
- Secure Engineering: AI augmented vulnerability assessments, secure coding standards, and compliance in regulated financial environments.
Good to Have Skills
- Knowledge of trade lifecycle, money market, risk engine and risk calculations.
- Understanding of regulatory compliance frameworks.
- Knowledge of risk management, reconciliation, and exception handling patterns in settlement workflows.
- Familiarity with prompt engineering and usage of AI in software development.
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