Citi Group Application Development - Director 

United States, District of Columbia, Washington 

159559707

About Citi:

Citi’s Functions Technology is responsible for delivering Technology solutions to Citi's Functions organizations. Functions Technology mission is to optimize Citi's Technology environment by delivering world class applications, driving standardization of the production environment, reducing complexity, optimizing management of systems supporting global functions such as Compliance, Controls, Internal Audit and Risk, and introducing innovative technologies that provide new business capabilities, reduce the technology total cost of ownership, and create a competitive advantage for Citi.

Job Description:

The position Retail Risk Apps Development Director within Retail Risk Technology (RRT) is a Director level role who will provide strategic technology direction for RRT in pursuit of its technology target state, enterprise platforms and aligning with corporate initiatives related to all Retail Risk Technology.

Responsibilities:

• Lead Retail Risk Technology engineering technical strategy, architecture and application design; envisioning business purpose, managing risks, process efficiency and user-interface design; Develops deep technical understanding of key systems, processes and interdependencies.

• Design and leverage enterprise tools, processes and functionality to execute key Retail Risk processes and applications in a consistent enterprise framework ensuring effective business controls are established and maintained.

• Accountable for completion of all project deliverables within book of work and ensures completion and communication of Risk mitigation plans, critical path and dependencies, project recovery and business continuity plans

• Directs, manages, implements and executes on business solutions, overseeing and optimizing projects, project teams and project performance

• Drives delivery and continuous improvement by utilizing feedback and metrics to identify areas of opportunity leverage industry proven frameworks and drive the appropriate methodology to focus on predicable, quality delivery and driving continuous improvement of the organization

• Monitors key milestones and outcomes of projects in the program(s) throughout the project lifecycle to ensure adherence to established quality standards

• Oversees and contributes to the development of project definition and scope at the project level

Skills & Abilities:

• Excellent interpersonal, communication and leadership skills

• Demonstrated ability to build strong trusted relationships and foster collaboration and teamwork in a variety of settings

• Strong resource management, set scope, time scales and deliverables, recognizing changing requirements and addressing program/project impacts, influencing without authority when needed.

• Ability to provide constructive criticism, feedback and solutions, scope out and develop work plan and resource requirements and estimate costs and risks associated with activities

• Mastery of complex facilitation of dependency management techniques

Competencies:

• Fully accountable for timelines, completeness, quality of projects, processes, products and services

• Broad scope of understanding of complex systems and how to modernize them.

• Helps partners to understand how proposed changes will affect them and the organization.

• Brings out the best in each team member by consistently motivating and acknowledging peer contributions.

• Understands and leverages team dynamics.

• Remains calm and focused on goals while facing pressure, obstacles or short-term setbacks

• Identifies and eliminates redundancy of effort

• Ensures tools, systems and processes are in place to allow team members to work quickly and effectively

• Improves relationships between key individuals to achieve seamless cross-team workflow and positively impact results

• Takes proactive action to maintain relationships that are impacted by change

Qualifications:

• 15+ years of senior technology leadership experience

• 10+ years of experience with financial products

• 10+ years of software delivery management experience

• Good experience in software engineering and building financial platforms

• Working experience of partnering with Program Management Office and Business stakeholders

• Working experience of managing large delivery teams

• Working knowledge of the industry and competitors’ products and services

• Advanced knowledge of strategic direction of the function within relevant part of the business

• Demonstrated leadership, management, and development skills

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience

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