Lead Cloud Architect, 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 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.
 
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The Lead Cloud Architect, VP 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.

• Develops technology road maps, while keeping up-to-date with emerging technologies, and recommends business directions based on these technologies.

• 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 own specialism contributes to the business and good understanding of competitors products and services.

• Acts as an advisor or mentor to junior team members.

• 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.

• Guides, influences and persuades others with developed communication and diplomacy skills.

• Performs other job duties and functions as assigned

• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular 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:

• 5 or more years of relevant experience in System Design and/or Cloud Technologies is required

• Demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication

• Proven influencing and relationship management skills

• Proven analytical skills

• Strong communication skills, with the capability to advise on engineering topics at both a technical & executive level.

• Architecture experience in Citi or other related banking industry role is a plus

• Ability to work in a matrix environment and partner with virtual team

• Experience of cloud-native architectures and delivery of such solutions using microservice patterns

• Experience in Agile and DevOps approaches – e.g. continuous integration, test automation, frequent releases, containerization

• Understanding of HTTP and REST based architectures

• Knowledge of datastore technologies – relational, non-relational -  such as ORaaS, MongoDB, Redis, Couchbase

• Knowledge of BareMetal Kubernetes/OpenShift deployments.

• Experience with modern platform-as-a-service operating models

• API design/development including underlying technologies, Domain-Driven Design, and micro-services development

• An understanding of, and ideally experience with, cloud hosting providers and containerization technologies

• Exposure to Security concepts and technologies related to authentication,  authorization, encryption, data protection, threat prevention, and S-SDLC best practices

Education:

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

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

Critical Responsibilities:

• Contribute to engineering excellence initiatives by identifying and applying tooling and processes as appropriate

• Review system, solution, application, infrastructure and data architectures, document findings, make recommendations and support implementation

• Review new and existing third-party products and tools for fitness for purpose based on functional and non-functional requirements, and technology strategy

• Make product and tool recommendations based on functional and non-functional requirements, and technology strategy

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Job Family Group:

Technology

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Job Family:

Architecture

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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:

$125,760.00 - $188,640.00

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:

Jul 31, 2025

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