Risk Data Delivery Lead - Director

Citi is a world-leading global bank. We have approximately 200 million customer accounts and a presence in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions worldwide. We provide 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. We enable clients to achieve their strategic financial objectives by providing them with cutting-edge ideas, best-in-class products and solutions, and unparalleled access to capital and liquidity.

Institutional Data Platform (IDP) team within the ISG Data Solutions function has built a next generation Data Fabric to solve the evolving Business, Analytical and Regulatory needs of Citi’s Markets business.  The Fabric brings together disparate data sources for the Global Markets organization and enable industry-leading analytics, client reporting, regulatory, surveillance, supervisory reporting(s) and data science solutions. It will also provide enhanced data quality controls , completeness and accuracy, reconciliations,  entitlements, performance, management of data retention and archival per regulatory guidelines. Risk data program involves centralizing the Risk data across Markets and have one golden source of data for all Risk reporting and analytics. The Risk data (not limited to) broadly covers Market Risk, Credit Risk, Price Risk and Counterparty Credit Risk.

This role will be part of the Risk Data team and  is a senior management level position as the Engineering Software Manager in Risk Data area within the Institutional Data Platform function This role will lead a global team of engineers and drive the Price Risk Data initiatives to building world class cross market analytics solutions with robust design, design patterns and architecture that are innovative, consistent with firm standards and best practices. This role needs to collaborate with Front Office Risk, Risk Managers and Price Risk Business Stakeholders who manage business requirements and program scope. Candidate for this position expected to have in-depth hands-on experience in enterprise application development in Java server side, Database, SQL and Bigdata areas.

Responsibilities:

• As part of the Risk Data team, lead the efforts in Institutional Data Platform (ICG) that span multiple businesses, products and functions.

• Delivery of Price Risk related Data initiatives and Capital reporting (GSIB) related deliverables

• Establish strong relationships with the global business stakeholders and ensure transparency of project deliveries

• Actively identify and manage risks and issues, working with disparate teams to create mitigation plans and follow-through to resolution.

• Adhere to all key Project Management (PMQC) & Engineering Excellence standards

• Ensure timely communications to Senior Technology Management and Business Partners in Front Office, Middle Office & other Operations functions.

• Drive the design and development of system architecture, work with end-users of the systems, and enhance the quality of deliverables Ensure staff follows Citi documented policy and procedures as well as maintain desktop procedures and supporting documentation for filings on a current basis and in comprehensive manner

• Ensure change is managed with appropriate controls, documentation, and approvals including implementation of new and revised regulatory reporting requirements

• Manage and maintain all disaster recovery plans, oversee appropriate testing, and provide permit-to-operate for new applications

• Contribute to defining and implementing best practices and processes for the department and ensure transparency and consistency across teams

• 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, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.

• Ensure that Production Stability is one of the key focus areas in all the deliveries

• Improve scalability within the platforms and work with cloud based strategy

• Communicate ideas clearly with a focus on how end-user functionality is impacted

• Strong focus on hiring and retaining top and diverse talent

• Manage/develop multiple teams of professionals to accomplish established goals and conduct personnel duties for team (e.g. performance evaluations, hiring and disciplinary actions) as well as ensure team adheres to best practices and process Develop vision for team around roles and responsibilities, and structure team to ensure greatest impact, efficient use of resource, and alignment to business structures

• Prepare and present regular team/project reviews to senior management and business leaders

• Drive the design and development of system architecture, work with end-users of the systems, and enhance the quality of deliverables Ensure staff follows Citi documented policy and procedures as well as maintain desktop procedures and supporting documentation for filings on a current basis and in comprehensive manner

Knowledge / Experience:

• Strong academic record, ideally with a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or engineering  or related technical discipline

• Proven experience in enterprise application development with full stack technologies,

• Strong Architect and hands on technical experience in implementing large volume real time complex solutions in Big Data Platforms & Public Cloud platforms

• Experience in Data architecture , strong Software development fundamentals, data structures, design patterns, object-oriented principles

• Experience in design and delivery of multi-tiered applications and high performance server side components

• Skills on system performance tuning, high performance, low latency, multithreading and experience with Java server side programming

• Preferred experience in Handling high volumes of data and working with In-memory databases and Caching solutions

• Experience of building and leading teams, ideally with a global resource profile and demonstrated ability to deliver large projects efficiently and on time

• Significant experience in large Financial  Services Technology services companies is expected for this position.

• Experience with the following tools and technologies:

  • Hands-on development, architecture and leadership experience in real-time data engineering platforms implementation

  • Hands-on development and architecture experience in Java or Scala, Microservices

  • Hands-on development and architecture experience in big-data ecosystem – Hadoop, Hive, Impala, NOSQL

  • Hands-on development, architecture and leadership experience in distributed computing technologies – Spark, Flink

  • Hands-on development, and architecture experience in caching, In-memory databases , messaging infra (Kafka, Pulsar, RabbitMQ, etc.)

• Relevant Risk domain experience within Financial Services (Market/ Credit Risk)

• Demonstrated leadership, management, communication and development skills

What we’ll provide you:

By joining Citi, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), but also receive a competitive base salary (which is annually reviewed), and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits such as:

• 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)

• A discretional annual performance related bonus

• Private Medical Care & Life Insurance

• Employee Assistance Program

• Pension Plan

• Paid Parental Leave

• Special discounts for employees, family, and friends

• Access to an array of learning and development resources

Alongside these benefits Citi is committed to ensuring our workplace is where everyone feels comfortable coming to work as their whole self, every day. We want the best talent around the world to be energized to join us, motivated to stay and empowered to thrive.

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