Systems Architect jobs at Citi Group in Canada

Responsibilities:

• Identify data and information needs for wholesale lending business of ICG

• Develop architecture, strategy, planning, and problem-solving solutions on an enterprise level

• Design and maintain blueprint of the information architecture, data integrations and controls aligned to the renewed business strategy

• Develop conceptual, logical, physical models and metadata solutions

• Define model and rationalize target state architecture, socialize with key stakeholders and conduct walkthrough

• Unify data concepts across disparate front office, credit risk, servicing and reporting functions of ICG

• Determine database structural requirements by analyzing client operations, applications and data from existing systems

• Participate in requirement engineering and working groups and collaborate with business leads, operations, SMEs, technologists and governance teams

• Collaborate with Enterprise, Sector and Federated architecture team and adopt recommendations

• Incorporate data standards and implement governance model

• Develop data flows, ownership matrixes and data lineage

• Implemented physical data model, contribute to the system and operational design, carry out optimization for usability and performance

• Provide leadership and guidance to junior team members

• Influence and negotiate with senior leaders across functions, as well as communicate with external parties as necessary

• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

Qualifications:

• 6+ years hand-on experience in Data Architecture, Data Science and/or Data Modeling expertise

• Financial industry knowledge in risk management, wholesale lending, servicing and risk/regulatory reporting

• Product knowledge in commercial banking, capital and investment banking and markets

• Extensive experience inrelational/hierarchical/OLTP/OLAP/BigData concepts

• Must have hands-on relational modeling, UML modeling and metadata management tools

• Good knowledge of modeling and architecture tools such as Magic Draw, Erwin, Enterprise Architect et.

• Experience in modeling and building complex IT systems

• Expertise in Data Management methodologies involving architecture, modeling, storage, security

• Good understanding of data governance - defining strategy, developing goals, principles and policies

• Prior experience in data integration, interoperability and data quality solutions

• Analytical and problem solver, excellent verbal, written and presentation skills

• Excellent influencing, meeting organization, and facilitation skill

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience

• Master’s degree preferred

• Certification in Data Architecture / Modeling is a plus

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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The Solutions Architect is a senior level position responsible for leading variety of architectural and engineering activities including the analysis of functional requirements, solutions design, evaluation of different options and presenting comparative analysis along with recommendation to senior stakeholders . You will apply in-depth domain knowledge of financial services to grasp all facets of the multiple dimensional business problems and develop solution options.

Responsibilities:

• Develop solution design options for enterprise wide initiatives, analyze pros and cons of different options and come up with a recommendation.
• Serve as a technology subject matter expert for internal and external stakeholders and provide direction for all firm mandated controls and compliance initiatives, all projects within the group and in creating a technology domain roadmap
• Evaluates and tests potential architecture solution designs to ensure they meet functional and non-functional requirements
• Ensure that all integration of functions meet business goals
• Define necessary system enhancements to deploy new products and process enhancements
• Identify problem causality, business impact and root causes
• Exhibit knowledge of how own specialty area contributes to the business and apply knowledge of competitors, products and services
• Advise or mentor junior team members
• Impact the solution design by influencing decisions through advice, counsel or facilitating services
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

Education and Experience:

• Degree / post graduate degree, preferably in computer science, computer engineering or business / management
• 10-15 years of relevant experience in an engineering and architectural role in Cash Management, Intra-day Liquidity, Payments, Financial Ledger, Regulatory reporting areas in Financial Services
• Experience working on large technology projects using industry-standard delivery methodologies (e.g., Agile/Scrum/Kanban)
• Experience working in enterprise architect and technology strategy roles
• Ability to develop working relationships
• Management and prioritization skills
• Strong decision making, forward thinking and creative problem-solving skills to anticipate and respond quickly to technological/market influences
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication
• Comprehensive knowledge of design metrics, analytics tools, benchmarking activities and related reporting to identify best practices
• Demonstrated analytic/diagnostic skills
• Ability to work independently, multi-task, and take ownership of various parts of a project or initiative
• Ability to work under pressure and manage to tight deadlines or unexpected changes in requirements

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• The group provides business information, administration, and helpdesk support globally.

• Retrieving business/financial related information leveraging from a broad set of resources (e.g., online databases, the internet, print sources, trade associations, etc.)
• Working closely with global staff requesting for information to ensure requests are processed in a timely manner and quality assurance is always maintained

• Comply with the ethical standards contained in the Citi Code of Conduct
• Ensure that the Private and Confidential information sought during the course of the work should be protected from disclosure. Individual will have an obligation to safeguard Confidential Information from loss or misuse, and to use it only in the performance of his / her employment responsibilities.

• Candidate should be a graduate (B.com/BMS/BFM/BAF/BBI/BBA)
• Ability to work in shifts in a fast-paced 24x7 operations
• Basic financial knowledge
• Strong team player skills, should be able to work collaboratively across teams and share knowledge and information appropriately
• Must be able to work well under pressure with high level of accuracy and to prioritize workload in order to deliver results to tight deadlines
• Should be able to communicate with global coordinators/teams on an ongoing basis with respect to various projects/assignments
• Knowledge of basic information retrieval systems like Factiva and Thomson products is preferred
• Understanding of different types of business information: i.e., public, and private company filing requirements/data, News, M&A and Capital Issues, Fundamentals, Broker Research and Earnings Estimates, Ownership data, etc. is preferred
• Ability to exercise independent thinking and balanced judgment

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