Enterprise Architecture Solutions Architect, Vice President

Overview of the Role

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 Enterprise 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.

Job Description 

The Solutions Architect is a senior level position responsible for leading variety of architectural and engineering activities including the analysis of functional requirements, solutions design, evaluation of different options and presenting comparative analysis along with recommendation to senior stakeholders. Individual will apply in-depth domain knowledge of financial services to grasp all facets of the multiple dimensional business problems and develop solution options. Individual must have a passion for architectural simplification, and a demonstrable commitment for building sustainable, future-ready platforms 

Individual needs to be results-oriented, innovative and motivated to drive opportunities in efficiency gains, enhanced controls and extendible scalability.  This is articulated and demonstrated through various types of architectural artifacts. This high performing team designs enterprise-wide solutions for critical business needs leveraging solutions, business, technical, and data architecture.  Key stakeholders include operations teams, product teams and application development teams from different parts LoBs & functions within the organization. These engagements are global.   

Responsibilities:

• Develop solution design options for enterprise-wide initiatives, evaluate the art of the possible, and devise recommendation options across several evaluation dimensions 

• Define and maintain cohesive front-to-back system architecture across Central Operations to reduce fragmentation, support shared services, automate controls, and reduce manual touch points 

• 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 

• Lead architecture governance process including architecture review boards, technology assessments, and conformance to key design principles 

• Partner with SMEs across the CTO organization to understand emerging engineering, architecture standards and apply them across critical initiatives 

• Evaluates and tests potential architecture solution designs to ensure they meet functional and non-functional requirements 

• Ensure that all integration of functions fulfill business goals 

• Define necessary system enhancements to deploy new products and process enhancements 

• 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 

• Strong experience in data structures and its impact on design principles as well as proposals 

• Advise or mentor junior team members 

• Impact the solution design 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. 

Education and Experience:

• Degree / post graduate degree, preferably in computer science, computer engineering or business / management 

• 6-10 years of relevant experience in an engineering and architectural role in Cash Management, Intra-day Liquidity, Payments, Financial Ledger, Regulatory reporting areas in Financial Services 

• 2+ years experience in leading large scale enterprise architecture initiatives within banking, financial services industry 

• Strong understanding of banking systems, financial services platforms, core banking, data platforms, market infrastructure providers, and regulatory frameworks 

• Experience working on large technology projects using industry-standard delivery methodologies (e.g., Agile/Scrum/Kanban) 

• Experience working in enterprise architect and technology strategy roles 

• Ability to develop working relationships 

• Management and prioritization skills 

• Strong decision making, forward thinking and creative problem-solving skills to anticipate and respond quickly to technological/market influences 

• 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 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 requirements 

• This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.