Job Description

Responsibilities The Applications Development Manager is an intermediate management level position responsible for providing full leadership and direction to a team of employees 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 lead applications systems analysis and programming activities.
Responsibilities:
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
Oversee process for technical issue escalation and prioritize technical issue resolution
Leverage skills across Applications Development area to provide technical oversight across systems and applications
Communicate internal and external departmental interdependence as well as cross product and cross project
Resolve issues using in-depth knowledge of concepts and procedures within applications development
Utilize in-depth specialty knowledge of applications development to analyze complex problems/issues, provide evaluation of business processes, system processes, and industry standards, and make evaluative judgement
Contribute to planning, budget management, formulation of procedures, and resource planning negotiating with external parties when necessary
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:
10 years hands on experience
Strong Knowledge in one of the project management methodologies
Experience in designing and implementing Multi-tier applications
Excellent analytic & problem solving skills
Excellent knowledge in troubleshooting, performance tuning and best practices
Experience in Messaging, failover designing and recovery planning
Experience in delivering high quality applications
Experience in project risk identification techniques, mitigation and escalation
Familiar with all phases of the systems lifecycle, from analysis, design and development through to support
Experience in developing performance sensitive multi-tier Java/JEE applications
Knowledge of the FX/MM/FI market and products is very desirable.

Skills:

Strong interpersonal and articulation skills (spoken and written)
Excellent persuasive, influencing and negotiation skills
Outstanding analytic and problem solving skills; innovative and solutions oriented

Technical
Essential:
Excellent knowledge in Java (JDK 1.7 or more) Excellent knowledge inperience with JMS, JEE, Jsp, Servlets, Struts 2.0 and SQL/PLSQL Basics
Java performance tuning, Threads, Collections
Knowledge of any application server

Desirable
Any Project Management Tool
Messaging middlewares
Spring, SWING
Oracle11g
Weblogic server/App server administration
H5

Beneficial:
MQ/Tibco
Flexcube, Flex PP etc.

Education:
Bachelors degree/University degree or equivalent experience
Education: Any Graduate
Industry: Banking

Skills Required