Digital Assets Technology - Director

Citi • New York, NY

1d • $170,000 - $300,000

About The Position

Citi's Digital Assets Technology organization is seeking a Director to lead technology platform strategy and delivery across a broad set of Digital Assets use cases. This senior, highly visible leadership role partners closely with Business, Product, and Engineering Heads while owning a broad scope of business-aligned deliverables. The Director translates business strategy into an executable technology roadmap and aligns engineering delivery with the needs of Digital Asset product and business stakeholders across Investor and Issuer Services and other emerging Digital Assets and DLT use cases.

The role defines and owns technology strategy and roadmaps; shapes platform vision, investment priorities, and multi-year strategy; represents Technology in senior business and product forums; and serves as the primary technology point of contact for Investor and Issuer Services. It leads delivery across a portfolio of initiatives, establishes governance and prioritization mechanisms, manages risks and dependencies, and builds and develops direct and matrixed teams. The Director ensures solutions meet Citi's architecture, security, resiliency, regulatory, control, business, and operational risk standards.

Requirements

• 15+ years of experience in the software industry, including leadership roles.
• 12+ years of progressive technology leadership experience within financial services, including significant experience in capital markets, custody, securities services, or digital assets.
• 10+ years of experience leading large, complex, multi-workstream technology portfolios in a global, matrixed organization.
• Strong people leadership experience, including building and scaling technology teams.
• Excellent executive communication and stakeholder management skills, including experience presenting to senior management and regulators.
• Working knowledge of regulatory and control frameworks relevant to financial services technology.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent work experience.

Nice To Haves

• 5+ years’ experience and familiarity with digital asset, blockchain, or distributed ledger technology concepts, including tokenization, digital custody, smart contracts, and DLT settlement.
• Direct experience with Investor Services and/or Issuer Services business domains, such as custody, fund administration, asset servicing, corporate actions, or issuance platforms.
• Demonstrated track record of partnering with peer Engineering leadership to deliver shared platform outcomes.
• Hands-on technical background in architecture, cloud, or distributed systems sufficient to engage credibly with engineering teams.
• Experience with emerging digital asset infrastructure providers, custodians, or DLT platforms.
• Experience operating in highly regulated, control-sensitive environments.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the technology strategy and roadmap for Digital Assets use cases, including Investor Services, Issuer Services, and adjacent or emerging digital asset propositions across Citi Lines of Business.
• Partner with the Digital Assets Technology Head to shape the broader technology platform vision, investment priorities, and multi-year platform strategy.
• Represent Technology in senior business and product forums and advise on technical feasibility, architecture direction, and delivery trade-offs.
• Partner with Engineering Heads to ensure coherent architecture, shared platform capabilities, and consistent engineering standards across the Digital Assets technology estate.
• Build relationships with Product, Operations, Risk, Compliance, and Legal stakeholders to ensure solutions meet regulatory, control, and business requirements.
• Serve as the primary technology point of contact for Investor and Issuer Services business lines.
• Own end-to-end delivery accountability for a broad portfolio of Digital Assets initiatives, ensuring on-time, high-quality, and compliant delivery.
• Establish and drive governance, prioritization, and tracking mechanisms across concurrent workstreams.
• Identify, escalate, and manage risks, dependencies, and blockers across the program portfolio.
• Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing team of direct and matrixed engineering and delivery professionals.
• Foster engineering excellence, innovation, and accountability; support talent development, succession planning, and organizational design as the function scales.
• Ensure technology solutions adhere to Citi's architecture, security, resiliency, and regulatory standards.
• Partner with Risk and Compliance teams on the evolving regulatory landscape for digital assets and champion sound engineering and operational risk practices.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401(k)
• Life, accident, and disability insurance
• Wellness programs
• Paid time off, including vacation, sick leave, and paid holidays
• Discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards may be available for eligible employees

What This Job Offers

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