Middleware Tech Lead

**Organization Overview**:
**Citi Market Operations Technology is currently at a pivotal point in its evolution and journey to implement a target operating model. We take pride and are passionate about our People and our culture. We are invested in people and their development. We are transforming and simplifying our operating model and creating an exciting environment which encourages diversity of thought and inclusion.**:
**Our roles entail ensuring we operate in a robust control environment, whilst in a fast-paced workplace. We comply with global regulations and internal policies and adopt a proactive approach to identifying opportunities to reduce risk through the continuous evaluation of our controls; to protect our clients, the firm and our reputation.**:
**We work closely with our external global peers, partners and regulators, and play an integral part in leading an agenda at the forefront to optimize and streamline processes and drive strategy across our industry.**:
**Job Purpose**:
**Markets Operations Technology team is looking for a Lead Project Engineer with experience in developing High Volume Distributed Realtime Event Processing platforms. Person in this role will lead the development, and delivery of a critical initiative involving central data processing platform to house critical transactional data from multiple business processes and asset classes and make the data available over Enterprise Search Engines and Data Fabric.**:

- ** This is a Vice President role within the ICG Markets Tech team. You will be the Lead Project Engineer responsible for the leadership and management of a diverse set of talent comprising of 20+ team members globally.**:

- ** This is a highly visible role for a key initiative wherein you would get opportunity to work on multiple asset classes and business functions, interact with many teams and stakeholders at senior level**:

- ** This is a great opportunity to join a high performing, high profile and energized team.**:

- ** You will be leading the development, and delivery of our central data processing platform to house critical transactional data from multiple business processes and asset classes. This is a critical firm wide initiative.**:

- ** You will also get the opportunity to liaise between key technology and business partners across Markets Operations and Tech, and liaise with the Citi Technology Teams which would include several SaaS offerings and Hardware teams and also interact with the Technology Experts of different Product Vendors.**:
**Responsibilities**:

- **Complete Ownership & Responsibility for end-to-end solution of Realtime High Volume Event Processing Platform.**:

- ** Work closely with business stakeholders and technology teams to drive execution and delivery**:

- ** Lead a culture of innovation & experimentation, support full software lifecycle that incorporates the best of technology approaches & delivery methodologies**:

- ** Manage team of professionals to accomplish established goals and conduct personnel duties for the team**:

- ** Actively participate in brainstorming session and provide solid inputs to the team and ensure best practices are followed within the team.**:

- ** Provide strategic influence and exercise control over resources, budget management and planning while monitoring end results**:

- ** Influence technical architecture and **negotiate/communicate** with senior leaders across functions, as well as communicate with external parties as necessary**:

- ** Provide thought leadership on how to grow the platform.**:

- ** Hands-on Development opportunity across the latest niche technologies like ELK, Kafka, Mongo, Microservices**:

- ** Continuous Collaboration and co-ordination with teams spread across geography.**:

- ** Ensure Code quality and proper coverage is maintained, using tools like Secure Assist, Sonar etc.**:

- ** Ensure proper code governance using GIT/Bitbucket**:
**Qualification and Skills**:

- ** 10+ years of working as a Hands-On technical leader working on complex Realtime, Distributed, High Volume, Event Processing systems in a large organization, structuring, establishing, and leading multiple product-centric development teams**:

- ** Bachelor's or master’s degree in Computer science, Information Technology, **Computer Engineering or** equivalent**:

- ** Experienced in driving software delivery and transformation through Agile practices and processes, with a focus of establishing Continuous Delivery culture and process**:

- ** Exceptional communicator who loves working with people, confident communicating at all levels from an individual team to the entire enterprise**:

- ** 3+ years’ experience in developing and delivering large scale microservices based architecture using Spring Boot and Spring JMS is must.**:

- ** 5+ years’ experience working in at least one messaging/event processing system like Tibco EMS, Kafka etc. in a high-volume environment.**:

- ** Experience work