Overview of Citi:

Citi is a world-leading global bank. We have approximately 200 million customer accounts and a presence in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions worldwide. We provide 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. We enable clients to achieve their strategic financial objectives by providing them with cutting-edge ideas, best-in-class products and solutions, and unparalleled access to capital and liquidity.

Overview of the organization:

The Engineering and Architecture Practice (EAP) is responsible for defining and executing the core architecture and technology strategy by working across the business units (Markets, Treasury and Trade Services, Banking, and Shared Services) and functions. Ensuring strategic alignment and efficiency of solutions across a diverse portfolio of engineering and transformation efforts. The

Operations Solution Engineering and Architecture capability sits within EAP and is responsible for the development of best-in-class technology platform for Operations, including development of an integrated portfolio of Operations tools, impact assessment and end-to-end solution design for large scale transformation initiatives, design governance, and adoption of Generative AI solutions for driving operational efficiencies.

Job Purpose:  

The Operations Solutions Engineer role is a critical hire within the group to lead the engagement and drive solution architecture and design across key initiatives – reconciliations, payments, and client onboarding. Successful candidate will be working with SMEs across front line Operations and Technology functions and transformation leads to identify demand drivers, develop business cases, identify process, data, system impacts and design overall solution design. The role reports directly into the Head of Operations Engineering and Architecture.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and maintain front-to-back solution architecture for critical transformation initiatives
• Establish target state process flows, operating model, and data definitions Work with technology teams to evolve system architecture
• Present at design governance forums to ratify proposals
• Collaborate with program team to define delivery roadmap with intermediate milestones to deliver target state
• Promote use of standards, design guard rails, and foundational components to deliver target state solutions
• Produce high-quality documentation and design artefacts
• Engage with diverse stakeholders across Ops and Tech LOB teams to drive consensus on requirements and a unified end-to-end design
• Clearly identify risks and proactively manage mitigation Coordinate and align reporting and communication

Experience (Must haves):

• At least 10+ years of experience in financial services
• Experience in Front, Middle and Back Office technologies on large scale, enterprise platforms
• Hands-on experience in developing solutions for Operations functions such as trade processing, payments, controls, reconciliations, regulatory reporting, etc.
• Proven track record as e2e solution architect leveraging micro-services, cloud, event driven frameworks
• Experience in domain based, functionally aligned design of large scale enterprise applications
• Experience in definition and adoption of data strategy to support functional, regulatory, and compliance requirements, e.g. payments event cache, non-finance reg. reporting, authoritative data sources
• Strong hands-on experience with Agile delivery, product management, value stream methodologies
• Strong communication skills and proven track record in producing quality project artefacts, including senior management reports within a technology or risk & controls domain
• Ability to structure and run design forums across diverse stakeholders to drive a consensus on requirements and develop and implement process, data, system designs
• Motivated self-starter with ability to learn new skills quickly and navigate the organization
• Expertise in designing large scale container technologies on micro services based environments.
• Rearchitect monolithic applications into re-usable and scalable micro services
• Experience in Java 8, SpringBoot, Python, Oracle/MongoDB & Docker/Kubernetes/Open Shift, messaging platforms

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science, or engineering. Masters degree preferred

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Job Family Group:

Technology

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Job Family:

Systems & Engineering

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Time Type:

Full time

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