Citi

Lead Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Senior Vice President

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18 hours ago
Chennai, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Conduct targeted engagements with development teams to improve safe and rapid release cadence and vulnerability resolution.
  • Build automated test suites, including locally runnable tests and deployment smoke tests, and integrate and mask test data.
  • Upgrade runtimes, open-source libraries, dependencies, base images, operating systems, and other installed software while implementing processes for continuous updates.
  • Containerize applications and improve source control, branch management, code review, security patterns, secrets management, authentication, and authorization.
  • Simplify and automate application deployments, including database changes with Liquibase and installed software with Ansible.
  • Introduce observability patterns, improve exception handling and logging, and implement resilient hot-hot cross-datacenter deployment topologies.
  • Coordinate the activities of the regionally deployed Forward Deployed Engineer team.
  • Lead by example as a hands-on practitioner, with the position approximately 70% coding and configuration.

Requirements

  • Several years of experience with Test-Driven Development using multiple test frameworks and strong knowledge of automation-testing approaches.
  • Proficiency in JVM languages, with TypeScript experience optional, and excellent coding skills.
  • Strong understanding of safe practices for critical systems, deployment architecture, observability, secure coding, and continuous integration and deployment systems.
  • Competence with Docker, OpenShift, Red Hat Linux, Gradle, Maven, npm, and AI-assisted coding; Spring and Ansible skills are advantageous.
  • 12+ years of relevant experience, including application development experience.
  • Experience in management and managing global technology teams.
  • Working knowledge of industry practices and standards with clear and concise written and verbal communication.
  • Bachelor’s or university degree, or equivalent experience; a master’s degree is preferred.

Tech Stack

AnsibleDockerGradleJavaMavennpmOpenShiftTypeScript

Categories

Forward Deployed
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About Citi

10,000+ employees

Citi is a public financial-services company offering consumer and institutional banking, credit cards, wealth management, treasury and trade solutions, and capital-markets services. It serves individuals, corporations, financial institutions, and governments in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions, earning interest and fee income from lending, payments, trading, and advisory. Founded in 1812 and headquartered in New York, it trades on the NYSE under the ticker C.

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