Senior Technology Specialist - Citi

Citi is a world-leading global bank with approximately 200 million customer accounts and a presence in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions worldwide. We provide consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management.

The IT Project Senior Technology Lead for Citi's transaction Testing platform is a strategic professional who closely follows the latest trends in their field and adapts them for application within their job and the business. Excellent communication skills are required to negotiate internally, often at a senior level. Developed communication and diplomacy skills are necessary to guide, influence, and convince others, particularly colleagues in other areas and occasional external customers. This role is accountable for significant direct business results or authoritative advice regarding the operations of the business and necessitates a degree of responsibility over technical strategy.

Team/Function Overview:

Transaction Testing End to End Solution offers technical capabilities at scale that will improve the transaction testing process and enable larger sample testing at increased frequency utilizing modernized and optimized technical infrastructure. Technology is focused on improving the data architecture and how data is managed front-to-back through placing more controls on SOR data, ensuring complete lineage, mapping of data to end-points, testing our results, and simplifying through application migrations.

Responsibilities:

• Oversee the platform, day-to-day requests, long-term projects, and strategy of the team.
• Eliminate waste in the SDLC process.
• Ensure your platform is fully compliant with Citi's compliance, security, and audit policies.
• Ensure system stability through enhancement/maintenance periods.
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients, and assets.
• Drive compliance with applicable laws, rules, and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behaviour, conduct, and business practices.
• Escalate, manage, and report control issues with transparency, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.

Qualifications:

• Significant relevant experience managing Consent order technology regulatory projects.
• Experience with Function as a Service platforms.
• Proven experience working through the full product cycle from initial design to the final product.
• Experience working with streaming data architectures.
• Experience with designing and deploying container-based services.
• Ability to engage and work closely with stakeholders from partner technology, business, and operations.
• Ability to develop good working relationships with peer groups and management.
• Ability to distribute/allocation work within the team depending on project complexity and resource availability.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and changing priorities efficiently.
• Ability to work with a minimum of supervision and deliver work on target.
• Strong communication skills; articulate in both written and verbal communication.
• Good negotiation skills and an accomplished solution provider and problem solver.
• Experience in Agile Methodology.
• Technology development experience.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree/University degree in computer science/engineering/mathematics or equivalent experience.
• Master's degree in computer science/engineering/mathematics is preferred.

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

By joining Citi Belfast, 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:

• Generous holiday allowance starting at 27 days plus bank holidays; increasing with tenure.
• A discretional annual performance-related bonus.
• Private medical insurance packages to suit your personal circumstances.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Pension Plan.
• Paid Parental Leave.
• Special discounts for employees, family, and friends.
• Access to an array of learning and development resources.

Alongside these benefits, Citi is committed to ensuring our workplace is where everyone feels comfortable coming to work as their whole self every day. We want the best talent around the world to be energized to join us, motivated to stay, and empowered to thrive.