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About the Role

Seeking an experienced technology leader to head the Markets Finance Technology team. This senior management role involves driving the technology strategy for modernization and transformation of key Markets Financing Technology platforms, and defining/executing the AI Engineering strategy to enhance engineering productivity, software quality, platform modernization, and delivery speed.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of software engineers, fostering a culture of strong engineering principles, product ownership, and continuous improvement.
• Provide technical guidance, perform code reviews, and drive best practices.
• Drive the modernization and transformation of core financing technology platforms covering booking, settlements, inventory/position management, collateral optimization, liquidity and risk management.
• Own the architecture and design of enterprise applications, focusing on distributed systems, and scalable solutions that adapt to changing market conditions.
• Ensure adherence to technical design, application development standards, and quality processes.
• Manage complex technology projects from conception to delivery, ensuring alignment with business requirements, deadlines, and quality standards.
• Oversee CI/CD automation and improve overall development team efficiency.
• Collaborate extensively with business and operations stakeholders, and other partner technology teams to gather requirements, manage expectations, and deliver effective solutions.
• Identify and mitigate potential risks related to systems, processes, and regulatory compliance.
• Identify system bottlenecks and deficiencies, devising and implementing robust solutions to enhance resiliency, performance, and scalability.
• Provide technical consultation for performance testing and tuning.

Requirements

• Experience working in Fixed Income Financing products (specifically Repos, inventory & collateral management) is preferred.
• Strong working knowledge of the Fixed Income products lifecycle from execution to settlement, awareness of industry and competitors’ products and services is ideal.
• Deep understanding of modern software engineering practices and technologies, including Java-based distributed systems, event-driven architectures, caching technologies (GemFire, Ignite), messaging platforms, cloud-native architectures, and CI/CD automation.
• Highly credible hands-on engineer (Java), confident to deep dive into a product and codebase and offer detailed, constructive analysis and feedback.
• Experience in building cloud native scalable platforms.
• Demonstrated leadership, management, and development skills.
• Proven managerial experience with the ability to develop a team that is seen as the engineering role model for the organization.
• Proven track record of building new systems, replacing legacy systems and renovating existing systems.
• Exceptional communicator who loves working with people, confident communicating at all levels from an individual team to the entire enterprise.
• Awareness of industry trends and leveraging new technologies as appropriate.
• Experience in collaborating and influencing cross-functional teams.

Skills

• Java-based distributed systems
• Event-driven architectures
• Caching technologies (GemFire, Ignite)
• Messaging platforms
• Cloud-native architectures
• CI/CD automation
• Fixed Income Financing products (Repos, inventory & collateral management)
• Fixed Income products lifecycle
• Leadership
• Management
• Development
• Communication

Location

• London

Work Type

• Hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week)
• Full time

Experience Level

• Director
• Senior management level
• Managerial experience

Education Level

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience in a similar role

Salary/Compensations

• Competitive base salary (which is annually reviewed)

Benefits

• 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• A discretional annual performance related bonus
• Private Medical Care & Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Pension Plan
• Paid Parental Leave
• Special discounts for employees, family, and friends
• Access to an array of learning and development resources

About the Company

• Citi is committed to ensuring our workplace is where everyone feels comfortable coming to work as their whole self, every day.
• We want the best talent around the world to be energized to join us, motivated to stay and empowered to thrive.

Equal Opportunity

• Citi is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law.
• If you are a person with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to use our search tools and/or apply for a career opportunity review Accessibility at Citi.
• View Citi’s EEO Policy Statement and the Know Your Rights poster.