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Application Development Technical Lead Analyst - Vice President

Citi

Citi

IT
Palm Beach Gardens, FL, USA
Posted on Mar 18, 2026


The Applications Development Senior Manager is a Team lead level position responsible for participation in the establishment and implementation of new or revised application modules and programs in coordination with the Business & Technology team. The overall objective of this role is to lead application development team and guide / participate actively in design of new modules and programs and programming activities.

Responsibilities:

  • Conduct tasks related to feasibility studies, time and cost estimates, IT planning, risk technology, applications development, model development, and establish and implement new or revised applications systems and programs to meet specific business needs or user areas

  • Hands-on coding, design, testing support, debugging to ensure high-quality software delivery and deployment of Mainframe applications.

  • Analyze user requirements and translate them into technical specifications

  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather and analyze data requirements

  • Optimize mainframe programs for performance and efficiency

  • Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior developers

  • Participate in code reviews and conduct quality assurance activities

  • Acts as SME to senior stakeholders and /or other team members.

  • Utilize in-depth specialty knowledge of applications development to analyze complex problems/issues, provide evaluation of business process, system process, and industry standards, and make evaluative judgement

  • Providing regular status updates to the manager and work with minimal supervision

Qualifications:

  • 10+ years of IT experience

  • Expertise in Mainframe environment covering COBOL, CICS, DB2, JCL, VSAM, zAPI

  • Experience with Agile development methodologies

  • Integration & Security - WebSphere MQ (Messaging and inter-system communication), CICS MRO (Multi-region operation – CICS to CICS communication)

  • APIs (JSON/REST/SOAP integrations with mainframes via z/OS connect)

  • Working experience in a multi tech stack environment with Java front end and mainframe on the backend.

  • Good communicator and capable of handling stakeholders in other regions

  • Exposure to wealth management platforms is a plus. Willing to learn new tech stacks in the future as we modernize the Citi wealth platform


Education:

  • Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience


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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Job Family Group:

Technology

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Job Family:

Applications Development

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Time Type:

Full time

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Most Relevant Skills

Please see the requirements listed above.

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Other Relevant Skills

For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

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