Lead Finance Business Architect, Senior Vice President

Overview

In this role, you will shape Citi’s Finance functional architecture and articulate a clear future state. You will work with Finance and Shared Services to define current and target architectures, guiding AI-enabled improvements and ensuring governance across data and platforms. You’ll influence technology decisions, mentor teams on architecture principles, and drive executive investment narratives. This is a strategic, cross-functional opportunity to transform Finance processes and reporting through architecture-led design.

Responsibilities

• Lead collaboration with Finance and Shared Services to define current and future-state business architectures
• Partner with data architects to influence Finance-wide data vision, governance, and platform direction
• Align strategic technical investments to the target state architecture across Finance technology partners
• Develop and evangelise business architecture principles for straight-through processing and accurate financial reporting
• Champion Citi architecture principles and advise engineering teams on application
• Shape Book of Work scope and sequence and participate in Finance Tech Design Authority
• Own and govern Permit to Design/Permit to Build processes; produce architecture strategy papers and executive investment narratives
• Identify and prioritise opportunities to embed AI/ML/GenAI within Finance processes with governance
• Lead capability mapping, maturity assessments, and heat maps to inform investment prioritisation
• Maintain central architecture knowledge repository and promote continuous improvement of the business architecture discipline

Key requirements

• Extensive experience in an engineering/architecture capacity supporting Finance or related functions (financial services preferred)
• Proven track record delivering cross-functional business process improvement and enterprise-wide architecture change
• Experience leading virtual/matrix teams; ability to own initiatives end-to-end
• Outstanding communication skills for influence from developers to senior executives
• Methodical, detail-oriented approach with modern enterprise information architecture practices
• AI domain knowledge: conceptual understanding of AI/ML, GenAI, and agency automation in Finance use cases
• Experience with prompt engineering and AI-enabled productivity
• Understanding of data confidentiality and Responsible AI in regulated financial services

• strong stakeholder management
• influencing and communication
• collaboration across cross-functional teams
• AI/GenAI concepts and governance
• Finance data architecture and governance
• ERP ecosystems (SAP S/4HANA, Oracle Financials)

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