Citigroup Hiring for ISO 20022 Solution Engineering and Infrastructure Lead at Pune, India Full Time

Citi’s Treasury and Trade Solutions (TTS) group is built on the power of our network. Citi Treasury and Trade Solutions (TTS), provides integrated cash management and trade finance services to multinational corporations, financial institutions, and public sector organizations across the globe. With a full range of digital and mobile enabled platforms, tools and analytics, TTS continues to lead the way in delivering innovative and tailored solutions to its clients. TTS offers the industry’s most comprehensive suite of treasury and trade solutions including cash management, payments, receivables, liquidity management and investment services, working capital solutions, commercial card programs, trade finance and services.

• TTS counts 80% of Global Fortune 500, over 1,100 public sector entities and thousands of financial institutions amongst its diverse client landscape

• Doing business in 160 countries and jurisdictions, and transacting in over 140 currencies, TTS processes some USD 4.0 trillion of client payments everyday

• Collaborates with clients to deliver next-generation financial solutions using TTS Innovation Labs.

The Payments and Receivables (P&R) Technology is a part of the TTS Technology organization and is embarking on several global transformations for P&R. We are seeking a Senior Vice President to lead solution engineering & infrastructure lead on market mandatory ISO 20022 adoption globally. The candidate requires a successful track record in delivering large scale complex delivery programmes in Banking Domain. He/she requires exceptional communication skills across both technology and the business and will have a high degree of visibility. The candidate will be a rigorous technical manager with a strong understanding of how to build scalable, enterprise level global solutions.

The ideal candidate will be dependable and resourceful software professional who can comfortably work in a large development team in a globally distributed, dynamic work environment that fosters diversity, teamwork and collaboration. Ability to work in high-pressured environment is essential.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate and partner with the business, infrastructure, and architecture teams to define strategic roadmap and execution plan leveraging our global target state architecture that will enable scalability and resiliency of the payment infrastructure within Citi.

• Develop roles, responsibilities, and team structure to deliver against a transformational agenda while ensuring efficient use of resources and demonstrating alignment to business goals.

• Lead a collaboration space with the regional teams to bridge the gaps between our global target architecture and local requirements with an eye towards simplification and standardization.

• Lead integration of functions with understanding of client core business functions and partner with multiple senior management teams to meet goals and deploy new products and process enhancements.

• Solve the highest-impact, highest-profile problems with significant business impact through in-depth evaluation of complex business processes, system processes and industry standards.

• Influence and negotiate with senior leaders (across functions) and communicate with external parties as needed.

• Providing technology leadership for right strategy, planning and governance addressing how to identify and manage the tech debt.

• Addressing all aspects of Production stability, scalability and availability for these transformed payment processing flows via proposed architecture and solution design

• Contribute to technical direction and strategic decisions as a technical expert in all development and implementation phases, providing in-depth and sophisticated analyses to define problems and develop innovative solutions.

• 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.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors or master’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

• Minimum experience of 15 years working in banking technology industry

• Minimum 10 years of relevant experience working on payments landscape handling technical delivery and support.

• Minimum 10 years of experience in leading globally distributed teams successfully

• Proven track record for technology strategy, planning and overall governance.

• Project management, interpersonal, and communication skills, with high attention to details.

• Good negotiation, influencing and stakeholder management skills.

• Experience with scaled agile delivery from building to coaching teams to achieve client value with speed.

• Experience with modernizing and migrating applications/clients to strategic architectures.

• Experience in collaborating and influencing across regional/global cross-functional teams.

• Understanding of Payments is required.

Technical / Functional Proficiency:

• Responsible for providing technical leadership of multiple large scale/complex software solutions, even by extending the existing platform through custom development, customization and integration with in-house solutions and vendor solutions leading to a complete platform that caters to key business requirements.

• Strong experience in working with various Payments schemes and Payments messaging formats such as SWIFT, ISO 20022 etc.

• Experience in building enterprise grade transaction processing system with focus on recovery, stability, reliability, scalability and performance.

• Demonstrated excellent software development acumen, preferable experience in development & implementation of any tech stack completely.

• Exposure to performance tuning of large technical solutions with significant volumes

• Conversant with various technologies, experience in transforming legacy systems to new age technologies befitting the needs of business function.

• Interpret business strategy and determine innovative technology solutions with the ability to manage and evaluate data and innovation pipeline.

• Responsible for providing technical engineering leadership of multiple large scale/complex global software solutions.

• Strong understanding of object-oriented analysis and design, design patterns, high availability and concurrent programming

• Strong understanding on Agile projects and SAFe Agile ceremonies.

• Experience in building enterprise transaction-based system with focus on recovery, stability, reliability, scalability and performance.

• Strong experience in designing complex application in micro services platform.

• Solid understanding and experience of integrating Web Services

• Experience in using the tools for service registry and service discovery (like Eureka, API-Gateway etc.)

• Experience in using the tools for log visualization.

• Hands on experience on Test Driven Development (Junit/Mockito/ etc.)

• Experience in building multithreaded applications and troubleshooting complex issues related to it.

• Experience in working on JMS / MQ applications.

• Experience in working multiple OS (Unix, Linux, Win)

• Experience developing SOA and writing/consuming web services.

• Experience developing solutions involving ETL any Big Data concepts.

• Experience in performance tuning of large technical solutions with significant volumes

• Strong Database experience (MongoDB/Oracle/SQL)

• Understanding of internetworking concepts, firewall, communication protocols is a plus.

• Experience in using Open Source technology.

• Knowledge of Web security framework is required.

Leadership Skills:

• Excellent organization skills, attention to detail, and ability to multi-task

• Demonstrated sense of ownership & responsibility and capability to deliver quickly.

• Flexibility to handle multiple complex projects and changing priorities.

• Strong Stakeholder Management experience on discussion among Business, Solutions, Operations and Application Teams.

• Excellent communication skills. Clearly articulating and documenting technical and functional specifications is a key requirement.

• Proactive problem-solver, Relationship builder and team player

• Negotiation, difficult conversation management and prioritization skills

• Promotes teamwork and builds strong relationships within and across global teams.

• Promotes continuous process improvement especially in code quality, testability & reliability.

• Ability to provide quick turnaround to software issues and management requests.

• Ability to assimilate key issues and concepts and come up to speed quickly.

• Ability to push an agenda in a matrix environment through influencing and collaboration.

• Experience in tracking and running project in Agile.

• Ability to build a comprehensive understanding of project stakeholders, subject matter, and priorities.

• Flexibility to work across different Time zones supporting stakeholders across LATAM, EMEA and ASPAC regions.

• Strong customer service focuses with the ability to communicate with highly technical management teams.

• Demonstrate excellent leadership, interpersonal, and team building skills.

Education:

• Bachelor’s/University degree, Master’s degree preferred

Understanding of corporate payments landscape and ISO 20022 standards is a must.

Job Family Group:

Technology

Job Family:

Technology Management

Time Type:

Full time

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