Citi Group Tech Lead – Scala/Spark AVP C12 - Chennai 

India, Tamil Nadu, Chennai 

141632709

He/she requires exceptional communication skills across both technology and the business and will have a high degree of visibility. The candidate will be a rigorous technical lead with a strong understanding of how to buildscalable, enterprise level global applications.

The ideal candidate will be dependable and resourceful software professional who can comfortably work in a large development team in a globally distributed, dynamic work environment that fosters diversity, teamwork and collaboration. The ability to work in high pressured environment is essential.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and implementation of large-scale data processing pipelines using Apache Spark on BigData Hadoop Platform.
• Develop and optimize Spark applications for performance and scalability.
• Responsible for providing technical leadership of multiple large scale/complex global software solutions.
• Integrate data from various sources, including Couchbase, Snowflake, and HBase, ensuring data quality and consistency.
• Experience of developing teams of permanent employees and vendors from 5 – 15 developers in size
• Build and sustain strong relationships with the senior business leaders associated with the platform
• Design, code, test, document and implement application release projects as part of development team.
• Work with onsite development partners to ensure design and coding best practices.
• Work closely with Program Management and Quality Control teams to deliver quality software to agreed project schedules.
• Proactively notify Development Project Manager of risks, bottlenecks, problems, issues, and concerns.
• Compliance with Citi's System Development Lifecycle and Information Security requirements.
• Oversee development scope, budgets, time line documents
• Monitor, update and communicate project timelines and milestones; obtain senior management feedback; understand potential speed bumps and client’s true concerns/needs.
• Stay updated with the latest trends and technologies in big data and cloud computing.
• Mentor and guide junior developers, providing technical leadership and expertise.

Key Challenges:

• Managing time and changing priorities in a dynamic environment
• Ability to provide quick turnaround to software issues and management requests
• Ability to assimilate key issues and concepts and come up to speed quickly

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or equivalent
• Minimum 10 years of Proven experience in developing and managing big data solutions using Apache Spark . Having strong hold on Spark-core, Spark-SQL & Spark Streaming
• Minimum6 years of experience in leading globally distributed teams successfully.
• Strong programming skills inScala, Java, or Python.
• Hands on experience on Technologies likeApache Hive, Apache Kafka, HBase, Couchbase, Sqoop, Flumeetc.
• Proficiency in SQL and experience with relational( Oracle/PL-SQL )and NoSQL databases likemongoDB.
• Demonstrated people and technical management skills.
• Demonstrated excellent software development skills. Strong experiences in implementation of complex file transformations like positional, xmls.
• Experience in building enterprise system with focus on recovery, stability, reliability, scalability and performance.
• Experience in working on Kafka, JMS / MQ applications.
• Experience in working multiple OS (Unix, Linux, Win)
• Familiarity with data warehousing concepts and ETL processes.
• Experience in performance tuning of large technical solutions with significant volumes
• Knowledge of data modeling, data architecture, and data integration techniques.
• Knowledge on best practices for data security, privacy, and compliance.

Key Competencies:

• Excellent organization skills, attention to detail, and ability to multi-task
• Demonstrated sense of responsibility and capability to deliver quickly
• Excellent communication skills. Clearly articulating and documenting technical and functional specifications is a key requirement.
• Proactive problem-solver
• Relationship builder and team player
• Negotiation, difficult conversation management and prioritization skills
• Flexibility to handle multiple complex projects and changing priorities
• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills
• Good analytical and business skills
• Promotes teamwork and builds strong relationships within and across global teams
• Promotes continuous process improvement especially in code quality, testability & reliability

Desirable Skills:

• Experience in Java, Spring, ETL Tools like Talend, Ab Initio is a plus.
• Experience of migrating functionality from ETL tools to Spark.
• Experience/knowledge on Cloud technologies AWS, GCP.
• Experience in Financial industry
• ETL Certification, Project Management Certification
• Experience with Commercial Cards applications and processes would be advantageous
• Experience with Agile methodology

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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