Application Development Sr Group Manager, Director

Location: Jersey City, New Jersey, United States

Employment Type: Regular

Overview of Citi:

Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management.

As a bank with a brain and a soul, Citi creates economic value that is systemically responsible and in our clients’ best interests. As a financial institution that touches every region of the world and every sector that shapes your daily life, our Enterprise Operations & Technology teams are charged with a mission that rivals any large tech company. Our technology solutions are the foundations of everything we do from keeping the bank safe, managing global resources, and providing the technical tools our workers need to be successful to designing our digital architecture and ensuring our platforms provide a first-class customer experience. We reimagine client and partner experiences to deliver excellence through secure, reliable, and efficient services.

Our commitment to diversity includes a workforce that represents the clients we serve from all walks of life, backgrounds, and origins. We foster an environment where the best people want to work. We value and demand respect for others, promote individuals based on merit, and ensure opportunities for personal development are widely available to all. Ideal candidates are innovators with well-rounded backgrounds who bring their authentic selves to work and complement our culture of delivering results with pride. If you are a problem solver who seeks passion in your work, come join us. We’ll enable growth and progress together.

Overview of the Role:

The Applications Development Senior Group 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:

• Own the end-to-end technology strategy, architecture, and delivery for wealth-lending platforms, including securities-based lending, margin lending, structured credit, mortgages, and bespoke lending solutions.
• Lead the design and evolution of lending portfolio management tools, enabling real-time visibility into exposures, collateral coverage, utilization, concentration, and risk across client and portfolio reviews.

• Drive the development of margin lending value calculators and analytics, supporting pricing, profitability, risk-adjusted returns, capital efficiency, and client decisioning.
• Remain hands-on with critical architecture, complex analytics design, code reviews, and high-impact delivery decisions, setting a high technical and analytical bar.
• Apply exceptional analytical thinking and fluid intelligence to solve ambiguous, multi-dimensional problems spanning lending economics, risk, capital, and regulatory constraints.
• Translate complex wealth-lending, margin, collateral, and regulatory requirements into resilient, extensible platforms and data models.
• Partner closely with senior business, risk, finance, and operations stakeholders to align portfolio analytics, margin economics, and platform capabilities with commercial and risk objectives.
• Lead and scale a large, globally distributed engineering organization, driving accountability, strong execution discipline, and a culture of engineering excellence.
• Balance near-term delivery commitments with long-term platform sustainability, ensuring scalability, resiliency, and technical de are actively managed.
• Establish and govern engineering standards across security, performance, data quality, model transparency, and regulatory compliance in a highly controlled environment.
• Leverage deep wealth-lending domain expertise to identify opportunities for straight-through processing, automation, margin optimization, and improved portfolio outcomes.
• Use telemetry, metrics, and data-driven insights to measure platform health, portfolio performance, margin utilization, delivery predictability, and operational risk.
• Drive multi-year modernization initiatives, including cloud adoption, API-first and event-driven architectures, and analytics platform integration.
• Build, mentor, and retain senior engineering leaders, creating a strong leadership bench and succession pipeline.
• Own delivery outcomes across multiple concurrent programs, ensuring predictable execution, transparent communication, and high-quality results.
• Influence firm-wide technology and analytics strategy by articulating trade-offs, investment priorities, and long-term value creation.
• 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.
   

Qualifications:

• 15+ years of relevant experience; 8-10+ years of managerial experience preferred
• PMP Certification, MBA, Specific to business Licenses and other
• Experience with financial products
• Working knowledge of the industry and competitors’ products and services
• Advanced knowledge of strategic direction of the function within relevant part of the business
• Proficient computer skills with a focus on Microsoft Office applications
• Demonstrated leadership, management, and development skills

Education:

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

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In addition to salary, Citi’s offerings may also include, for eligible employees, discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards. Citi offers competitive employee benefits, including: medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs. Citi also offers paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays. For additional information regarding Citi employee benefits, please visit citibenefits.com. Available offerings may vary by jurisdiction, job level, and date of hire.

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