VP / Senior Solutions Architect

The Senior Solutions Architect candidate requires a strong knowledge and experience in developing architecture vision, strategy, and end to end solutions for complex financial business problems. The role will have a regional and global focus in the operations and technology space and requires the individual to work across a variety of stakeholders such as Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), Independent Compliance Risk Management (ICRM), Retail Credit Risk, Operational Risk, Model Risk, Internal Audit, O&T Business Risk Control and Citi Chief Administrative Office.

Responsibilities:

The new hire will be accountable for management of complex/critical/large professional disciplinary areas. Leads and directs a team of professionals. Requires a comprehensive understanding of multiple areas within a function and how they interact in order to achieve the objectives of the function. Applies in-depth understanding of the business impact of technical contributions. Strong commercial awareness is a necessity. Generally accountable for delivery of a full range of services to one or more businesses/ geographic regions. Excellent communication skills required to negotiate

• Create solution architecture artifact that are consistent with architecture principles, methodologies, and best practices with a goal of resilient and scalable cloud-based solutions.

• Provides thought leadership in subjects that are key to the business and lead portfolio simplification strategies to rationalize application landscape

• Interfaces with vendors to assess their technology and to guide their product roadmap based on Citi requirements.

• Lead design sessions with engineers and stakeholders to create innovative solutions

• Conduct proof of concept and proof of analysis on potential solutions with a failure fast mindset to drive target state

• Design common business functions and capabilities within the GRC ecosystem to simplify technology footprint and faster time to market

• Own and drive solution evaluation and build vs buy/partner analysis

• Communicate technology vision, strategies and solution across communities and cross functional teams.

• Provide expert knowledge of architecture and serve as SME to cross functional teams

• Provide architectural leadership and conduct assessment to adopt cyber, risk and control patterns and solutions.

Qualification

• 6-10 years relevant experience

• 6+ years of overall relevant banking, financial services experience

• At least 6 years of in a Solutions Architecture role in a large enterprise environments.

• Excellent communication skills

• Banking/Financial/Payment experience is a plus

• Expertise in developing architecture vision and strategic solutions

• Experience with modernizing and migrating applications to strategic architectures

• Expertise in building solutions with domain driven design (DDD), API, microservices, event-driven architecture and cloud native principles

• Expertise in modern languages (e.g. Java, C#), messaging, integration and data streaming technologies (e,g, Kafka, MQ etc..), caching & database (RDBMS and NoSQL) tools, application development framework (e.g. Spring boot, .NET), well architected framework, data integration solutions, software architecture patterns, and tools

• Expertise in application, data, and infrastructure architecture disciplines

• Awareness of industry trends and leveraging new technologies as appropriate

• Experience in collaborating and influencing cross-functional teams

• Passion to innovate with open-source mind set to improve products

• Experience with technology control framework, compliance, regulatory and audits

• Ability to create solutions at conceptual, logical, and physical levels

• Consistently demonstrate concise written and verbal communication

• Cloud certification (AWS, Microsoft Google, etc.) is a plus

• Demonstrated facility to interact and work effectively with diverse teams

• Ability to lead projects with multiple counterparts across organizations

• Ability to work under pressure, facilitate discussions and conduct group meetings

• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication

• Management and prioritization skills

• Ability to develop working relationships

• Ability to manage multiple activities and changing priorities

• Ability to work under pressure and to meet tight deadlines\

• Self-starter with ability to take the initiative and master new tasks quickly

• Methodical, attention to detail

Education:

• Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience, potentially Master’s degree/MBA

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

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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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