Enterprise Architecture Solutions Architect, Senior Vice President

Citi • New York, NY

1d • $176,720 - $265,080 • Onsite

About The Position

Citi, a leading global bank with approximately 200 million customer accounts across more than 160 countries, provides a broad range of financial products and services. The Enterprise Operations & Technology teams are tasked with a mission comparable to large tech companies, focusing on secure, reliable, and efficient technology solutions that underpin all bank operations, from safety and resource management to digital architecture and customer experience. The organization values diversity, respect, merit-based promotion, and personal development, seeking innovators and problem solvers who bring their authentic selves to work. The Solutions Architect is a senior-level role responsible for leading architectural and engineering activities, including analyzing functional requirements, designing solutions, evaluating options, and presenting recommendations to senior stakeholders. This individual will leverage in-depth financial services domain knowledge to address complex business problems and develop sustainable, future-ready platforms. The role demands a results-oriented, innovative, and motivated professional committed to driving efficiency, enhancing controls, and ensuring scalability, articulated through various architectural artifacts. This high-performing team designs enterprise-wide solutions for critical business needs, integrating solutions, business, technical, and data architecture. Key stakeholders include operations, product, and application development teams across various lines of business and functions globally.

Requirements

• Degree / post graduate degree, preferably in computer science, computer engineering or business / management
• 10-15 years of relevant experience in an engineering and architectural role in Cash Management, Intra-day Liquidity, Payments, Financial Ledger, Regulatory reporting areas in Financial Services
• 5+ years experience in leading large scale enterprise architecture initiatives within banking, financial services industry
• Strong understanding of banking systems, financial services platforms, core banking, data platforms, market infrastructure providers, and regulatory frameworks
• Experience working on large technology projects using industry-standard delivery methodologies (e.g., Agile/Scrum/Kanban)
• Experience working in enterprise architect and technology strategy roles
• Ability to develop working relationships
• Management and prioritization skills
• Strong decision making, forward thinking and creative problem-solving skills to anticipate and respond quickly to technological/market influences
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication
• Comprehensive knowledge of design metrics, analytics tools, benchmarking activities and related reporting to identify best practices
• Demonstrated analytic/diagnostic skills
• Ability to work independently, multi-task, and take ownership of various parts of a project or initiative
• Ability to work under pressure and manage to tight deadlines or unexpected changes in requirements
• Ability to build and manage strong teams

Responsibilities

• Develop solution design options for enterprise-wide initiatives, evaluate the art of the possible, and devise recommendation options across several evaluation dimensions
• Define and maintain cohesive front-to-back system architecture across Central Operations to reduce fragmentation, support shared services, automate controls, and reduce manual touch points
• Serve as a technology subject matter expert for internal and external stakeholders and provide direction for all firm mandated controls and compliance initiatives, all projects within the group and in creating a technology domain roadmap
• Lead architecture governance process including architecture review boards, technology assessments, and conformance to key design principles
• Partner with SMEs across the CTO organization to understand emerging engineering, architecture standards and apply them across critical initiatives
• Evaluates and tests potential architecture solution designs to ensure they meet functional and non-functional requirements
• Ensure that all integration of functions fulfill business goals
• Define necessary system enhancements to deploy new products and process enhancements
• Identify problem causality, business impact and root causes
• Exhibit knowledge of how own specialty area contributes to the business and apply knowledge of competitors, products and services
• Strong experience in data structures and its impact on design principles as well as proposals
• Advise or mentor junior team members
• Impact the solution design by influencing decisions through advice, counsel or facilitating services
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.
• Recruit and build a team of business analysts, solution architects

Benefits

• discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards
• medical, dental & vision coverage
• 401(k)
• life, accident, and disability insurance
• wellness programs
• paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees