Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Our core activities are safeguarding assets, lending money, making payments and accessing the capital markets on behalf of our clients.

 

Citi’s Mission and Value Proposition explain what we do and Strategy explain how we do it. Our mission is to serve as a trusted partner to our clients by responsibly providing financial services that enable growth and economic progress. We strive to earn and maintain our clients’ and the public’s trust by constantly adhering to the highest ethical standards and making a positive impact on the communities we serve.

Services is a leading provider of cash management, treasury, trade, clearing, depository receipts and commercial cards services. Services has a global network spanning more than 100 countries and is unique in the industry for its reach and product offering. We provide clients with dynamic information, tools, and APIs to effectively manage their portfolios, financial positions, working capital and supply chains.

One of the key functions within Services is Core Banking Technology. This group is responsible for technology that drives Core Banking capabilities for our clients. Core Accounts Technology is currently undergoing a multi-year large scale transformation tackling eCommerce-scale growth programs as well as retirement of the legacy infrastructure, building out of a next generation best in class set of capabilities that will evolve as our Client, Market and Regulatory needs evolve across the globe.

As such, we are looking for talented technologists to help build the future of global banking. This is an incredible opportunity to be part of a worldwide transformation to a future state global digital banking platform

Job Description

Data Engineering Group Manager for Core Accounts will be responsible for modernizing and optimizing data distribution flows and integration with Data Lakes, Finance systems, Data Warehouses, and other consumers of DDA, Customer and Account data. This role will develop engineering solutions to reduce latency, increase flexibility and reduce technical debt. This role will work with global teams supporting a franchise critical business, and partner with CTI Infrastructure teams, STE Standard Operating Environments, Application teams for evolving the data highways across Services.

Responsibilities:

• The position will be responsible for re-engineering the interaction of incoming and outgoing data flows from the Core Accounts DDA platform to Reference Data platforms, Data Warehouse, Data Lake as well as other local reporting systems which consume data from Core Accounts

• Drive the data architecture and roadmap for eliminating non-strategic point to point connections and batch handoffs

• Define canonical data models for key entities and events related to Customer, Account, Core DDA in line with the Data Standards

• Assess opportunities to simplify/rationalize/refactor the existing database schemas paving way for modularization of the existing stack

• Rationalize 100+ handoffs from DDA applications running on Abinitio and Talend in 70+ countries and define common Taxonomy

• Design an Operational Data Store for intra-day and end-of-day reporting. Implementing data strategies and developing logical and physical data models.

• Design self-service reporting capabilities for Operations, using latest tools and technologies

• Formulate efficient approach to rationalize and migrate thousands of reports to new infrastructure

• Build and nurture a strong engineering organization to deliver value to internal and external clients

Qualifications

• Significant experience in Data modeling, Data lineage analysis, Operational reporting, preferably in a global organization

• Proven architecture experience in building horizontally scalable, highly available, highly resilient data distribution platforms

• Proficient in message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable ‘big data’ data stores.

• Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases.

• Experience building and optimizing ‘big data’ data pipelines, architectures and data sets.

• Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement.

• Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets.

• Extensive experience with Data Integration patterns.

• Extensive experience with Real/Near Real time streaming patterns.

• Preferred Experience/Familiarity with one or more of these tools

  • Big data platforms - Hadoop, Apache Kafka

  • Relational SQL,NoSQL, and Cloud Native databases - Postgres, Cassandra, Snowflake

  • Experience with data pipeline and orchestration tools - Azkaban, Luigi, or Airflow

  • Experience with AWS cloud services -  EMR, RDS, Redshift

  • Experience with stream-processing engines - Apache Spark, Apache Storm,  or Apache Flink

  • Experience with ETL tools - Talend, Ab Initio

  • Experience with Data Analytics/visualization tools - Looker, Mode, or Tableau

• 12+ years relevant industry experience, 7+ years of data modeling experience

Education

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience

• Master’s degree preferred

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Job Family Group:

Technology

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Job Family:

Applications Development

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Time Type:

Full time

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Primary Location:

Jersey City New Jersey United States

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Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:

$176,720.00 - $265,080.00

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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Anticipated Posting Close Date:

Sep 30, 2024

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