Solutions Enterprise Principal Engineer - Director

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.

This is a senior technology Director role to partner with the Markets Innovation and Investments Markets Business Controls Technology group and will report directly into the Head of this technology department.

Key Responsibilities include (but not limited to):

• Build and Deploy Analytical Capabilities: Build analytical capabilities that would help the Markets Business Controls function derive insights to reduce risks. This includes hands-on development and deployment of application, data pipelines, models, and analytical tools using programming languages like Java or Python.
• Lead Technical Feasibility and Development of GenAI Solutions: Lead technical feasibility reviews for Markets GenAI use cases, taking a hands-on role in prototyping and developing AI/NLP solutions. Work with technology partners, actively contributing to the coding, debugging, and deployment of required solutions.
• Define, Scope, and Implement Business Solutions: Meet with stakeholders, program sponsors, and LODs to define end-to-end business processes, scope, and roadmaps. Take a hands-on role in translating these requirements into technical implementations and deploying functional solutions.
• Lead and Implement the Technical Strategy: Lead the technical strategy and direction for the Markets Business Controls team. This includes hands-on development of core components, frameworks, and leading the implementation efforts, actively participating in the coding and deployment of solutions.
• 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.
• 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 support to the business tech team in productionizing applications 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 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.
• Leverage GenAI and AI/ML solutions to facilitate 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.
• Promote enterprise applications and simplify the architecture landscape.
• Retire eliminate duplicate functions and demonstrate technology and business efficiencies.

Key Skills and Experience required:

• Willingness to 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.
• Proficient in Java or Python with strong understanding of microservices frameworks and capable of writing, debugging, and analysing code effectively.
• Experience in the design of end-to-end technical solutions that address complex business challenges whilst ensuring security, 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 in translating complex business problems into sound technical solutions, with the ability to create clear technical diagrams and documentation to support design and implementation.
• 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.

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.