Java Engineering Lead - Vice President

Citi · Chennai · 10+ yrs experience · Posted 2026-07-18

Tech stack: Java, Kafka, MongoDB, Spring Boot

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About the role

The Engineering Lead is a key role within Citi’s Payment delivery organization. This is a hands-on position focused on practicing and enforcing engineering principles, driving automation, and implementing solutions that meet business requirements across APIs, Data, Reconciliation, and Reporting. The role is accountable for defining and implementing a robust data governance framework and providing technical leadership to strengthen engineering standards, guide the team in achieving automation goals, and ensure alignment with Business and Technology objectives.
Responsibilities: - Provide technical leadership and strategy for solutions, applications, and systems across the platform.
- Define and implement a robust data governance framework, including strategies for data storage, high availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery.
- Practice and enforce strong engineering principles and standards to guide the team in achieving automation and delivery goals.
- Provide expertise to identify and translate system requirements into software design artifacts.
- Drive experiments and Proof of Concept (PoC) to assess new solutions and application paths.
- Work proactively & independently to address project requirements, and articulate issues/challenges at the appropriate time to address project delivery risks.
- Follow industry-wide best practices to minimize the technical debt of software deliverables.
- Interface and coordinate tasks with internal and external technical resources, collaborate to provide estimates, develop overall implementation plans, and serve as a lead to implement installation, customization, and integration efforts.
- Apply your skill and experience within a fast-paced operations-centric environment towards developing architecture and design for the regulatory platform at large.
- Technical Skills Required:
- Strong hands-on lead developer with technical ability having 10+ years of design & development experience.
- Practitioner and Advocate of CLEAN code practice.
- Practitioner of AI tools in driving productivity and efficiencies.
Qualifications: - in design and development of medium to large-scale applications using open-source tech stack
- Spring boot, Microservices, Kafka.
- Strong Java skills.
- with databases: MongoDB.
- in writing unit tests and integration tests using standard frameworks, ensuring minimized technical debt.
- in building CI/CD pipelines and single-click deployment
- Harness, Lightspeed, Openshift.
- Ability to drive engineering deliveries and handle multiple concurrent initiatives.
- with testing concepts (TDD, BDD) and JUnit.
- creating Functional and Technical Specs documentation.
- Soft Skills Required: Curious mindset.
- Able to identify and solve problems effectively.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Pragmatic, and a creative approach to managing risk.
- A growth mindset and willingness to learn and adapt in a fast-paced environment.
- Shows enthusiasm and develops trust through empathy.
- Passionate about site reliability engineering and its impact on product development.
- Connected to the latest technologies, like Generative AI, and keen to put them in practice.
- A self-starter with the ability to work effectively in teams and remotely.
- Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience.
- Master's degree preferred.

Qualifications

- in design and development of medium to large-scale applications using open-source tech stack
- Spring boot, Microservices, Kafka.
- Strong Java skills.
- with databases: MongoDB.
- in writing unit tests and integration tests using standard frameworks, ensuring minimized technical debt.
- in building CI/CD pipelines and single-click deployment
- Harness, Lightspeed, Openshift.
- Ability to drive engineering deliveries and handle multiple concurrent initiatives.
- with testing concepts (TDD, BDD) and JUnit.
- creating Functional and Technical Specs documentation.
- Soft Skills Required: Curious mindset.
- Able to identify and solve problems effectively.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Pragmatic, and a creative approach to managing risk.
- A growth mindset and willingness to learn and adapt in a fast-paced environment.
- Shows enthusiasm and develops trust through empathy.
- Passionate about site reliability engineering and its impact on product development.
- Connected to the latest technologies, like Generative AI, and keen to put them in practice.
- A self-starter with the ability to work effectively in teams and remotely.
- Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience.
- Master's degree preferred.

Responsibilities

- Provide technical leadership and strategy for solutions, applications, and systems across the platform.
- Define and implement a robust data governance framework, including strategies for data storage, high availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery.
- Practice and enforce strong engineering principles and standards to guide the team in achieving automation and delivery goals.
- Provide expertise to identify and translate system requirements into software design artifacts.
- Drive experiments and Proof of Concept (PoC) to assess new solutions and application paths.
- Work proactively & independently to address project requirements, and articulate issues/challenges at the appropriate time to address project delivery risks.
- Follow industry-wide best practices to minimize the technical debt of software deliverables.
- Interface and coordinate tasks with internal and external technical resources, collaborate to provide estimates, develop overall implementation plans, and serve as a lead to implement installation, customization, and integration efforts.
- Apply your skill and experience within a fast-paced operations-centric environment towards developing architecture and design for the regulatory platform at large.
- Technical Skills Required:
- Strong hands-on lead developer with technical ability having 10+ years of design & development experience.
- Practitioner and Advocate of CLEAN code practice.
- Practitioner of AI tools in driving productivity and efficiencies.

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