Digital Software Engineer Group Manager

• The Digital S/W Engineer Group Mgr is accountable for management of complex/critical/large professional disciplinary areas. Leads and directs a team of professionals.
• Generally accountable for delivery of a full range of services to one or more businesses/ geographic regions.
• Some external communication may be necessary.

Responsibilities

• Requires a comprehensive understanding of multiple areas within a function and how they interact in order to achieve the objectives of the function.
• Accountable for the end results of an area.
• Exercises control over resources, policy formulation and planning.
• Primarily affects a sub-function.
• Involved in short- to medium-term planning of actions and resources for own area.
• Full management responsibility of a team or multiple teams, including management of people, budget and planning, to include performance evaluation, compensation, hiring, disciplinary actions and terminations and budget approval.
• Design, implement, and deploy software components and solve difficult problems generating positive feedback.
• Effectively coach, help and give feedback to team members.
• Work independently and with team(s) to deliver software product successfully.
• Lead deliveries that are consistently of high quality (secure, testable, maintainable, low-defects, efficient, etc.) and incorporate best practices.
• Review design and code.
• Focus on operational excellence, constructively identifying problems, identifying and building solutions, taking on projects that improve software, making it better and easier to maintain.
• Make improvements to SDLC processes and be the end-to-end owner for all engineering activities from inception to post-implementation.
• Regularly provide insights, lessons learned, risks and opportunities to senior leaders.
• Manage employees and non-employees.
• Manage team and deliveries to the budget.

Requirements

• Applies in-depth understanding of the business impact of technical contributions.
• Strong commercial awareness is a necessity.
• Excellent communication skills required in order to negotiate internally, often at a senior level.

Preferred

• 15 or more years of relevant experience in development, delivery, and support of mission critical, customer facing applications progressively as engineer, engineer lead and engineer manager.
• Ability to self-learn new technologies and tools.
• Knowledge of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Large and Small Language Models, Retrieval Augmented Generation, AI Agents, Agentic AI, Generative AI, Predictive AI.
• Experience in using one or more of Copilot, Gemini, Claude, Devin Proficient in many, if not all, of these - React, JavaScript, HTML5, Java, Spring Boot, Python, Solace, MQ, JMS, Spring JPA, Hibernate ORM, JDBC, COBOL, Mainframe, Jenkins, Oracle, DB2, MongoDB.
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms, containers, CI/CD, and SaaS.
• Experience in design, build, and deployment of APIs & Microservices.
• Experience in BDD and test automation.
• Good knowledge of design patterns.
• Ability to design & build scalable and efficient solutions.
• Experience in Agile & Scrum methodologies.
• Experience in building frameworks and reusable shared components.

Education

Bachelor’s/University degree, Master’s degree preferred ------------------------------------------------------ Job Family Group: Technology ------------------------------------------------------ Job Family: Digital Software Engineering ------------------------------------------------------ Time Type: Full time ------------------------------------------------------ Most Relevant Skills Please see the requirements listed above. ------------------------------------------------------ Other Relevant Skills For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter. ------------------------------------------------------ Citi is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you are a person with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to use our search tools and/or apply for a career opportunity review Accessibility at Citi . View Citi’s EEO Policy Statement and the Know Your Rights poster.