Big Data Engineering Lead/IT Project Tech Senior Manager

The Big Data Applications Development Senior Manager is a senior management/lead 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:

• Partner with multiple management teams to ensure appropriate integration of functions to meet goals as well as identify and define necessary system enhancements to deploy new products and process improvements.
• Manage a team of Applications Development professionals to accomplish established goals and conduct personnel duties for team (e.g. performance evaluations, training and development, hiring and disciplinary actions) as well as act as an advisor or coach to mid-level developers and analysts.
• Resolve variety of high impact problems/projects through in-depth evaluation of complex business processes, system processes, and industry standards
• Provide expertise in area and advanced knowledge of applications programming and ensure application design adheres to the overall architecture blueprint.
• Utilize advanced knowledge of system flow and develop standards for coding, testing, debugging, and implementation.
• Develop comprehensive knowledge of how areas of business, such as architecture and infrastructure, integrate to accomplish business goals.
• Provide in-depth analysis with interpretive thinking to define issues and develop innovative solutions.
• Serve as advisor or coach to mid-level developers and analysts, allocating work as necessary.
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating specific/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.

Core Responsibilities

This role is for a Data Engineering 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 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, Kudu, 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/Storm/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 including Payments, Digital Channels, Liquidities, Trade, Sales, Pricing, Client Experience
• Cross train and fertilize functional and technical knowledge,
• Align to Engineering Excellence Development principles and standards.
• Promote and increase our Development Productivity scores for coding.
• Fully adhere to and evangelize a full Continuous Integration and Continuous Deploy pipeline.

Qualifications:

• 12 plus years of relevant experience in Application Development and/or systems analysis role
• Extensive experience system analysis and in programming of software applications
• Experience in managing and implementing successful projects.
• Subject Matter Expert (SME) in at least one area of Applications Development
• Ability to adjust priorities quickly as circumstances dictate.
• Demonstrated leadership and project management skills.
• 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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