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 Enterprise 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

Our commitment to diversity includes a workforce that represents the clients we serve from all walks of life, backgrounds, and origins. We foster an environment where the best people want to work. We value and demand respect for others, promote individuals based on merit, and ensure opportunities for personal development are widely available to all. Ideal candidates are innovators with well-rounded backgrounds who bring their authentic selves to work and complement our culture of delivering results with pride. If you are a problem solver who seeks passion in your work, come join us. We’ll enable growth and progress together.

Role:

The successful candidate is responsible for the design and overall technical architecture of the organization.

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

Responsibilities:

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

Tech Skills / Qualifications:

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

Education:

Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience

Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. Citi will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work authorization for this position). Irving, TX Candidate must be located within commuting distance or be willing to relocate to the area

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Job Family Group:

Technology

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Job Family:

Applications Development

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Time Type:

Full time

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Primary Location:

Irving Texas United States

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Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:

$156,160.00 - $234,240.00

In addition to salary, Citi’s offerings may also include, for eligible employees, discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards. Citi offers competitive employee benefits, including: medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs. Citi also offers paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays. For additional information regarding Citi employee benefits, please visit citibenefits.com. Available offerings may vary by jurisdiction, job level, and date of hire.

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Anticipated Posting Close Date:

Dec 04, 2024

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