Architecture Lead Analyst - VP

About Citi:

Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides 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.

As a bank with a brain and a soul, Citi creates economic value that is systemically responsible and in our clients’ best interests. As a financial institution that touches every region of the world and every sector that shapes your daily life, our Operations & Technology teams are charged with a mission that rivals any large tech company. Our technology solutions are the foundations of everything we do from keeping the bank safe, managing global resources, and providing the technical tools our workers need to be successful to designing our digital architecture and ensuring our platforms provide a first-class customer experience. We reimagine client and partner experiences to deliver excellence through secure, reliable, and efficient services.

Citi’s Functions Technology is responsible for delivering Technology solutions to Citi's Functions organizations.  Functions Technology mission is to optimize Citi's Technology environment by delivering world class applications, driving standardization of the production environment, reducing complexity, optimizing management of systems supporting global functions such as Compliance, Controls, Internal Audit and Risk, and introducing innovative technologies that provide new business capabilities, reduce the technology total cost of ownership, and create a competitive advantage for Citi.

The Architecture Lead Analyst is a strategic professional who stays abreast of developments within own field and contributes to directional strategy by considering their application in own job and the business. Recognized technical authority for an area within the business. Requires basic commercial awareness. There are typically multiple people within the business that provide the same level of subject matter expertise. Developed communication and diplomacy skills are required in order to guide, influence and convince others, in particular colleagues in other areas and occasional external customers. Significant impact on the area through complex deliverables. Provides advice and counsel related to the technology or operations of the business. Work impacts an entire area, which eventually affects the overall performance and effectiveness of the sub-function/job family. 
 
Responsibilities: 

• Executes the architectural vision for all IT systems through major, complex IT architecture projects; ensures that architecture conforms to enterprise blueprints. 

• Provides technical leadership and is responsible for developing components of, or the overall systems design. 

• Translates complex business problems into sound technical solutions. 

• Applies hardware engineering and software design theories and principles in researching, designing, and developing product hardware and software interfaces. 

• Provides integrated systems planning and recommends innovative technologies that will enhance the current system. 

• Recommends appropriate desktop, computer platform, and communication links required to support IT goals and strategy. 

• Exhibits good knowledge of how one's own specialism contributes to the business and good understanding of competitors' products and services. 

• Requires sophisticated analytical thought to resolve issues in a variety of complex situations. 

• Impacts the architecture function by influencing decisions through advice, counsel or facilitating services. 

• Performs other job duties and functions as assigned 

• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency. 

Qualifications: 

• 6-10 years relevant experience 

• Proven experience in architecting cloud migration projects 

• AWS Cloud preferred, but Azure and Google Cloud equivalent

• Built Data Warehouses and Data Marts

• Having handled high volume transactions

• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication 

• 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 

Education: 

• Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience, potentially Master's degree