Lead Big Data Engineer

Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Our core activities are safeguarding assets, lending money, making payments and accessing the capital markets on behalf of our clients.

 

Citi’s Mission and Value Proposition explain what we do and Strategy explain how we do it. Our mission is to serve as a trusted partner to our clients by responsibly providing financial services that enable growth and economic progress. We strive to earn and maintain our clients’ and the public’s trust by constantly adhering to the highest ethical standards and making a positive impact on the communities we serve.

The Lead Big Data Engineer is a senior level position responsible for establishing and implementing new or revised application systems and programs in coordination with the Technology Team. The overall objective of this role is to lead applications systems analysis and programming activities.

Responsibilities:

• Provide strategic influence and exercise control over resources, budget management and planning while monitoring end results.

• Lead integration of functions to meet goals, deploy new products, and enhance processes.

• As a platform and framework development lead, manage and monitor hygiene and performance issues for smooth integration and upgrades across frameworks.

• Lead, align and manage the development and enhancement of UI application for data ingestion for monitoring and report generations.

• Lead, plan, and manage development & sustainability of frameworks, and Outbound and Batch processing framework.

• Lead Frameworks and Platform activities/support.

• Analyze complex business processes, system processes, and industry standards to define and develop solutions to high level problems.

• Provide expertise in area of advanced knowledge of applications programming and plan assignments involving large budgets, cross functional project, or multiple projects.

• Develop application methodologies and standards for program analysis, design, coding, testing, debugging, and implementation.

• Utilize advanced knowledge of supported main system flows and comprehensive knowledge of multiple areas to achieve technology goals.

• Consult with end users to identify system function specifications and incorporate into overall system design.

• Allocate work, and act as an advisor/coach developers, analysts, and new team members.

• Influence and negotiate with senior leaders and communicate with external parties.

• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating 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.

Qualifications:

• Hands-on engineering lead with 12+ years of experience in Application Development and management using various Data Engineering and Software Engineering tools and technologies.

• 6+ years of experience in designing, building, and deploying production-level high volume data pipelines using tools from Hadoop stack (HDFS, Spark, Hive, Impala, Scala, Java, Python, Kafka etc.)

• 8+ years of experience in designing and developing data pipelines for data ingestion using Spark with strong programming experience in Java/Scala/Python.

• Experience in understanding complex SQLs and exposure to Database Design Concepts including Data Modeling, Logical/Conceptual Design 

• 8+ years of applications development experience in Monitoring, Building Tools, Version Control, Unit Test, TDD and Change Management to support DevOps

• 5+ years of experience in people management

• Experience managing global technology teams.

• Demonstrated knowledge of client core business functions

• Demonstrated leadership, project management, and development skills

• Relationship and consensus building skills

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

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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:

Jersey City 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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Anticipated Posting Close Date:

Mar 22, 2025

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