Principal Technology Program Manager

Job Description

Overview of the Role

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.

The Principal Technology Program Manager is a strategic professional who closely follows latest trends in own field and adapts them for application within own job and the business. Typically a small number of people within the business that provide the same level of expertise. Excellent communication skills required in order to negotiate internally, often at a senior level. 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. Accountable for significant direct business results or authoritative advice regarding the operations of the business. Necessitates a degree of responsibility over technical strategy. Primarily affects a sub-function. Responsible for handling staff management issues, including resource management and allocation of work within the team/project.

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for managing the lifecycle for a complex cross functional body of work that has a long term positive impact on the company.
• Able to define and organize the program, outline tenets, analyze data, drive performance improvements, and influence resource allocation for all stages of execution.
• Work across scrum teams and across organizations. May be assigned to deliver the multi-year roadmap for a CEO’s book of business.
• May plan the associated technology roadmap for Global Digital and influence dependent organization’s roadmaps by contributing to their planning documents and goal setting exercises.
• May focus on a single product, focus in a key technology area or focus more broadly, managing larger initiatives that span organizations and geographies in support of a larger cross-cutting business goal.
• May be accountable for the delivery of an organizational goal.
• Influence teams to decouple from dependencies and eliminate architectural problems.
• Drive and influence transformational change in the evolution of our end to end product delivery using agile development methodology.
• Look forward 1-3 years to drive architectural and organizational changes that enable your programs and products to be successful in the long term without your participation.
• Drive clarity and work with complete independence as business and/or technical strategy is not defined.
• Have a comprehensive understanding of the business domain, the systems, and the products in your space; understand their accountabilities, boundaries, limitations, scale factors.
• Understand the reasons behind architectural decisions while providing a long-term perspective for business and technology choices.
• Use technical judgment to challenge proposals and validate assumptions and enlist Sr. engineering support to vet architecture as required.
• Accountable for the overall strategy and for driving th