COO Enterprise Systems Architect, Citi

Citi

Location:
United States, New York

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Employment contract

Salary:

170000.00 - 300000.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

The COO Enterprise Systems Architect will be a key leader in the technology organization, responsible for designing and developing the overall architecture vision and strategy for cross-business COO functions such as payments control services, global reconciliations, reg. reporting, liquidity management, and strategic general ledger. This role focuses heavily on standardizing, simplifying, and scaling the current fragmented application landscape to deliver business value and drive efficiencies, with a critical emphasis on enterprise adoption of GenAI solutions.

Job Responsibility:

Define and maintain cohesive front-to-back system architecture across COO to reduce fragmentation, support shared services, automate controls, and reduce manual touch points
Engage with business and technology partners to define and execute GenAI adoption roadmap aligned with commercial, cost, and control priorities
Lead the design of scalable, resilient, and secure systems that reduce complexity and drive process efficiencies across business units
Develop systems architecture blueprints covering current and target state system flows, control definitions, STP vs. manual processing, and data contracts
Partner with business and technology stakeholders to define and enforce architecture principles, standards, and roadmaps
Drive simplification initiatives across application and infrastructure landscape, eliminating redundancies and technical debt
Decompose functionality across legacy, monolithic applications to be reengineered into shared services
Ensure architectural consistency across projects, platforms, and technologies by promoting reuse of shared components and standardized frameworks
Define and promote best practices for systems design, API strategies, data integration, and lifecycle management
Identify optimal technical and data solutions for adoption of GenAI solutions at scale
Evaluate low-code / no-code tools to support workflow automation, process mining, reporting and analytics
Lead architecture governance process including architecture review boards, technology assessments, and conformance to key design principles
Produce high-quality documentation and design artefacts
Efficiently build strong working relationship with Tech and business partners and become a thought leader in executing the target state architecture
Recruit and build a team of solution engineers and GenAI developers

Requirements:

15+ years experience in financial services with 7+ years supporting cross product / functional transformation
5+ years experience in leading large scale enterprise architecture initiatives within banking, financial services industry
Strong understanding of banking systems, financial services platforms, core banking, data platforms, market infrastructure providers, and regulatory frameworks
Understanding of language models, transformers, agentic frameworks
Rich understanding of vector stores and search algorithms
Experience with modern architecture frameworks including cloud-native designs, microservices, APIs, evet-based architecture, and DevOps practices
Demonstrable success in leading architecture simplification and modernization initiatives with proven business value generation
Experience with financial services standards such as ISDA FpML, FIX, ISO20022, internal product / process taxonomies is a plus
Experience with financial services regulations such as mandatory execution, BCBS-239, reg. reporting, etc. is a plus
Strategic thinker with creative problem-solving capabilities
Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science, or engineering. Masters degree preferred
Motivated self-starter with ability to pick up and learn new skills and knowledge quickly and navigate the organization
Ability to build and manage strong teams

Nice to have:

Experience with financial services standards such as ISDA FpML, FIX, ISO20022, internal product / process taxonomies
Experience with financial services regulations such as mandatory execution, BCBS-239, reg. reporting

What we offer:

medical, dental & vision coverage
401(k)
life, accident, and disability insurance
wellness programs
planned time off (vacation)
unplanned time off (sick leave)
paid holidays

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
July 12, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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