Citi Group Central Operations Enterprise Systems Architect - New York Hybrid 

United States, New York, New York 

2462406

Job Purpose:

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and maintain cohesive front-to-back system architecture across Central Operations to reduce fragmentation, support shared services, automate controls, and reduce manual touch points
• Engage with Ops business and technology partners to understand business drivers, gaps, and pain points in current state
• Translate into system requirement. Lead the design of scalable, resilient, and secure systems that reduce complexity and support operational efficiency across business units
• Develop systems architecture blueprints covering current and target state system flows, control definitions, STP vs. manual processing, and data contracts
• Partner with business and technology stakeholders to define and enforce architecture principles, standards, and roadmaps
• Drive simplification initiatives across application and infrastructure landscape, eliminating redundancies and technical debt
• Decompose functionality across legacy, monolithic applications to be reengineered into shared services
• Ensure architectural consistency across projects, platforms, and technologies by promoting reuse of shared components and standardized frameworks
• Define and promote best practices for systems design, API strategies, data integration, and lifecycle management
• Identify optimal technical and data solutions for developing event based micro-services
• Evaluate low-code / no-code tools to support workflow automation, process mining, reporting and analytics
• Lead architecture governance process including architecture review boards, technology assessments, and conformance to key design principles
• Partner with SMEs across the CTO organization to understand emerging engineering, architecture standards and apply them across critical initiatives
• Produce high-quality documentation and design artefacts
• Efficiently build strong working relationship with Tech and Ops partners and become a thought leader in executing the target data strategy
• Recruit and build a team of business analysts, solution engineers

Experience and Qualifications:

• 15+ years experience in financial services with 7+ years supporting cross product / functional transformation
• 5+ years experience in leading large scale enterprise architecture initiatives within banking, financial services industry
• Strong understanding of banking systems, financial services platforms, core banking, data platforms, market infrastructure providers, and regulatory frameworks
• Experience with modern architecture frameworks including cloud-native designs, microservices, APIs, evet-based architecture, and DevOps practices
• Demonstrable success in leading architecture simplification and modernization initiatives with proven business value generation
• Experience with financial services standards such as ISDA FpML, FIX, ISO20022, internal product / process taxonomies is a plus
• Experience with financial services regulations such as mandatory execution, BCBS-239, reg. reporting, etc. is a plus
• Strategic thinker with creative problem-solving capabilities
• Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science, or engineering. Masters degree preferred
• Proven track record in producing quality project artefacts, including senior management reports within a technology or risk & controls domain
• Motivated self-starter with ability to pick up and learn new skills and knowledge quickly and navigate the organization
• Ability to build and manage strong teams

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