Core Banking Migration - Senior Vice president

About Citi Services Technology and LATAM Core Banking Transformation

Citi Services, a business line within Citi, is embarking on a period of significant growth and investment. Citi Services offers the full spectrum of products in the domains of Payments, Liquidity, Trade and Working Capital, Investor services and Issuer services across multiple jurisdictions.

Services Technology is undergoing an exciting transformation to improve agility, scalability, and efficiency in delivering best-in-class product offerings. Within Services Technology, the LATAM Core Banking Transformation team is driving platform modernization across 11 LATAM countries, migrating from monolithic Bank-In-a-Box platform to globally consistent microservices solutions. The team is responsible to meet regulatory commitments as well as define the blueprint for Core Banking modernization globally.

About the Role

Core Accounts Technology is seeking a seasoned lead for Migrations/Data Conversions for large scale transformations of legacy systems. This role will spearhead the migration of accounts and products from legacy Bank-in-a-Box platforms to our strategic Best-of-Breed target application suite.

This is a high-impact role in which you will work closely with technology, product and operations partners to define solution design including selection of tools/technology, data profiling and mapping, pipelines/workflow for data transformation and conversion across multiple applications, data reconciliations, end-to-end release management, as well as controls required for complete front to back experience.

Your leadership will be instrumental in shaping enterprise architecture, data architecture and promoting engineering excellence. In this role, you will lead engineering efforts to design and implement processes and tooling using exciting new technologies shape the future of banking.

Responsibilities:

• Define the Future: Establish a repeatable data migration framework for LATAM across a large number of applications, setting the standard for global Core Banking Transformations.

• Drive Success: Lead end-to-end data migration testing and dress rehearsals across key functional areas (Payments, Channels, Billing, Statements, Liquidity, Regulatory & Financial reporting).

• Master the Migration: Define and manage the migration runbook and control room operations. Advise Business & Operations in defining Production Validation Testing (PVT) scope. Manage effective resolution of issues identified during PVT.

• Lead Functional Architecture for best-in-class Solutions: Provide thought-leadership in solution design, including functional flows, data flows, data integration across applications, adhering to Citi’s architecture principles and strategic blueprint. Lead awareness of business, technical, and infrastructure issues and develop creative solutions. 

• Innovate: Use cutting edge patterns and technologies to achieve reliable, high performance flows with repeatable tools/processes for transformations and migrations.

• Lead Technical Excellence: Guide solution designers and development leads in building robust and scalable solutions.

• Communicate and Collaborate: Clearly articulate solution architecture to stakeholders and partner with technology teams.

• Champion Engineering Standards: Promote and enforce the use of development standards and best practices.

• Ensure Traceability: Create traceability between service offering documents, business requirements and the design/build of solutions.

Qualifications

• 15+ years overall experience in a banking / financial services industry.

• Proven success in large-scale migrations from monolithic legacy platform to microservices based solutions that transform internal processes and improve client experience.

• Proven experience with data conversions, data analysis, data mapping and ETL conversions, tooling for repeatable migrations across a large portfolio.

• Expertise in architecture patterns for digital transformation, platform modernization, cloud onboarding and footprint simplification.

• Strong understanding of Core Banking functionalities is preferred. Domain expertise in one or more areas like Payments, Loans, Channels, Billing, Statements, Liquidity & Finance.

• Expertise in technical analysis and ability to produce detailed mapping specifications and data flow diagrams.

• Exceptional communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills.

• Experience with Event-driven microservices architectures.

• Proficiency in API design and development (REST, J