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As an Applications Development Group Manager within the Data Engineering group at Citi, you will play a pivotal role in the company's broad transformation strategy. Your responsibilities will include providing architectural vision, developing strategies, planning solutions on an enterprise level, and maintaining awareness of business, technical, and infrastructure issues. You will collaborate with stakeholders globally to develop, implement, and roll out technology solutions to address complex business problems. **Responsibilities:** - Provide architectural vision ensuring conformity to enterprise blueprints - Develop architecture, strategy, planning, and problem-solving solutions on an enterprise level - Interface across multiple channels and act as a visionary to define future project directions - Maintain awareness of business, technical, and infrastructure issues and provide creative solutions - Develop metadata-driven frameworks for data processing/transformation and real-time processing solutions - Hands-on experience with Big Data technologies such as Spark with Scala, Hive, Impala, Kafka, Solace, and Iceberg format tables - Excellent communication skills to drive necessary changes and translate vision into technical artifacts - Identify and apply optimization techniques to enhance existing application performance - Provide thought leadership in key business subjects - Offer senior-level technical consulting and mentoring during design and development of complex data projects - Collaborate effectively with team members, vendors, and business stakeholders to align work efforts and execute strategic plans - Knowledge of technology solutions in Banking or Trading Book products preferred - Data modeling experience in financial services environment, particularly Enterprise Data warehouse Model based on Banking Model - Stay updated on industry leading practices to direct design, development, testing, and implementation of priority technology requirements - Provide in-depth analysis to define issues and develop innovative solutions - Impact technology function through technical direction and strategic decisions - Accountable for end-to-end results including budgeting, policy formulation, and future state technology strategies - Negotiate effectively and often at higher levels - Perform other assigned job duties and functions **Qualifications:** - 10+ years of experience in building data engineering solutions for large-scale Operational and Data Warehouse implementations - Demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication consistently - Management and prioritization skills - 8+ years of experience in building enterprise data warehouse systems in the finance sector preferred - 8+ years of relevant experience in Application Development for Enterprise - Must have technical skills in Java/Scala, Hadoop, Python, Hive, Impala, Kafka, Elastic, Apache Iceberg, Oracle, Netezza - Core Skills include experience in handling large teams, IT projects design and development, enterprise architecture, data & database architecture, project management, software development life cycle, risk management, on/offshore large teams management - Knowledge of Ab Initio suite of products preferred - Ability to develop working relationships, manage multiple activities and changing priorities, work under pressure, meet tight deadlines, and take initiative - Methodical with attention to detail **Education:** - Bachelors degree/University degree or equivalent experience - Masters degree preferred,
