Digital S/W Eng Sr Group Manager - Director

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 Global Head of Data Strategy for surveillance technology role is to deliver common, secure, consistent and state of the art data capabilities across ICRM in conjunction with the broader ICG and GFT Data Strategy. This role will focus on data sourcing and data controls including quality and comprehensiveness. This includes building a reusable data-sourcing framework for quicker onboarding of data, strengthening the existing data quality program, timely identification of data quality issues, and extending data comprehensiveness controls to identify any control breaks in surveillance. The role will lead and represent Compliance Technology on the OCEAN to Olympus migration. This role reports to the Global Head of Surveillance Technology and will manage the strategic architecture and transformation of data and related approaches, tools and technologies within the Trade surveillance portfolios.

The candidate is expected to manage a global team of 60+ employees and contractors, and a technology platform that fulfills the trade surveillance and supervision needs of the compliance department globally for the Markets. This is the Firm's "second line of defense" with respect to its trading, brokerage, and the securities businesses: it involves combining trade data, metadata, and reference information from all platforms globally, generating alerts based on complicated and sometimes nonlinear logic, and providing a graphical interface for Compliance analysts and managers to conduct reviews and address

Responsibilities:

• Take the lead on the design, implementation, and successful delivery of large-scale or significantly difficult software solutions that have a long-term impact on a product, technology or architecture.

• Design approaches and the code you personally contribute is noteworthy in some way (e.g., a significant refactor that simplifies or improves architectural quality, enables us to maintain a competitive advantage, offers significant extensibility, performance, scalability, or has organization-wide operational excellence impact). Identify and tackle intrinsically hard problems. (e.g., highly complex, ambiguous, undefined, with less existing structure, or having significant business or security risk or potential for significant impact).

• Deliver artifacts that set the standard within your organization for engineering excellence, from designs to algorithms to implementations. Your personal code submissions and reviews of other people’s code are instructive and make the overall code corpus better.

• Lead and actively participate in design reviews, aligning teams across your organization towards coherent architectural strategies. You bring clarity to complexity, probe assumptions, illuminate pitfalls, and foster shared understanding.

• You are a pragmatic problem solver, applying judgment and experience to balance trade-offs between competing interests. You are flexible, adapting your approach to meet the needs of the team, project, and product.

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