**Brief Description of the Organization**
Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. 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 publics trust by constantly adhering to the highest ethical standards and making a positive impact on the communities we serve.
Citis Personal Banking and Wealth Management (PBWM) Engineering and Architecture (E&A) function is building a purpose-driven team to serve its globally diverse, digitally forward customers in top cities around the world. Were looking for exceptional candidates who think digitally and differently, resolve problems in unconventional ways and strive to provide a remarkable experience for our clients. We define success by our Citi Leadership Standards: We Take Ownership; We deliver with Pride and We Succeed Together.
**Overview of the Role**
Solution Engineering & Architecture Practice Head for **Digital** function will be responsible Digital strategy Globally supporting Personal Banking (PB APAC & EMEA) and Citi Global Wealth (CGW) - Globally.
An ideal candidate for this Global role will be a Senior Architect responsible for driving bank's Global Digital strategy and capabilities. This person will work with NAM, LATAM, APAC & EMEA Retail, Wealth, Banking, Lending, Trust and Credit Cards lines of businesses and architecting with other regional and sector partners. The selected candidate will orchestrate a forward-looking technology plan to provide market-competitive (or differentiated as needed) capability at optimal speed and/or total cost of ownership.
Specifically, this role is expected to develop market insight, perform competitive assessments, understand, and inform business and technology strategy, document the reference architecture, and maintain a roadmap of capability that align with Business drivers and investments. This is a Leader of Leaders role and the person joining this role will manage multiple teams through other managers. This role and function will an integral member of the & technical functional leadership team
A deep understanding various front-end frames, web design, development techniques and mobile SDK integrations. Knowledge & awareness of trends in domains related Mobile, Web, Smart devices, AR, VR, Biometric trends, AI/ML is required to develop digital strategies around web 3.0 & beyond.
In partnership with regional and enterprise architecture leaders the role will require reviewing existing global & regional banking & lending landscape, identify opportunities, gaps risk based on current state, industry trends and future technology development to provide an overarching architecture & guidance for delivering to our clients, new and innovative digital services & user experience.
The role requires expertise at evaluating and identifying appropriate technology platform alternatives for delivering the company's services and determining the right mix of internally built and externally procured systems and demonstrating how these solutions can be seamlessly integrated into the Citi Wealth ecosystem.
This role reports to the global Head of Engineering and Architecture Practice for Citi Global Wealth.
**Primary Responsibilities:**
+ Maintain and apply a broad and current industry perspective on technology trends/opportunities, alternate solution providers and ranking, leading practices and our position/capability/performance relative to direct competitors and parallel industries/organizations. Ensure technology roadmaps are developed within the context of expected market developments and the opportunities/threats they present
+ Demonstrate technology thought leadership, foster productive business relationships and build strong sponsorship of our technology architecture and roadmap. Understand and influence business strategy, ensuring its informed by current and emerging technology capability and supported by our architecture and roadmap
+ Maintain domain Level comprehensive technology roadmaps encompassing application and related infrastructure services that are consistent with the reference architecture and phased in accordance with business priorities, investment and risk appetite and regulatory, risk and compliance requirements
+ Provide architectural leadership for technology solutions for Hybrid, Native, React, Micro-frontend, PWA, Cloud native application development techniques.
+ Review & provide Architectural Design for building and implementing high scalable, reliable, resilient, secure mobile and web applications.
+ Recommend and guide in developing and adopting reusable components, APIs to accelerate delivery and leverage cloud native solutions, services.
+ Provide domain leadership within regional architecture forums, ensuring the reference architecture and roadmap for Digital domain are informed by practical requirements and that design decisions remain consistent with the architecture and roadmap; ensure appropriate governance of exceptions and stringent follow-up to ensure all conditions of approval are met within the committed timeframe
+ Foster a strong global & regionally aligned solution architect/design community with intimate knowledge of reference architecture and roadmap, and oversee a governance process that will ensure reference architecture and roadmaps remain relevant within regional context and central to individual investment and project decisions
+ Ensure early engagement of partner organizations (e.g., Citi Engineering) in the development of the reference architecture and roadmap. Ensure planned capability can be satisfied by partner organizations within the timeframe required. Assist in managing the consistency of partner organizations across regions
+ Develop talent in this domain and partner organizations such as engineering and delivery teams; develop a learning environment; demonstrate teamwork, respect and collaboration across the CTO function and other partner organizations, and foster a culture of innovation, commercial savvy, dependability, pragmatism and excellence.
+ Ensure all regulatory, compliance and internal control requirements are met, while maintaining a measured view of risk affecting all areas of Engineering and Architecture responsibility and structured and visible plans for mitigation of this risk
+ Drive Cloud adoption and leverage cloud enabled technologies in banking, lending domain
**Qualifications:**
+ Bachelors degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field.
+ 15+ years in senior technology/engineering leadership roles within financial services or a related industry; specific experience in strategy development, enterprise and/or solution architecture and systems integration in a complex distributed environment employing a mix of modern and legacy technologies
+ Comprehensive functional and technical knowledge within the assigned or related domain developed through practical experience in defining and delivering technology solutions within a global and diverse financial services environment
+ Core processor domain market insights. In-depth hands-on knowledge of integration and streaming platform, on-prem hosted platforms and cloud technologies (SaaS, PaaS and IaaS)
+ Strongly developed strategic, analytical and communication skills evidenced by experience in formulating strategic scenarios, evaluating trade-offs within a robust commercial framework, developing related financial models and designing practical execution plans
+ Practical experience in architecture roles within a complex commercial environment including assisting in setting architectural principles, helping define the reference architecture, building technology roadmaps aligned with business plans and helping to institute governance to ensure alignment of investment to strategy/architecture
+ Ability to influence and negotiate with senior leaders (across functions); may communicate and negotiate with external parties
+ Strong interpersonal and communication skills; proven ability to engage and influence technology and business stakeholders at most levels within an organization on complex
+ technical and commercial concepts
+ Proven ability to assist in attracting, developing, engaging and sustaining world-class engineering/technical talent; build collaborative higher performing teams and foster a culture of innovation and excellence
+ Role Specific Experience:
+ A deep understanding various front-end frames, web development techniques spring boot, NodeJS, Angular JS, Angular Redux, Backbone, Kotlin, Flutter, REACT, jQuery, Microservices architecture pattern, API, Federated Services, Web Services, REST, GraphQL, HTML5, CSS, SQL, Non-SQL database, Swift, Java, C++, web sockets, security aspects for mobile, web design and mobile SDK integrations.
+ Experience in formulating and executing commercial arrangements for products and/or services
+ Broad financial expertise with knowledge of corporate affairs, financial and economic fundamentals, and business policies, products, processes, systems and roles.
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**Job Family Group:**
Technology
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**Job Family:**
Architecture
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**Time Type:**
Full time
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