What are the responsibilities and job description for the Kafka Engineering Lead position at Citi?
The Engineering Lead Analyst is a senior level position responsible for leading a variety of engineering activities including the design, acquisition and deployment of hardware, software and network infrastructure in coordination with the Technology team. The overall objective of this role is to lead efforts to ensure quality standards are being met within existing and planned framework.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as a technology subject matter expert for internal and external stakeholders and provide direction for all firm mandated controls and compliance initiatives, all projects within the group and in creating a technology domain roadmap
- Ensure that all integration of functions meet business goals
- Define necessary system enhancements to deploy new products and process enhancements
- Recommend product customization for system integration
- Identify problem causality, business impact and root causes
- Exhibit knowledge of how own specialty area contributes to the business and apply knowledge of competitors, products and services
- Advise or mentor junior team members
- Impact the engineering function by influencing decisions through advice, counsel or facilitating services
- 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.
Qualifications:
- 6-10 years of relevant experience in an Engineering role
- Experience working in Financial Services or a large complex and/or global environment
- Project Management experience
- Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication
- Comprehensive knowledge of design metrics, analytics tools, benchmarking activities and related reporting to identify best practices
- Demonstrated analytic/diagnostic skills
- Ability to work in a matrix environment and partner with virtual teams
- Ability to work independently, multi-task, and take ownership of various parts of a project or initiative
- Ability to work under pressure and manage to tight deadlines or unexpected changes in expectations or requirements
- Proven track record of operational process change and improvement
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
- Master’s degree preferred
The Engineer Lead Analyst/Kafka Engineering Lead is Senior role within CTI Middleware services group responsible for engineering, architecture, design and delivery of resilient ,stable & cost effective Streaming(Kafka) technology platforms for infrastructure solutions which enables Citi application teams and business functions to develop and execute data streaming, messaging and analytical use cases. The new employee will apply his/her technical knowledge and interpersonal skills to uncover challenges and identify/develop solutions, ideally repeatable, to solve those challenges. He/She will serve as the subject matter expert in Systems configuration, capacity planning, performance analysis, automation, and infrastructure planning.
Skills Required :
- 6-8 years of demonstrated experience in Apache Kafka/Confluent Kafka platform technologies in an enterprise environment. Your technical proficiency includes Kafka architecture, administration & developer experience, strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills, and experience in one or more multi-platform environments(On Prem, Cloud or Containers)
- Confluent Kafka admin and developer certification is preferred.
- 4-8 years of hands on programming experience in one or more object-oriented languages such as Java or C and SQL/No SQL database technologies.
- 4-5 years of working experience in Linux and shell scripting, Ansible Automation with in depth knowledge of networking and one or more of security protocols (TCP/IP,MTLS,SSL,Kerberos etc.,)
- Experience in DevOps, scrum/agile methodologies and using CI/CD tools such as JIRA, Bit Bucket, Jenkins, Helm, Harness,TeamCity and RLM/Udeploy.
- Experience in software packaging, installation and build methods including maven, chef and ant.
- You have excellent social and organizational skills, able to handle diverse situations, multiple initiatives and changing priorities
- You have strong communication skills with the ability to influence manage and articulate clearly to project stakeholders and senior management
- You have a positive, do what it takes attitude to drive success
- You are a detail-oriented individual who has confidence with project tracking, reports, metrics and presentations and follow the ITIL process and controls.
- You are proficient with MS PowerPoint, Excel, Access, Project, or other analytical tools associated with project management
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Job Family Group: Technology
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Job Family:Systems & Engineering
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Time Type:Full time
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Primary Location:Tampa Florida United States
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Primary Location Salary Range:$105,850.00 - $158,780.00
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Salary : $105,850 - $158,780
