Head of Architecture - Core Banking Modernization - Jersey City - C15

Company: National Black MBA Association
Location: Jersey City
Posted on: May 24, 2025

Job Description:

About Citi Services TechnologyCiti Services, a business line within Citi, is embarking on a period of significant growth and investment. Citi Services offers the full spectrum of products in the domains of Payments, Liquidity, Trade and Working Capital, Investor services and Issuer services across multiple jurisdictions.To meet the objectives of the business, Services Technology is undergoing an exciting transformation and modernization program focused on improving stability, agility, scalability, and efficiency in how we operate and to ultimately deliver the best outcomes to our business and clients, and with continued differentiating product offeringsAbout the roleCore Banking Technology which is part of Citi Services Technology is seeking a Senior Architecture Lead for leading the target state architecture definition for Core Banking modernization in LATAM region. This is a key regulatory commitment for the franchise and will involve designing the target state solution across 20+ platforms front to back from Product Processors all the way to Finance and Regulatory Reporting for each of the markets. The role will be based out of Jersey City, NJ, United StatesResponsibilities

• Lead the architecture and discovery efforts for the in-scope LATAM markets, define the roadmap for moving from current state to thetarget state architecture and interim states influenced by migration strategy
• Communicate the agreed solution architecture to senior stakeholders and collaborate with technology partners and domain architects in the formalization and adoption of IT standards and procedure
• Interface with Services Architecture and other LOB architects, including representation in Design authority, Architecture workshops and Program Steering Committee
• Collaborate with product teams across Payments, Loans, Liquidity, Trade, Markets, Operations and Finance to understand business drivers and provide thought leadership in solution design by decomposing requirements and collaboratively developing solutions that adhere to Services architecture principles and strategic blueprint.
• Own, manage and apply architecture governance on solutions diagrams, application integration design, application mappings and data concepts.
• Champion engineering excellence by actively promoting and governing the use of development standards and principles.
• Create traceability between service offering documents, business requirements and the design/build of solutions
• Lead a highly skilled team of solution architects and develop rapid prototypes as needed using a technology stack based on Java Spring boot, Mongo, React, AngularQualifications
  • 15+ years overall experience in a banking / financial services industry
  • Experienced in architecture patterns enabling digital transformation, platform modernization, cloud onboarding and footprint simplification in large scale transformations
  • Exceptional communication skills both verbal and written, influencing and engagement skills across all levels in the organization and ability to explain complex concepts to non-technical colleagues
  • Experience in designing hybrid architectures where applications reside both on-premise and public cloud including understanding of cloud provider services. Hands on experience with AWS services like EKS, Azure, AKS, GCP, GKEis a plus
  • Experience with large scale transformations while architecting and supporting frameworks for High Throughput and Real Time systems using microservices, domain driven design
  • Demonstrable expertise in the development of standards, architectural adoption and governance methods, design patterns and IT practices
  • API design/development experience including underlying technologies: REST, JSON, Swagger, YAML, SOAP
  • Experience in automating practical solutions for SDLC and Release management through CI and related tools including but not limited to: Gitlab, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Maven, Nexus, Artifactory, Sonar, Jira, Confluence, etc.
  • Experience with Oracle databases, integration/middleware technologies like TIBCO/FUSE, ETL tools like Talend
  • Knowledge of Core Banking platforms and business flows related to payments processing, liquidity etc. is a plusEducation:
    • Bachelor's/University degreein computer science, computer engineering or a related field------------------------------------------------------Job Family Group:Technology------------------------------------------------------Job Family:Architecture------------------------------------------------------Time Type:Full time------------------------------------------------------Primary Location:Jersey City New Jersey United States------------------------------------------------------Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:$170,000.00 - $300,000.00
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