Senior Technical and Functional Architecture Lead for Americas - C14 – Tampa, Irving, Jersey City

About Citi Services Technology

Citi Services, a business line within Citi, is embarking on a period of significant growth and investment. Citi Services offers the full spectrum of products in the domains of Payments, Liquidity, Trade and Working Capital, Investor services and Issuer services across multiple jurisdictions.

To meet the objectives of the business, Services Technology is undergoing an exciting transformation and modernization program focused on improving agility, scalability, and efficiency in how we operate and to ultimately deliver the best outcomes to our business and clients, and with continued differentiating product offerings.

About the Role

Core Accounts Technology is seeking an Architecture Lead for Americas who will be responsible for functional and technical architecture for key strategic programs, enabling delivery of comprehensive solutions that meet business and client requirements. This role will also contribute to the architecture governance ensuring adherence to the Citi architecture principles.

The candidate will work closely with technology, product and operations partners and evaluate business requirements and translate them into solution design, including selection of components, tools/technology and the integrations required for complete front to back experience. The candidate will provide thought leadership on enterprise architecture, data architecture and engineering excellence. The global nature of the role requires excellent navigation and communication skills across business and technology teams and regions to guide, influence technology and business stakeholders on strategic technical roadmaps.

The successful applicant will also need to lead engineering efforts to design and implement the infrastructure and tools for exciting new technologies that will shape the future of banking.

Responsibilities:

• Provide thought-leadership in solution design (functional and technical) across strategic programs by decomposing requirements and collaboratively developing solutions that adhere to Citi’s architecture principles and Services strategic blueprint.  
• Develop customized client solutions and strategies using proven methodologies to analyze the as-is situation and future-state requirements. Maintain continuous awareness of business, technical, and infrastructure issues and act as a thought leader in the development of creative solutions.
• Communicate solution architecture to stakeholders and collaborate with existing technology partners and domain architects in the formalization and adoption of IT standards and procedures.
• Own, manage and apply architecture governance on solutions diagrams, application integration design, application mappings and data concepts.
• Champion engineering excellence by actively promoting and governing the use of development standards and principles.
• Create traceability between service offering documents, business requirements and the design/build of solutions.
• Provide technical leadership across business analysts, development leads specializing in the Services domain, to have the broader team develop an understanding of all aspects of business, application, data, and infrastructure architecture.

Qualifications

• 12+ years overall experience in a banking / financial services industry
• 8+ years in technology leadership roles
• 5+ years experience with functional and technical architecture
• Experienced in architecture patterns as well as application integration design patterns for enabling digital transformation and platform modernization
• Expertise in architectural standards and governance adoption
• Expertise in technical analysis and ability to produce detailed mapping specifications and data flow diagrams.
• Exceptional communicating, influencing and engagement skills across all levels in the organization. Ability to carefully listen to management, technologists, and partners to devise the best design and explains complex concepts to non-technical colleagues
• Knowledge of external and internal systems integration techniques
• Preferred knowledge of Events based architecture patterns, and microservices design
• Preferred experience with High Throughput and Real Time systems with 24x7 capabilities
• Preferred experience with API design/development including REST, SOAP, JSON
• Experience with Oracle databases and best practices in data modeling and data flows
• Preferred experience with integration/middleware technologies such as TIBCO/FUSE, ETL tools like Talend
• Preferred experience with CI/CD tools and pipelines
• Hands-on technology leader who promotes and thrives in a culture of collaboration, partnerships, inclusion, and diversity. Experience with large scale transformations preferred, developing and supporting frameworks for High Throughput and Real Time systems

Education:

• Bachelor’s/University degree in computer science, computer engineering or a related field

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In addition to salary, Citi’s offerings may also include, for eligible employees, discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards. Citi offers competitive employee benefits, including: medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs. Citi also offers paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays. For additional information regarding Citi employee benefits, please visit citibenefits.com. Available offerings may vary by jurisdiction, job level, and date of hire.

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