Citi Group VP / Senior Solutions Architect 

United States, Florida, Jacksonville 

512502415

The Senior Solutions Architect candidate requires a strong knowledge and experience in developing architecture vision, strategy, and end to end solutions for complex financial business problems. The role will have a regional and global focus in the operations and technology space and requires the individual to work across a variety of stakeholders such asEnterprise Risk Management (ERM), Independent Compliance Risk Management (ICRM), Retail Credit Risk, Operational Risk, Model Risk, Internal Audit, O&T Business Risk Control and Citi Chief Administrative Office.

Responsibilities:

The new hire will be accountable for management ofcomplex/critical/largeprofessional disciplinary areas. Leads and directs a team of professionals. Requires a comprehensive understanding of multiple areas within a function and how they interact in order to achieve the objectives of the function. Applies in-depth understanding of the business impact of technical contributions. Strong commercial awareness is a necessity. Generally accountable for delivery of a full range of services to one or more businesses/ geographic regions. Excellent communication skills required to negotiate

• Create solution architecture artifact that are consistent with architecture principles, methodologies, and best practices with a goal of resilient and scalable cloud-based solutions.

• Provides thought leadership in subjects that are key to the business and lead portfolio simplification strategies to rationalize application landscape

• Interfaces with vendors to assess their technology and to guide their product roadmap based on Citi requirements.

• Lead design sessions with engineers and stakeholders to create innovative solutions

• Conduct proof of concept and proof of analysis on potential solutions with a failure fast mindset to drive target state

• Design common business functions and capabilities within the GRC ecosystem to simplify technology footprint and faster time to market

• Own and drive solution evaluation and build vs buy/partner analysis

• Communicate technology vision, strategies and solution across communities and cross functional teams.

• Provide expert knowledge of architecture and serve as SME to cross functional teams

• Provide architectural leadership and conduct assessment to adopt cyber, risk and control patterns and solutions.

Qualification

• 6-10 years relevant experience

• 6+ years of overall relevant banking, financial services experience

• At least 6 years of in a Solutions Architecture role in a large enterprise environments.

• Excellent communication skills

• Banking/Financial/Payment experience is a plus

• Expertise in developing architecture vision and strategic solutions

• Experience with modernizing and migrating applications to strategic architectures

• Expertise in building solutions with domain driven design (DDD), API, microservices, event-driven architecture and cloud native principles

• Expertise in modern languages (e.g. Java, C#), messaging, integration and data streaming technologies (e,g, Kafka, MQ etc..), caching & database (RDBMS and NoSQL) tools, application development framework (e.g. Spring boot, .NET), well architected framework, data integration solutions, software architecture patterns, and tools

• Expertise in application, data, and infrastructure architecture disciplines

• Awareness of industry trends and leveraging new technologies as appropriate

• Experience in collaborating and influencing cross-functional teams

• Passion to innovate with open-source mind set to improve products

• Experience with technology control framework, compliance, regulatory and audits

• Ability to create solutions at conceptual, logical, and physical levels

• Consistently demonstrate concise written and verbal communication

• Cloud certification (AWS, Microsoft Google, etc.) is a plus

• Demonstrated facility to interact and work effectively with diverse teams

• Ability to lead projects with multiple counterparts across organizations

• Ability to work under pressure, facilitate discussions and conduct group meetings

• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication

• Management and prioritization skills

• Ability to develop working relationships

• Ability to manage multiple activities and changing priorities

• Ability to work under pressure and to meet tight deadlines\

• Self-starter with ability to take the initiative and master new tasks quickly

• Methodical, attention to detail

• Bachelor’s/Universitydegree or equivalent experience, potentially Master’s degree/MBA

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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