Digital S/W Eng Lead Analyst -Vice President

Citigroup Inc.; Tampa (FL); On-site; USD 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution is seeking experienced full-stack software engineers to solve business challenges through innovation. The role involves Agile software delivery, developing cloud-based applications, and leveraging modern engineering practices. Candidates should have over 9 years of experience in Java with strong knowledge in software engineering best practices and cloud-native technologies. This position is primarily located in Tampa, Florida.

Qualifications

• 9+ years of experience as a Software Engineer/Developer using Java.
• Multiple years of experience with software engineering best practices.
• Clear understanding of Data Structures and Object-Oriented Principles.

Responsibilities

• Apply knowledge and expertise across the software development lifecycle.
• Develop solutions within an Agile software delivery team.
• Contribute to design, documentation, and development of applications.

Skills

Java

Cloud-native development

Microservices architectures

Agile and iterative software delivery

Container orchestration tools

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Spring Boot

Job description

Overview

We are looking for experienced full-stack software engineers who are passionate about solving business problems through innovation and engineering practices. This role will be responsible for writing code, pairing with other developers as appropriate, decomposing acceptance criteria to understand team backlog deliverables, complexities, and risk, while working as a strong contributor on an agile team. From a technical standpoint, the Software Engineer has full-stack coding and implementation responsibilities and adheres to best practice principles including modern cloud-based software development, agile and scrum, code quality, and tool usage. The Software Engineer works to understand and influence software architecture, while contributing to Citi’s and GFT’s technical user base.

Responsibilities

• Apply depth of knowledge and expertise to all aspects of the software development lifecycle, as well as partner continuously with stakeholders on a regular basis
• Develop and engineer solutions within an Agile software delivery team, working to collaboratively deliver sprint goals, write code, and participate in the broader Citi technical community and team-level Agile and Scrum processes.
• Contribute to the design, documentation, and development of world-class enterprise applications leveraging the latest technologies and software design patterns.
• Leverage technical knowledge of concepts and procedures within own area and basic knowledge of other areas to resolve issues, as necessary.
• Follow and contribute to defining technical and team standards.
• Collaborate technical leadership to achieve established goals, in line with our broader technical strategy.

Required Qualifications

• 9+ years of experience as a Software Engineer/Developer using Java
• Multiple years of experience with software engineering best practices (unit testing, automation, design patterns, peer review, etc.)
• Clear understanding of Data Structures and Object-Oriented Principles using Java
• Multiple years of experience with cloud-native development and container orchestration tools (Serverless, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, etc.)
• Experience with Cloud infrastructure both on-premises and public cloud (i.e., OpenShift, AWS, etc.)
• Multiple years of experience on Service Oriented and Microservices architectures, including REST and GraphQL implementations
• Multiple years of experience with frameworks like Spring Boot, Quarkus, Micronaut, or Vert.x
• Exposure to Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, either on-premise or public cloud (i.e., Tekton, Harness, CircleCI, Cloudbees Jenkins, etc.)
• Multiple years of experience with agile and iterative software delivery

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to architecture experience in building horizontally scalable, highly available, highly resilient, and low latency applications
• Exposure to Cloud infrastructure both on-premise and public cloud (i.e., OpenShift, AWS, etc.)
• Exposure to event-driven design and architecture (i.e., Kafka, Spark Flink, etc.)
• Exposure to API Management tools
• Exposure to Infrastructure as Code tools (i.e., Terraform, Cloudformation)
• Exposure to Security, Observability, and Monitoring tools (i.e., Grafana Prometheus, Splunk, ELK, CloudWatch, etc.)
• Experience mentoring and providing technical leadership for teams of 5 or more developers
• Exposure to database concepts (RDBMS, NoSQL) and web-based technologies (Angular/React) is a plus

Education

Bachelor's Degree Computer Science or equivalent experience.

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Most Relevant Skills: Please see the requirements listed above.

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Other Relevant Skills: For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

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Anticipated Posting Close Date: Aug 28, 2025

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