UI Architect - VP

About Citi:

Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management.

As a bank with a brain and a soul, Citi creates economic value that is systemically responsible and in our clients’ best interests. As a financial institution that touches every region of the world and every sector that shapes your daily life, our Operations & Technology teams are charged with a mission that rivals any large tech company. Our technology solutions are the foundations of everything we do from keeping the bank safe, managing global resources, and providing the technical tools our workers need to be successful to designing our digital architecture and ensuring our platforms provide a first-class customer experience. We reimagine client and partner experiences to deliver excellence through secure, reliable, and efficient services.

Our commitment to diversity includes a workforce that represents the clients we serve from all walks of life, backgrounds, and origins. We foster an environment where the best people want to work. We value and demand respect for others, promote individuals based on merit, and ensure opportunities for personal development are widely available to all. Ideal candidates are innovators with well-rounded backgrounds who bring their authentic selves to work and complement our culture of delivering results with pride. If you are a problem solver who seeks passion in your work, come join us. We’ll enable growth and progress together.

Global Functions Technology (GFT) is a diverse organization in CITI, comprised of more than 15,000 talented professionals with some of the brightest minds – all working together to realize Citi’s Vision of growth and economic progress. As a group, we partner with the Finance, Risk, Compliance, and Human Resources teams to drive the delivery of innovative technology solutions using common data, analytics, and platforms. Our technology operates in real-time environments, capturing and managing market, transaction, and accounting data, as well as the data from millions of customers daily. Our solutions cover all products and geographies in which Citi does business. We are the backbone for reporting across the bank, satisfying our regulatory commitments, enabling our businesses to be nimbler and helping to safeguard customer assets through highly effective controls.

The UI Architect will be a leadership role responsible for ensuring the applications follow the strategic goals, have the right interface and experience characteristics required for a world class solution.  To be successful in this role, the candidate should have sufficient experience in building cutting edge UI interfaces servicing a large global userbase. The successful candidate will champion the users’ needs from an experience perspective as well as ensuring the right designs are in place.

Responsibilities:

• Define the vision for UI architecture and lead the design and development of applications leveraging modern tools and best practices.
• Lead multiple scrum teams across multiple regions working towards common vision and goals.
• Strategize and lead the development of Single Page UI application using Angular JS,  mono-repos with key focus on reusable components and micro frontends.
• Improve development efficiency by implementing testing automation
• Lead integration of functions to meet goals, deploy new products, and enhance processes.
• Analyze complex business processes, system processes, and industry standards to define and develop solutions to high level problems.
• Provide expertise in area of advanced knowledge of applications programming and plan assignments involving large budgets, cross functional project, or multiple projects.
• Develop application methodologies and standards for program analysis, design, coding, testing, debugging, and implementation.
• Utilize advanced knowledge of supported main system flows and comprehensive knowledge of multiple areas to achieve technology goals.
• Act as an advisor/coach to the development team to build competency in new technologies and design.
• Should be able to take initiatives to bring new technologies to the team.
• Should be able to suggest solutions to legacy platform to address existing problems.
• Influence and negotiate with senior leaders and communicate with external parties.
• 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:

• 7+ years of experience in designing and developing enterprise level UI applications.
• 5+ years of experience in architecting user interface , defining components and design paradigm.
• 4 plus years’ experience with Angular 4 and above (currently using Angular 13)
• Proficient in JavaScript, Typescript.
• Proficient in CSS 3, HTML 5, ES6+ and writing cross-browser compatible code.
• Built Angular Single Page Applications using micro-frontends.
• Experience with managing mono-repos using Nx.
• Built and maintained Build Scripts and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with automated testing using Cypress.
• Solid Experience with reactive programming concepts and RxJs (Observables)
• Solid Experience with NgRx or any other Redux libraries
• Expertise with Micro-frontend
• Experience with third-party libraries such as AG Grid or similar
• Strong understanding of UX and visual design paradigm.
• Experience in UI Unit Testing (Jasmine, Karma, Jest)
• Experience in E2E Testing (Protractor, Cypress)
• Working knowledge of Java 8 and above, backend REST APIs
• Experience with Agile (Scrum)
• Proven track record of building complex, high quality, performant user interfaces for large client populations
• Demonstrated User Interface and user Experience design and implementation skills
• Demonstrated knowledge of client core business functions
• Demonstrated leadership, project management, and development skills
• Relationship and consensus building skills

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience

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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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