Application Platform Cloud Solutions Engineer Vice President

Citi • Irving, TX

1d • $138,720 - $208,080 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Application Platform Cloud Solutions Engineer is a senior, independent technology leader in Citi’s multi-year Services Technology Modernization/Transformation program. The program is modernizing core platforms by migrating them to an on-premises OpenShift environment and later to public cloud, while moving from legacy monolithic systems toward resilient, cloud-native microservices. The role defines and engineers target-state technical architecture, capabilities, processes, data flows, controls, and connectivity across private-cloud and public-cloud environments.

The position leads architecture for critical domains across Payments, Trade & Working Capital, Core Accounts, Digital Technology, and Issuer and Investor Services. It guides application decomposition and modernization, designs secure and resilient connections among on-premises applications, clients, market-data providers, and payment networks, and develops blueprints aligned with business goals and regulatory requirements. The role also advances reconciliation and data-integrity controls, DevSecOps, and reliability practices, and collaborates with senior business and technology stakeholders. It reports to the Infra and Platform Lead and leads and mentors subject-matter experts.

Requirements

• Proven track record as a Platform Architect, Cloud Solutions Engineer, Process Architect, or in a similar strategic role within financial services.
• Deep functional and hands-on knowledge of computer systems, cloud technology and OpenShift, AWS/GCP and on-premises/private cloud, networking, client connectivity, regulatory exposure, and systems risk management.
• Hands-on private-cloud experience with Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes, VMware or virtualized infrastructure, bare-metal infrastructure, and on-premises container platforms.
• Hands-on public-cloud experience with AWS services including EKS, ECS, Lambda, S3, RDS, IAM, and VPC, and GCP services including GKE, Cloud Run, and IAM; experience with hybrid connectivity and landing-zone design.
• Platform engineering experience with Docker/Podman, Helm, service mesh such as Istio/Envoy, API gateways, Terraform, Ansible, and GitOps tools such as ArgoCD/Flux.
• Experience with CI/CD and observability tools such as Jenkins, Tekton, Harness, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and DevSecOps tooling.
• Hands-on experience designing enterprise connectivity for on-premises applications and external parties, including VPN, MPLS, Direct Connect/Interconnect, VPC/subnet design, peering, load balancing, firewalls, DNS, and TLS/mTLS.
• Experience designing secure client-facing connectivity using leased lines, extranet/VPN, API gateways, and managed file transfer, with attention to security, entitlements, and resilience.
• Experience integrating real-time and streaming market data from exchanges and vendors, including multicast, FIX, low-latency feed handlers, and failover design.
• Experience connecting to payment rails and networks such as SWIFT, ACH, RTGS, card networks, and real-time or instant payment schemes, including ISO 20022 and MT/MX messaging and secure gateway integration.
• Demonstrated experience architecting and delivering monolith-to-microservices modernization, including application decomposition, data migration, and API enablement.
• Significant experience in large-scale business transformation programs, preferably involving public-cloud migration and on-premises implementation.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder-management skills, including the ability to influence senior leaders and explain complex technical and business concepts to diverse audiences.
• Strategic thinking and ability to connect detailed process and engineering design to broader business outcomes and long-term objectives.
• 12+ years of relevant experience in solutions architecture or cloud engineering, including hands-on, end-to-end technology delivery.
• Hands-on engineering experience across private and public cloud platforms, container orchestration, enterprise networking, and application modernization.
• Consistently clear and concise written and verbal communication.
• Management and prioritization skills; ability to develop working relationships, manage multiple activities and changing priorities, and work under pressure to meet tight deadlines.
• Self-starter who takes initiative and can master new tasks quickly.
• Bachelor's/University degree or equivalent experience; a Master's degree is also identified as a possibility.

Nice To Haves

• Industry certifications in public-cloud technologies and networking.
• Master's degree.

Responsibilities

• Define, engineer, and model target-state technology architecture across private-cloud OpenShift/Kubernetes and AWS/GCP public-cloud platforms for key business domains.
• Lead modernization of monolithic applications into microservices and cloud-native architectures using patterns such as Strangler Fig, Domain-Driven Design, API-led decomposition, and event-driven architecture.
• Design and build hybrid and multi-cloud runtime platforms using containerization, orchestration, service mesh, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Design secure, resilient, low-latency connectivity between on-premises applications, clients, market-data providers, payment networks, and private- and public-cloud environments.
• Map and analyze current-state business processes and application landscapes to identify gaps, pain points, technical debt, and opportunities for simplification, standardization, and automation.
• Develop detailed process models, functional designs, reference architectures, network topology diagrams, and data-flow diagrams aligned with strategic objectives and regulatory requirements.
• Design reconciliation and substantiation frameworks that support complete, accurate, and timely data as workloads move to distributed cloud-native data platforms.
• Establish standardized CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, automated security gates, and Site Reliability Engineering practices to support delivery velocity, resilience, observability, and compliance.
• Collaborate with application development, architecture, network engineering, operations, and senior business and technology stakeholders to gather requirements, build consensus, and meet business needs.
• Lead and mentor a team of subject-matter experts and foster excellence in platform and infrastructure design and delivery, strategic thinking, engineering rigor, and business understanding.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401(k).
• Life, accident, and disability insurance.
• Wellness programs.
• Paid time off, including planned vacation, sick leave, and paid holidays.
• Ongoing learning and development opportunities.
• Financial wellbeing programs and resources.
• Support for work-life balance and family wellbeing.
• Hybrid work model with three days in the office and two days working remotely.
• Discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards may be available to eligible employees.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior