Infrastructure Engineering Lead Analyst, VP

Infrastructure Engineering Lead Analyst, VP

Discover your future at Citi. Working at Citi is far more than just a job. A career with us means joining a team of more than 230,000 dedicated people from around the globe. At Citi, you'll have the opportunity to grow your career, give back to your community and make a real impact.

Job Overview

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.

Responsibilities

• Execute & implement the architectural vision for all IT systems through major, complex IT architecture projects; ensures that engineering solutions conforms to enterprise blueprints.
• Implements technology road maps, while keeping up to date with emerging technologies, and recommends business directions based on these technologies.
• Provides technical leadership and is responsible for developing components of, or the overall systems engineering & design.
• Applies hardware engineering and software design theories and principles in researching, designing, and developing product hardware and software interfaces.
• Exhibits good knowledge of how own specialism contributes to the business and good understanding of competitors products and services.
• Requires sophisticated analytical thought to resolve issues in a variety of complex situations.
• Understanding on Enterprise Standards and implementation techniques to engineer solutions improving productivity of the platform.
• Partner continuously with stakeholders and technical teams.
• Grow and develop subject matter expertise for the relevant area of business, applying this knowledge to ensure solutions are closely aligned to business needs and goals
• Provide thought leadership, as well as coaching and development for junior team members
• Follow and contribute to technical and team standards and practices & adheres to all compliance and governance process and enforce teams to follow to adheres the same.
• Collaborate with technical leadership to ensure work is aligned to the broad technical strategy and Enterprise Standards.
• Leverage technical knowledge of concepts and procedures within own area and basic knowledge of other areas to resolve issues, as necessary
• Apply extensive knowledge and expertise to all aspects of the software development lifecycle, ensuring software is built to the highest standards.
• Performs other job duties and functions as assigned
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating 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.

Qualifications

• Fifteen years of progressively responsible experience in the job offered or in a related IT occupation
• 8+ years of relevant experience creating end-to-end pipeline automation for infrastructure deployment within the technology industry along with Cloud based Solution for AI Products
• Industry certifications are a plus

Technical Skills Experience must include:

• Evaluating complex business processes, system processes, and industry standards to improve speed, efficiency, and scalability for digital transformation initiatives by evaluating new tools, technologies, and processes.
• Good understanding on Architecture & Networking and Capable of architecture review processes, third-party due diligence processes, VA assessments, architectural reviews, application testing, vulnerability scans, penetration testing, change management, cyber exercises, reviews and audits
• Good understanding on & Authentication and Authorization and implementation experience of integrating SSO/SAML implementation with Vendor products along with entitlements
• Utilizing Private (on-Premises)/Public Cloud (AWS) platform architecture, OpenShift, and DevOps tools to build and deliver scalable, highly available platforms for application development including exposure to database concepts (RDBMS, NoSQL)
• Maintaining Cloud services and platforms for scalability, resiliency, security, and performance while maintaining configuration, optimization, documentation, and support of the infrastructure components of the applications including utilizing Cloud Formation or Terraform for infrastructure automation
• Performing continuous integration and delivery of applications on Kubernetes/OpenShift using deployment and configuration management tools including Bitbucket, CI-CD pipelines, Jenkins, Tekton, and Harness
• Good experience to Security, APIs, Observability, and Monitoring tools (Grafana Prometheus, Splunk, ELK, CloudWatch, etc.) for building dedicated instances as a business requirement
• Capable to work with several third-party Cloud based SaaS solutions and capable enforcing and implementing compliance and governance processes followed in organization and preferable to have good understanding on CISO, Model risk management (MRM) processes

Interpersonal Skills

• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication
• Management and prioritization skills
• Ability to develop working relationships to work effectively with technical teams and business stakeholders
• Ability to manage multiple activities and changing priorities
• Ability to work under pressure and to meet tight deadlines
• Self-starter with ability to take the initiative and master new tasks quickly
• Comfortable presenting technical solutions to management and other stakeholders
• Solution Oriented with Support governance and compliance initiatives, including data protection requirements.
• Communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Methodical, attention to detail

Education

Bachelor's degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Computer Applications, Information Technology, or a related field