Core Java Developer / Engineering Manager (Hands-on)

This is a developer position, for a hands-on Java coder with solid experience of Java, Spring, and relational databases. Candidates are expected to write high quality, clean code with robust tests.

Role responsibility will include:

• Manage/develop multiple teams of professionals to accomplish established goals and conduct personnel duties for the team (e.g. performance evaluations, hiring, and disciplinary actions) as well as ensure the team adheres to best practices and processes. Develop vision for the team around roles and responsibilities, and structure the team to ensure the greatest impact, efficient use of resources, and alignment to business structures.
• Prepare and present regular team/project reviews to senior management and business leaders.
• Drive the design and development of system architecture, work with end-users of the systems, and enhance the quality of deliverables. Ensure staff follows Citi documented policy and procedures as well as maintain desktop procedures and supporting documentation for filings on a current basis and in a comprehensive manner.
• Lead and deliver local staff forums, present global, regional, and location news and updates to engage the team in the progress of the organization.
• Contribute to defining and implementing best practices and processes for the department and ensure transparency and consistency across teams.

Relevant experience includes all of the below:

• The role is hands-on - includes both technical implementation and thought leadership.
  • The role does involve budget responsibility.
  • Manage and inspire a high-quality team of engineers.
• Solid experience of a modern long-term support version of Java – preferably 17 or 21
  • Object-oriented design.
  • Lambdas & streams.
  • Executors.
  • Generics.
• Expert use of source control using Git, experience with Pull Request workflow, and a solid understanding of safe branching and merging practices ideally using trunk-based development, or alternatively using well-known branching strategies such as Gitflow.
• Extensive experience of continuous integration using TeamCity, Jenkins, or Tekton.
• A good experience of writing unit tests with JUnit, preferably JUnit5, good experience of Spring testing support, ideally experience of other testing frameworks such as RESTAssured, Selenium, Mockito. Candidates should be focused not on coverage numbers but on high quality, stable tests.
• An understanding of static code analysis using Sonar and other linting tools, and a relentless drive to keep code quality issues to a minimum.
• A good understanding of dependency management using Gradle or Maven,
  • solid familiarity with binary repositories such as Jfrog Artifactory,
  • an understanding of the tooling required to detect and remediate out-of-date dependencies,
  • and an understanding of the potential vulnerabilities introduced by third-party open-source software.
• Solid experience with Spring framework including SpringBoot, Spring JDBC.
• Understanding of TLS, certificate management, and secrets management solutions such as Hashicorp Vault, Cyberark.
• Experience with designing and building OpenAPI endpoints.
• Experience of integrating with messaging technologies such as Solace, Kafka, EMS.
• Experience with relational databases, preferably Oracle; good skills at integrating SQL into Java applications using a preferred framework (Spring JDBC, Hibernate, etc.) and managing database-related changes with Flyway or a similar tool.
• Experience with building and running containers using Docker / Podman / containerd.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Kubernetes and/or OpenShift.
• Good Linux skills.

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

Job Family Group: Technology

Job Family: Applications Development

Time Type: Full time

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