Solutions Architect / Enterprise Architect (Technical) - Markets Business Risk and Controls (SVP)

- Technical Solutions / Enterprise Architect - Markets Business Risk and Controls (SVP)

Overview

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.

Role Overview/What will you do:

This is a senior technology role to partner with the Markets Innovation and Investments Markets Business Risk and controls area to support their technology decisions.

As an Architect (Individual contributor), you will be expected to stay abreast of developments within your field, contribute to directional strategy, and be a recognized technical authority within the business unit.

Key Responsibilities include (but not limited to):

• Drive the delivery of the digital solutions supporting the strategic rollout of the Front Office workflow toolset as well as delivering remediation of the EUC's.
• Oversee continuous support for the Markets Investment, providing technological assessment of the startup's portfolio/pipeline.
• Provide continuous support to the Accelerator area, assessing scalability and technological viability of previous projects, and serve as a technology SME on best delivery and development practices for the Accelerator team.
• Provide support to the business tech team in productionizing applications created within the space and buildout an integration of them into the wide Citi technology ecosystem.
• Partner with the UX and UI leader within the organization to enhance user experience and align UI and user flows with Citi standards.
• Support client connectivity initiatives by working on existing projects to accelerate tech development and drive development of new projects from proof-of-concept to minimize reliance on business resources.
• Own end-to-end technological development, including resourcing supplement asks, for the front-to-back business systems to enable new digital assets products.
• Provide technical ownership for blockchain infrastructure development, maintenance, and integrations with Citi systems.
• Build analytical capabilities that help the Markets Business Controls function derive insights to reduce risks in the firm's environment.
• Lead the Technical feasibility reviews for Markets GenAI use cases prior to submission for prioritization.
• Meet with stakeholders, program sponsors, and First & Second line of defence (LODs) to define end-to-end business processes, high-level scope, roadmap, and other operational requirements.
• Leverage GenAI and AI/ML solutions to facilitate the following:
  • Aid testing automation by guiding businesses to define their controls and testing in a codified/well-structured manner.
  • Avoid duplication of controls and monitoring definitions and tools.
  • Framework to generate code from structured or codified monitoring definitions.
  • Promote enterprise applications and simplify the architecture landscape.
  • Retire duplicate functions and demonstrate technology and business efficiencies.

Key Skills and Experience required:

• Willingness to stay hands-on (This role will suit an engineer that actively reads and writes code).
• Experience as a solution architect or enterprise architect within a Trading Organisation, Investment Bank, or similar environment with good exposure to front, middle, and back office functions and their business processes.
• Experience in designing end-to-end technical solutions that address complex business challenges while ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability of architectural designs.
• Experience executing a cross-functional architectural vision for IT systems through major, complex IT architecture projects.
• Experience developing technology road maps while keeping up-to-date with emerging technologies.
• Experience providing technical leadership and is responsible for developing components of, or the overall systems design.
• Experience translating complex business problems into sound technical solutions.
• Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies, platforms, and processing environments, specifically around Banking technologies.

Any Beneficial / Nice to have skills and experience:

• Architectural certifications - TOGAF, ArchiMate, etc. would be beneficial but not a prerequisite.

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

What we'll provide you:

By joining Citi London, you will be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), receive a competitive base salary, and enjoy additional benefits such as:

• 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays).
• A discretional annual performance-related bonus.
• Private Medical Care & Life Insurance.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Pension Plan.
• Paid Parental Leave.
• Special discounts for employees, family, and friends.
• Access to an array of learning and development resources.

Alongside these benefits, Citi is committed to ensuring our workplace is where everyone feels comfortable coming to work as their whole self, every day. We want the best talent around the world to be energized to join us, motivated to stay, and empowered to thrive.

Job Family Group:

Technology

Job Family:

Applications Development

Time Type:

Full time

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