Equities e-Trading Infrastructure Systems Architect

The Equities e-Trading Infrastructure Systems Architect - Vice President is a senior-level position responsible for Systems Architecture aligned to low latency electronic trading infrastructure technologies. The overall objective of this role is to act as EQ lead for electronic trading infrastructure architecture. We are looking for an industry wide Senior Systems Architect – Infrastructure who can provide leadership and direction for Change-The-Bank (CTB) electronic trading infrastructure initiatives covering all technologies (in this specific domain) for EQ. The role sits within Citi’s Global Markets: High Performance Architectures – Infrastructure (HPAi) group. This team is responsible for all electronic trading infrastructure architecture across all markets globally for the firm. It is composed of low latency Subject Matter Experts (North America, EMEA), Systems Architects (both regional and asset class aligned) and an aligned initiative management function (e.g. Technical Project Manager). Technology is key to our business; this role will require you to drive innovation and technology adoption in a large multi-faceted and complex environment. This Markets-Tech “business aligned tech” resource will collaborate with ICG-Markets “the business”, CTI “Enterprise Infrastructure”, and CISO “Security” teams driving technical architecture and engineering of CTB and End of Vendor Support (EoVS) initiatives where we choose to innovate. Reporting to the head of HPAi, the Systems Architect will be responsible for ensuring best in breed technology architecture and engineering are in alignment with business requirements. This will be done in collaboration with CISO and CTS resources aligned to HPAi who represent Enterprise and CISO priorities and standards. Active collaboration with all parties is required to be successful. The resource should be able to effectively collaborate with the Markets-Tech Electronic Trading organization (our clients), steer other technology organizations directly or through influence, and love rolling up their sleeves and working as an individual contributor. The resource will leverage the full strength of the supporting non-ICG technology organizations (dedicated and non-dedicated to HPAi). The role is very broad requiring a resource that is not afraid to do new things and be challenged on a regular basis with a can-do attitude and an engineering mindset. Ideal candidate has deep desire to drive results and an unquenchable desire to understand how technology primitives work (and how to abuse them). To succeed in this role, you must enjoy working independently and collaborating, being a hands-on contributor, learning on the fly and embrace change – rapid pace. You must be able to understand full-stack electronic trading technologies and engage effectively in a very technical manner with other SMEs, systems architects, the business (at times), Markets-Tech, and enterprise infrastructure organizations (CTI/CISO).