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Senior/Lead Software Architect

This is an exciting opportunity for a senior architect level, cloud-native Java/python or full-stack software engineer empathetic with the challenges that Data Engineering teams face in delivering software in large, heterogeneous organisations.  If you are passionate about engineering excellence and building the best developer experience into your solutions, come and build a meaningful career at Citi and help thousands of developers.

The Role

The Chief Data Office (CTO) Engineering and Architecture Practice (EAP) is responsible for defining and executing core architecture and technology strategy to ensure complete strategic alignment and efficiency of execution across a diverse portfolio of engineering activities, including external Cloud Capability development, Platform Architectures, and Data Engineering. This role is for a strong Senior Software Architect in the Data Engineering team who will be responsible for codification of the architecture, designing new system capabilities and taking responsibility for the delivery of data engineering components on-premise and on cloud.  Your solutions will be leveraged by thousands of developers across Citi supporting applications used by hundreds of thousands of internal and client users, and must be simple to use, well documented with an excellent developer experience.  Engineering excellence and a hands-on background in modern software engineering are essential. Inclusivity at Citi means your primary responsibility is to the team: supporting a diverse team, collaborating to further develop as engineers, doing satisfying and valuable work, and enjoying doing it. You will be expected to positively influence our culture and collaborate with the team on strategy and technical delivery.

What You’ll Be Doing

• This role has a hands-on technical aspect, architecting and building solutions that will be leveraged by developers. You will demonstrate sound engineering principles and a good understanding of modern CI/CD toolsets.
• Advocate and advance modern software development practices, including privacy and security first principles.  Incorporate DevSecOps and SRE best practices, helping engineering teams navigate complex security and risk requirements and architect innovative solutions that are secure, resilient and scalable.
• Utilize cutting edge technology including GenAI to deliver efficiencies and business outcome in and around the tooling you are creating.
• Take overall responsibility for solution planning and delivery in line with overall strategic objectives, working closely with various stakeholders, program and project managers.
• Ensure that your team delivers great solutions that users love by maintaining a culture of quality and engineering excellence.

Who You Are

• You have 10+ Years of relevant experience
• You are a senior software architect with a passion for designing and building modern, cloud-native, fully observable data engineering solutions. You strive to build solutions that are valued by developers and have an experience-based understanding of what that means.
• You have experience managing, guiding and mentoring software engineering teams, ensuring high levels of team productivity.
• You have solid experience in an agile development environment with modern programming languages and technologies such as Golang, Java/Spring Boot, C#, Node.JS, Kotlin, Scala, Python etc.
• You have experience designing and implementing cloud-native applications using open and closed source standards and solutions such as Docker, Kubernetes, RedHat OpenShift, Cloud Foundry.
• You have experience with public cloud providers such as AWS (preferable), Azure and GCP.
• You have a good working knowledge of microservices architectures, Rest APIs, streaming and message queueing systems (Kafka etc.) and how to instrument them.
• You love working together on scalable systems, embracing new technologies, and pushing the boundaries of “the art of the possible”. 
• Expertise in Big Data technologies and cloud migration projects is a plus.
• Expertise in data governance or data control is a plus.
• Experience with LLMs and GenAI is a plus

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Job Family Group:

Technology

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Job Family:

Systems & Engineering

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Time Type:

Full time

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