Citi
Apps Dev Tech Sr Lead Analyst
Mississauga Ontario Canada · Senior · Full-time
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 21 days ago
PythonJavaKotlinCode ReviewGitSQLNoSQLMongoDBVector DatabasesAWSDockerKubernetesCI/CDDevOpsAPI DevelopmentKafkaMachine LearningData EngineeringLLMsRAGAgentic AIMLOpsCybersecurityCompliance
About the role
- You will be responsible for the reliability, scalability, security, and evolution of a mission-critical equity settlement platform, and will play an active role in embedding AI and ML capabilities into both the platform and the engineering workflow.
- Write, review, and refactor production-grade code in Kotlin, Java, and Python - setting the technical bar for the team.
- AI & ML Integration - Technical & Strategic
Responsibilities
- Hands-On Technical Leadership & System Design
- Actively participate in system design, architecture reviews, and code reviews across TMZ platform teams.
- Lead design of event-driven, microservices-based architectures using Kafka or Solace - including message schema design, topic partitioning, consumer group strategies, and fault-tolerant processing.
- Drive low-latency and high-performance system design - leading performance profiling, bottleneck analysis, and optimization of critical platform components.
- Design and govern data architecture across Oracle (SQL) and MongoDB (NoSQL) - schema design, indexing strategies, query optimization, and data consistency patterns.
- Champion trunk-based development, feature flags, and progressive delivery - contributing to CI/CD pipeline design and optimization.
- Produce and review architecture decision records (ADRs) and technical design documents for key platform components.
- Lead the implementation of AI-powered platform capabilities - intelligent exception handling, predictive settlement failure detection, anomaly detection on trade flows, and automated reconciliation.
- Build and develop a strong engineering team with access to good tooling, platforms, and talent.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience
Nice to have
- Master's degree preferred
Skills
- Programming - Hands-On Proficiency
- Kotlin Primary platform language - strong hands-on proficiency; write, review, and architect production-grade Kotlin services
- Python Hands-on expertise in data pipelines, AI/ML integration, scripting, and automation
- Java Extensive hands-on experience in high-throughput, production-grade Java engineering; JVM performance tuning
- System Architecture - Real-Time, High-Throughput & Performance
- Advanced Data & AI Integration
Benefits
- Lead engineering for a platform central to global equity trade settlement operations - while staying technically engaged.
- Drive AI and engineering transformation as part of the Equity Growth Initiative, with senior visibility and business impact.
- Trade Manager Zone Platform | Cash Securities Settlements | Equity Growth Initiative
- We are looking for an experienced Apps Development Group Manager to lead engineering for the Trade Manager Zone (TMZ) platform within the Cash Securities Settlements group, supporting the Equity Growth Initiative.
- Contribute to the design of distributed, fault-tolerant, real-time systems for high-volume, low-latency equity trade processing.
- Define and own the engineering roadmap for the Trade Manager Zone platform, aligned to the Equity Growth Initiative and Cash Securities Settlements objectives.
- Cash Securities Settlements | Trade Manager Zone Platform | Equity Growth Initiative | C14
Company info
- Be part of an engineering culture that values technical depth at every level of seniority.
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