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Head of Architecture – Core Banking Modernization
| Company | Citigroup |
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| Location | New York, NY, USA |
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| Salary | $170000 – $300000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | |
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| Experience Level | Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- 15+ years overall experience in a banking / financial services industry
- Experienced in architecture patterns enabling digital transformation, platform modernization, cloud onboarding and footprint simplification in large scale transformations
- Exceptional communication skills both verbal and written, influencing and engagement skills across all levels in the organization and ability to explain complex concepts to non-technical colleagues
- Experience in designing hybrid architectures where applications reside both on-premise and public cloud including understanding of cloud provider services. Hands on experience with AWS services like EKS, Azure, AKS, GCP, GKE is a plus
- Experience with large scale transformations while architecting and supporting frameworks for High Throughput and Real Time systems using microservices, domain driven design
- Demonstrable expertise in the development of standards, architectural adoption and governance methods, design patterns and IT practices
- API design/development experience including underlying technologies: REST, JSON, Swagger, YAML, SOAP
- Experience in automating practical solutions for SDLC and Release management through CI and related tools including but not limited to: Gitlab, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Maven, Nexus, Artifactory, Sonar, Jira, Confluence, etc.
- Experience with Oracle databases, integration/middleware technologies like TIBCO/FUSE, ETL tools like Talend
- Knowledge of Core Banking platforms and business flows related to payments processing, liquidity etc. is a plus
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture and discovery efforts for the in-scope LATAM markets, define the roadmap for moving from current state to the target state architecture and interim states influenced by migration strategy
- Communicate the agreed solution architecture to senior stakeholders and collaborate with technology partners and domain architects in the formalization and adoption of IT standards and procedure
- Interface with Services Architecture and other LOB architects, including representation in Design authority, Architecture workshops and Program Steering Committee
- Collaborate with product teams across Payments, Loans, Liquidity, Trade, Markets, Operations and Finance to understand business drivers and provide thought leadership in solution design by decomposing requirements and collaboratively developing solutions that adhere to Services architecture principles and strategic blueprint.
- Own, manage and apply architecture governance on solutions diagrams, application integration design, application mappings and data concepts.
- Champion engineering excellence by actively promoting and governing the use of development standards and principles.
- Create traceability between service offering documents, business requirements and the design/build of solutions
- Lead a highly skilled team of solution architects and develop rapid prototypes as needed using a technology stack based on Java Spring boot, Mongo, React, Angular
Preferred Qualifications
- Hands on experience with AWS services like EKS, Azure, AKS, GCP, GKE is a plus
- Knowledge of Core Banking platforms and business flows related to payments processing, liquidity etc. is a plus
