Citi Group Technical Solutions Architect - Markets Business 

United Kingdom, England, London 

567553050

Role Overview/What will you do:

As an Architect (Individual contributor), you will be expected to stay abreast of developments within own 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 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, technological viability of the previous projects as well as serve as a technology SME on the best delivery and development practices for the Accelerator team. In addition to that this role with proactively assess opportunity to scale solutions market wise to achieve effectiveness/synergies. Ensure all of the solutions within the Accelerator space are developed against best security standards including integrations with the Citi strategic authentication and authorization platforms
• Provide a support to the business tech team in productionizing application 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 org to enhance user experience and align UI and user flows with the Citi standards
• Support client connectivity initiatives via working on existing projects to accelerate tech development as well as drive development of the new projects from proof-of-concept point of view to minimise reliance on the 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 the blockchain infrastructure development, maintenance and integrations with the Citi systems
• Build analytical capabilities that would help the Markets Business Controls function to derive insights that can be used to reduce risks in firm’s environment.
• Lead the Technical feasibility reviews for Markets GenAI use cases prior to submission for prioritization. Work with partners within the technology to drive AI and NLP based solutions required by the business
• Meet with stakeholders, program sponsors, and First & Second line of defence (LODs) to define end-to-end business process, define high level scope and roadmap, and other operational requirements.
• Leverage GenAI and AI/ML solutions 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 eliminate duplicate functions and demonstrate technology and business efficiencies.

Key Skills and Experience required

• Willingnessto 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 the design end-to-end technical solutions that address complex business challenges whilst ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability of architectural designs.
• Experience in the execution of a cross functional architectural vision for IT systems through major, complex IT architecture projects; ensures that architecture conforms to enterprise blueprints.
• Experience developing technology road maps, while keeping up-to-date with emerging technologies, and recommends business directions based on these 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 but specifically around Banking technologies

Any Beneficial / Nice to have skills and experience:

• Architectural certifications – TOGAF, ArchiMate etc would be beneficial but not a pre requisite

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 not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), but also receive a competitive base salary (which is annually reviewed), and enjoy a whole host of 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

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