Team/Position Overview

Trade Treasury Services TTS provides transaction and banking services to Citi’s Institutional Clients, and is truly a global organisation, having a presence in over 100 countries. TTS is one of the strongest businesses at Citi, delivering consistent quarter-on-quarter profitability and growth.

TTS EMEA Technology Payments and Receivables, processes millions of payments daily for 100+ different payment products across 54 EMEA branches. The Applications Development Manager will be responsible for delivering a complex book-of-work and ensuring the stability & resilience of technology platform.

Key Responsibilities:

• Deliver technology solutions to complex, enterprise level programs, managing the design, development, implementation, dependencies, risks and controls elements of the lifecycle.
• Lead software development teams of both permanent and vendor resources. Both on and offshore.
• Responsible for building and managing relationships with vendors who supply products and services to Citi and ensuring they meet or exceed their contractual obligations.
• Lead engineering excellence, continuous integration/delivery rollout and adoption.
• Lead project and application management standards adherence.
• Communicate project timelines and milestones; obtain senior management feedback; understand potential technical speed bumps and client’s true concerns/needs.
• Budget management, including identifying and realizing productivity improvements.
• Manage business/client relationships with the business contacts; build and sustain strong relationships with these client groups.
• Work with domain Architects and Business Analysts in design & product selection.
• Will work closely with Quality Control teams to deliver quality projects to agreed schedules.

Experience and Skills

• Proven track record of successfully managing software development teams.
• Client centric approach to solution design and delivery.
• Enthusiastic about building quality software products with world-class people, processes and tools.
• Experience of managing with an offshore delivery model.
• Effective negotiation skills, a proactive and 'no surprises' approach in communicating issues.
• Articulate and effective communicator, both orally and written, with an energetic and approachable style.
• Ability to contribute in an innovative environment with good analytical and business skills.
• Knowledge of development technology like Java, C#, SQL, Teamcity, Bitbucket, uDeploy, Big Data, Cloud, JIRA etc.
• Software development experience and technology project management experience
• BS/BA degree or equivalent combination of education/experience.
• Project management certification.
• Agile methods and knowledge
• Experience of working effectively in matrix organizational structures. Experience with Financial Services technology platforms.
• Fluent English is the must (other European language(s) will be a plus).

We offer:

• Opportunity to work in diversed and inclusive environment.
• Collaboration with a high quality team in a challenging areas of the financial industry and Team support.
• Exposure to a wide range of internal stakeholders as well as to senior management.
• Great place to work.
• Work with new technologies.
• Many different learning opportunities.
• Flexible working environment.
• Attractive conditions of employment and benefits.