Senior Big Data Developer/Analyst Tech Lead

The Applications Development Senior Manager is a senior management level position responsible for accomplishing results through the management of a team or department in an effort to establish and implement new or revised application systems and programs in coordination with the Technology team. The overall objective of this role is to drive applications systems analysis and programming activities.
Responsibilities:

• Manage one or more Applications Development teams in an effort to accomplish established goals as well as conduct personnel duties for team (e.g. performance evaluations, hiring and disciplinary actions)
• Utilize in-depth knowledge and skills across multiple Applications Development areas to provide technical oversight across systems and applications
• Review and analyze proposed technical solutions for projects
• Contribute to formulation of strategies for applications development and other functional areas
• Develop comprehensive knowledge of how areas of business integrate to accomplish business goals
• Provide evaluative judgment based on analysis of factual data in complicated and unique situations
• Impact the Applications Development area through monitoring delivery of end results, participate in budget management, and handling day-to-day staff management issues, including resource management and allocation of work within the team/project
• Ensure essential procedures are followed and contribute to defining standards negotiating with external parties when necessary
• 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.

Core Responsibilities:

• This role is for a Data Engineering Tech Lead to work on the Vanguard Big Data Platform. The team is responsible for the design, architecture, development, and maintenance/support of leading Big Data initiatives and use cases providing business value.
• Interface with product teams to understand their requirements to build the ingestion pipelines and conformance layer for consumption by business.
• Work closely with the data ingestion team to track the requirements and drive the build out of the canonical models.
• Provide guidance to the data conformance team for implementing the requirements / changes / enhancements to the conformance model.
• Do very much technical and hands-on development as part of the conformance team to deliver the business requirements.
• Manage the workload of the team and the scrum process to align it with the objectives and priorities of the product owners.
• Participate in data management activities related to the Risk and Regulatory requirements as needed.

Core Skills:

• The Data Engineering lead will be working very closely with and managing the work of a team of data engineers working on our Big Data
• Platform. The lead will need the below core skills –
• Strong solid understanding of the Big Data architecture and the ability to trouble shoot performance and/or development issues on Hadoop (Cloudera preferably)
• Hands-on experience working with Hive, Impala, Kafka, HBase, Spark for data curation/conformance related work.
• Strong proficiency in Spark for development work related to curation/conformance. Strong Scala development (with previous Java background) preferred.
• Experience with Spark/Kafka or equivalent streaming/batch processing and event-based messaging.
• Strong data analysis skills and the ability to slice and dice the data as needed for business reporting.
• Experience working in an agile environment with a fast-paced changing requirement.
• Excellent planning and organizational skills
• Strong Communication skills

Additional Requirements (Nice to have):

• Cloudera/Hortonworks/AWS EMR, Couchbase, S3 experience a plus
• Experience with Cloud Integration on AWS, Snowflake, Couchbase, or GCP tech stack components.
• Relational SQL (Oracle, SQL Server) and NoSQL (MongoDB) database integration and data distribution principles experience
• Experience with API development and use of JSON/XML/Hypermedia data formats.
• Analysis and development across Lines of business product/function including Payments, Digital Channels, Liquidities, Trade, Sales, Pricing, Client Experience having Cross train, functional and/or technical knowledge
• Align to Engineering Excellence Development principles and standards.

Qualifications:

• 8-12 years of relevant experience in the Financial Service industry
• Experience as Applications Development Manager
• Experience as senior level in an Applications Development role
• Stakeholder and people management experience
• Demonstrated leadership skills
• Proven project management skills
• Basic knowledge of industry practices and standards
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
• Master’s degree preferred

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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