Software Engineering Group Manager- Hybrid

The Software Engineering Group Manager is a senior management level position responsible for accomplishing results through the management of software teams at a business domain level to establish best in class practices and implement new or revised enterprise class application systems in coordination with the larger Technology organization. Generally accountable for delivery of a full range of services to one or more businesses/geographic regions. Excellent communication skills required to negotiate internally and externally, often at a senior level. Accountable for the end results of an area or functional domain. Full management responsibility of multiple teams, including management of people, budget, and planning, to include performance evaluation, compensation, hiring, disciplinary actions and terminations and budget approval.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and communicate department vision that supports the broader organizational vision; ensure team culture consistently demonstrates alignment with leadership principles; and visibly ties department decisions to leadership principles and tenets
• Lead the development, implementation, and delivery of successful large-scale, critical and/or challenging software efforts involving significant work (can be new software or a refactor of existing software).
• Manage multiple teams of professionals to accomplish established goals and conduct personnel duties for team (e.g., performance evaluations, hiring and disciplinary actions)
• Influence and negotiate with senior leaders across functions, as well as communicate with external parties as necessary.
• Think in terms of architecture, not just code. Have detailed knowledge of the work done by your team and proactively work to improve consistency and integration between your software and related software (owned by other teams).
• Influence your team's technical and business strategy by making insightful contributions to team priorities and approach. You take the lead in identifying and solving ambiguous problems, architecture deficiencies, or areas where your team's bottlenecks for innovation. Make software simpler.
• Able to communicate your ideas effectively to achieve the right outcome for your team and customers. Harmonize discordant views and lead the resolution of contentious issues (build consensus).
• Demonstrate technical influence.
• Demonstrate the ability to attract senior talent and multiple functions from inside and outside of company. Teach others how to set high organizational performance standards, determine performance measures and goals and establish a leadership bar. This will require the ability to facilitate understanding of broader organizational tenets and strategic goals for department.
• Recognize trends for larger-scale development needs within and across teams and builds plans to develop skills. Share talent development best practices across organization.
• Actively participate in the hiring process as well as mentor others - improving their skills, their knowledge of software, and their ability to get things done.
• 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 of relevant experience.
• Significant experience building and managing engineering teams aligned to complex business and/or transactional models.
• Has thrived and succeeded in delivering high quality technology products / services in a high growth environment where priorities shift rapidly.
• Ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions and develop business cases.
• First-class leadership and influencing skills
• Ability to pick up new technologies.
• Strong innovation drive.
• Demonstrated interpersonal and talent management skills, including the ability to identify and develop talent.

Education:

• Bachelor's/University degree, Master's degree preferred

Job Family Group:
Technology

Job Family:
Applications Development

Time Type:
Full time

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