Citi Group Collateral Management - Technical Architect SVP IRVING 

United States, Texas, Irving 

663817006

At this level, you will:

• drive enterprise level architecture and design decisions to enable the execution and delivery of large-scale business applications.
• undertake structured analysis of technical issues, translating this analysis into technical designs that describe a solution and communicate design decisions
• be consulted about design and provide design patterns
• identify deeper issues that need fixing
• look for opportunities to collaborate and reuse components, communicating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• work alongside Enterprise Architecture review team and enforce adequate engineering principles and best practices

• Bridging the gap between the technical and non-technical . You can mediate between people and mend relationships, communicating with stakeholders at all levels. (Relevant skill level: expert)
• Governance. You can evolve and define governance and take responsibility for collaborating and supporting services in wider governance. You know how to assure services delivered by technical architects across sets of services. (Relevant skill level: practitioner)
• Making and guiding decisions . You can make decisions characterized by medium levels of risk and complexity and recommend decisions as risk and complexity increase. You can build consensus between services or independent stakeholders. (Relevant skill level: practitioner)
• Strategy . You can define and challenge strategies, patterns, standards, policies, roadmaps and vision statements. You can provide proactive advice and guidance for their definition across the organisation. (Relevant skill level: practitioner)
• Turning business problems into technical design. You can design systems characterized by high levels of risk, impact and business or technical complexity. (Relevant skill level: expert)
• Understanding the whole context . You can understand trends and practices within the broader organization and how these will impact on your work. You can look for deeper underlying problems and opportunities and anticipate problems before they occur. You can identify the impact of changes to policy. (Relevant skill level: practitioner)
• Experience in defining micro services
• Good technical knowledge of Cloud technologies
• Experience in defining and developing high-volume, horizontally scalable web architectures
• Experience in defining and developing message driven workflow
• Experience of promoting Continuous Delivery practices within teams Experience of working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams with a focus on delivery
• Experience evaluating technologies for their appropriateness to proposed solutions, including assessing their strategic and/or tactical benefit to the product or wider department
• Thorough understanding of how the web works including low-level HTTP(s) and TCP
• Analytical thinking - able to simplify complex problems, processes or projects into component parts explore and evaluate them systematically
• Strategic thinking – able to identify a vision along with the plans, which need to be implemented to meet the end goal, evaluating situations, decisions and issues in the short, medium and long term.
• Influencing and persuading - able to present sound and well-reasoned arguments to convince others. Adapts to the situation and can draw from a range of strategies to persuade people in a way that results in agreement or behaviour change
• Communication - able to get one’s message understood clearly by adopting a range of styles, tools and techniques appropriate to the audience and the nature of the information
• Managing relationships and team working - able to build and maintain effective working relationships with a range of people. Works co-operatively with others to be part of a team, as opposed to working separately or competitively
• Experience in Agile process

• 10+ years of hands-on experience in relevant technologies
• 8+ years of architect experience – must have architected complex, low latency and scalable solutions
• Demonstrated leadership, management, and development skills.
• Proven hands-on experience developing a loosely coupled micro-services in the Java (8+) technology stack including spring, spring-boot, spring-data, JPA, Kafka, REST-ful architecture, maven/gradle, Web Sockets, TDD.
• Must have experience in Message Oriented Middleware architecture and products such as Kafka, TIBCO, Apache MQ.
• Experience with NoSql and Relational DBs like Mongo, Oracle.
• Experience with performance tuning of code base using relevant tools.
• Experience in working with Cloud based deployments, Docker
• Experience with DevOps – creating pipeline, CI/CD, Git, Gitflow branching merging
• Strong understanding of Object-oriented design, GoF patterns.
• Working experience in message formats such as XML / JSON.
• Strong working experience with Web service technologies such as REST, JSON, SOAP, JAXB, JAX-WS.
• Working knowledge of industry best practices and Engineering standards

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience

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