Head of Markets Finance Desk Technology (Director)

Overview

Vous will lead Citi’s Markets Finance Technology team to shape modernization across core financing platforms and drive the AI engineering strategy. In this senior role, you will define technical direction, supervise global engineering teams, and partner with business and operations to deliver high-impact, scalable solutions. You will tackle performance, resilience, and regulatory-compliance considerations while advancing platform modernization. This is a chance to influence engineering culture and drive transformation in a fast-paced, global bank.

Pay / Benefits

• 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Private Medical Care & Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Pension Plan
• Paid Parental Leave

Responsibilities

• Engineering leadership: mentor engineers, promote best practices and product ownership
• Strategic transformation: modernize core financing platforms (booking, settlements, collateral, liquidity, risk)
• Architecture & design: own distributed, scalable enterprise architectures
• Project & product delivery: manage end-to-end delivery with CI/CD focus
• Stakeholder & risk management: collaborate with business/ops and manage regulatory risks
• System optimization: identify bottlenecks, improve performance and resiliency

Key requirements

• Experience in Fixed Income Financing products (repos, collateral management) preferred
• Java-based distributed systems expertise
• Event-driven architectures, caching (GemFire, Ignite)
• Cloud-native platforms and CI/CD automation
• Strong leadership and global team management experience
• Ability to communicate with stakeholders at all levels
• Bachelor in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Proven track record of replacing legacy systems and delivering new ones

• Exceptional communicator
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Strategic thinking
• Java
• Distributed systems
• Event-driven architectures

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