Citi Group Engineering Manager Digital Payments 

United States, Texas, Irving 

822127068

Responsibilities:

• Demonstrate the ability to attract senior talent and multiple functions from inside and outside of company. Teach others how to set high organizational performance standards, determine performance measures and goals and establish a leadership bar. This will require the ability to facilitate understanding of broader organizational tenets and strategic goals for department

• Recognize trends for larger-scale development needs within and across teams and builds plans to develop skills. Share talent development best practices across organization

• Audit department goals to ensure alignment with broader organizational goals and that these goals are aligned with and accountable for department performance against goals

• Develop and communicate department vision that supports the broader organizational vision; ensure team culture consistently demonstrates alignment with leadership principles; and visibly ties department decisions to leadership principles and tenets

• Lead the development, implementation, and delivery of successful large-scale, critical and/or difficult software efforts involving significant work (can be new software or a refactor of existing software). Heavily influence the development and write a significant portion of the “critical-path” code.

• Think in terms of architecture, not just code. Have detailed knowledge of the work done by your team and proactively work to improve consistency and integration between your software and related software (owned by other teams).

• Influence your team’s technical and business strategy by making insightful contributions to team priorities and approach. You take the lead in identifying and solving ambiguous problems, architecture deficiencies, or areas where your team’s software bottlenecks the innovation of other teams. Make software simpler.

• Able to communicate your ideas effectively to achieve the right outcome for your team and customer. Harmonize discordant views and lead the resolution of contentious issues (build consensus).

• Lead design reviews for your team and actively participate in design reviews of related software or other team software at your location.

• Code, development and implementation decisions set a great example to others. Provide insightful code reviews and take ownership of outcome. (“You ‘ship it’, you own it.”) Work very efficiently and routinely deliver the right things.

• Actively participate in the hiring process as well as mentor others - improving their skills, their knowledge of your software, and their ability to get things done

• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular 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, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of relevant experience in Software Engineering, with a focus on digital payments, product line management, and e-commerce/transactional systems, and/or strategic planning.

• Significant experience building complex business and/or transactional models.

• Has thrived and succeeded in delivering high quality technology products / services in a high growth environment where priorities shift rapidly.

• Ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions and develop business cases.

• First-class leadership and influencing skills, including experience managing a Tech Team

• Demonstrated interpersonal and talent management skills, including the ability to identify and develop product management talent.

• Demonstrated technical influence over 3-4 teams, either via a collaborative software effort or by increasing their productivity and effectiveness by driving software engineering best practices (e.g., Security , Quality , Operational Excellence , etc.).

• Strong technical background in digital payment systems such as Zelle, ACH, Wires, Bill Payments, Real-Time Payments, and Digital Wallets .

• Proficient in Java, Angular , Swift and/or Kotlin with experience in building micro-services and native mobile payment applications .

• Proven experience with blockchain , distributed ledger technologies , or other cutting-edge payment innovations .

• Solid understanding of secure coding practices , data protection , and compliance requirements related to financial technologies.

• Expertise in building and scaling complex, high-availability systems with a deep knowledge of cloud infrastructure ( AWS , GCP , or Azure ).

• Experience leading teams using agile methodologies to deliver projects in fast-paced, high-growth environments.

• Strong analytical skills, with a track record of using data and metrics to make informed decisions.

• Experience in working with enterprise-scale databases , microservices architectures , and APIs is a plus .

• Familiarity with fintech regulatory requirements and data privacy laws is a plus .

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

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