iOS Application Development Tech Lead - Wealth Management Sector

Company: Citi
Location: The Colony
Posted on: November 17, 2020

Job Description:

At Citi, we believe in using the power of modern engineering technologies and practices to improve peoples lives. Our mobile first banking strategy has helped us embrace change and leap frog traditional banking paradigms. Our Global Digital Technology organization relentlessly focuses on delivering leading financial capabilities for customers to ensure they seamlessly live their lives and engage in transactions that are safe, secure, and always on for them. At Citi, we believe in the bank of tomorrow and are delivering capabilities that keep pace with the market, technology innovation, and customer demand.We are embarking on a vision to make it easy for people everywhere to understand that the ability to reach their dreams and build a secure financial position is accessible to them. We will help customers do this one step at a time by guiding them through the process via robotic automation and artificial intelligence that seeks to understand each persons individual and unique risk appetite. We will help our customers build and optimize their Wealth Management portfolios and gain freedom knowing that they can be financially strong and hopeful for their future. Citi is reimagining our Wealth Management technical domain by building best of breed applications to empower consumers in their wealth journey.We want you to help. We are searching the kind of person who is excited by building solutions that improve the lives of others thru the latest technology. Are you technical and have deep Wealth Management domain experience? Are you passionate about helping those around you be more effective? Do you think about technology as a way to increase efficiency and change how business operates? Do you want to work with biometrics and voice authentication? Are you interested in delivering incredibly safe and secure solutions and using secrets management? Do you like to provide elegant simplicity across multiple devices?Responsibilities:Accountable for executing and driving results on large-scale efforts or multiple smaller efforts and serving as a development lead for most medium and large projects. This includes expertise with application development methodologies and standards for program analysis, design, coding, testing, debugging and implementation.Accountable for exhibiting a strong understanding of client core business functions.Required to support situations in which end user consultation is required to identify system function specifications and incorporate them into overall system design and delivery. Additionally, utilize comprehensive knowledge of multiple areas within technology to achieve technological objectives.Independent work style, requiring little or no guidance by more senior developers. Decisions will make a significant, measurable impact on the business goals for the client organization. During team discussions you will play a significant role with TPMs and engineering managers to determine potential risks to a schedule.Assist in the planning and managing of application development assignments generally involving large budgets, cross functional projects or multiple projects. This includes effectively understanding and analyzing both technical and business risks and impact.Expected to effectively communicate those risks to the business owners, so that they can make informed decisions.Accountable for providing guidance on architecturally significant efforts during the preplanning phase, and ensuring principles and best practices are followed prior to initiation of work. In doing so, closely watch and evaluate Digital roadmaps, including impacts to support upcoming journeys.Publish design review extensions, and provide documented guidance aligned to sprint plans and timelines.Be part of the design review board that will focus on the design process, search for generic patterns, and, at the same time, share best practices across the organization.Publish design patterns across lines of business and domain commonalities. Drive design reviews for Next Gen Architecture (NGA) and Plan of Record (POR) projects, supporting design principles and best practices.Participate in micro services and NGA code reviews.Empower SDEs and their teams by mentoring and coaching.Have a comprehensive understanding of the business domain, the systems, and the products in your space. Understand their accountabilities, boundaries, limitations, scale factors and the reasons behind architectural decisions.Provide a long-term perspective for business and technology choices; using technical judgment to vet architecture as required.Able to direct teams on how to develop and deliver systems that are efficient with resource usage such as hardware, runtime, performance, load, and memory requirements.Responsible for broader design decisions and development of long-term strategies that significantly influence the development process and standards.Accountable for Design Reviews of Agile and Plan of Record (POR) projects as well as accountable for Code Reviews of Next Gen Architecture (NGA) projects and are expected to elaborate, promote and communicate Design Patterns applicable to NGA architectures and solutions.Accountable for providing architectural guidance to the SDEs based on best practices and in alignment with CTO guidelines and platform.Drive clarity and work with complete independence as business and or technical strategy is not defined.Provide the corresponding architectural guidance, and conduct design reviews and code reviews based on the projects assigned to your LOB. The product definition and technical planning is out of scope.Accountable for the overall strategy and for driving the teams inside and outside of your organization to deliver expected results. Drive mindful discussion with business and technical stakeholders that lead to timely decisions. Participate in discussions to drive smart trade-off decisions that balance efforts, delivery timelines, features, and technical constraints. Identify and remove blockers and always find the path forward in challenging situations.Create plans that have a clear path to delivery. Solve for dependencies between agile and waterfall delivery efforts. Help your teams organize for delivery while maximizing resources for the greater good of the Digital organization. Understand engineering best practices and apply best practices to the software development lifecycle (SDLC)Accountable for Design Reviews for Citi Agile and POR projects as well as Code Reviews for the NGA projects. Accountable for providing architectural guidance to the SDEs based on best practices and in alignment with CTO guidelines and platform. Elaborate, promote and communicate Design Patterns applicable to NGA architectures and solutions.Elaborate, bring and communicate clear metrics on Design Reviews, Code Reviews, CI/CD and Design Patterns adoption.Communicate progress, anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, identify, assess, track and mitigate issues/risks at multiple levels. Recognize discordant views and take part in constructive dialog to resolve them.Demonstrate the ability to implement continuous improvement and the induction of new technology. Demonstrate examples of influence in scrum teams beyond your own area of focus.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.Qualifications:Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related field and 7+ years commercial iOS App development experience Strong familiarity with Swift, utilizing iOS design patters including MVC, MVVM and VIPER with a focus on Test Driven Development in a large, enterprise environment among teams of iOS engineers. Solid grasp of algorithms, memory management and re-time communicationExperience with iOS frameworks such as Core Graphics, Quartz and Core Animation, good knowledge of geometric data types in developing high end interactive chartsUnderstanding of mobile encryption algorithms, analytics and marketing channel integrations Knowledge of test automation in XCUITest framework, code quality/coverage tools like Sonar, experience with deploying applications in a DevOps environment leveraging CI/CD tools Experience in developing commonly used dynamic UI components across the appExperience with analytics and performance monitoring SDKsKnowledge of the open-source iOS ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasksExperience with Auto Layout, Push Notifications is required. Developer with Behavior Driven Development experience is must.Investment/Wealth domain experience a MUSTEducation:Bachelors/University degree, Masters degree preferred-------------------------------------------------Job Family Group: Technology-------------------------------------------------Job Family:Digital Software Engineering------------------------------------------------------Time Type:------------------------------------------------------Citi is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.Citigroup Inc. and its subsidiaries ("Citi) invite all qualified interested applicants to apply for career opportunities. 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