About Citi:

Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management.

As a bank with a brain and a soul, Citi creates economic value that is systemically responsible and, in our clients’, best interests. As a financial institution that touches every region of the world and every sector that shapes your daily life, our Enterprise Operations & Technology teams are charged with a mission that rivals any large tech company. Our technology solutions are the foundations of everything we do from keeping the bank safe, managing global resources, and providing the technical tools our workers need to be successful to designing our digital architecture and ensuring our platforms provide a first-class customer experience. We reimagine client and partner experiences to deliver excellence through secure, reliable, and efficient services.

Our commitment to diversity includes a workforce that represents the clients we serve from all walks of life, backgrounds, and origins. We foster an environment where the best people want to work. We value and demand respect for others, promote individuals based on merit, and ensure opportunities for personal development are widely available to all. Ideal candidates are innovators with well-rounded backgrounds who bring their authentic selves to work and complement our culture of delivering results with pride. If you are a problem solver who seeks passion in your work, come join us. We’ll enable growth and progress together.

About Our Team:

The Digital Engineering space is home to deeply talented colleagues that work to design, build and test customer products and platforms end-to-end. They not only scale and mature solutions to acquire and grow our customer base, but they also support platforms and frameworks, champion engineering excellence and enhance the customer digital experience around partnerships, servicing, lending, marketing rewards, and offers and payments.

As a Senior Technical Program Manager , you will be working within the Digital Platforms & Marketing space, performing the Technical Program Management activities for enterprise level programs which includes planning, execution and delivery. This role will require focus on managing the day-to-day scrum team activities, dependency management, impediment removal, creating project and delivery plans, SDLC artifacts and adherence, budget management, executive reporting and other on-going program management tasks.

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for planning and managing a group of related technology projects or activities in a coordinated way from inception through successful delivery.

• Have a deep understanding of the design approaches and technologies utilized in your area.

• Focus on the customer experience, the build and delivery processes and the problems to be solved.

• Work across multiple scrum teams. Work may be cross-cutting across products, scrum teams, and/or technologies or your work may be vertically focused on a single product or feature set.

• Align dependent organizations and remove/mitigate all blocking issues.

• May work directly with external to Global Digital or external to Citi technology providers and customers.

• Work with limited guidance, seeking guidance as needed. The product and delivery strategy is defined; the design is not.

• Have a deep understanding of the business and technical requirements for the solutions being built.

• Understand the needs of the engineers and technical operations teams who have to build, maintain, and operate the system for the life of the system.

• Recognize complex designs and propose simplified solutions by working with software design engineers, principals, and TPMs.

• Help customers and the engineering teams make trade-off decisions by considering all of the data including business goals, technical platform strategy, customer experience, maintainability.

• Identify blocking issues and manage their resolution, anticipate bottlenecks and adequately factor in contingency for unplanned delays. You identify, assess, track and mitigate issues and risks at multiple levels. Determine if success metrics are in place and if not, work to define them.

• Write documentation as required.

• Partner with industry vendors that provide technology or user experience design components that support our Digital architecture and work with vendors on our implementation plans and roadmaps identifying partnership opportunities to increase our development velocity and our learnings.

• Communicate roll up of project issues and status in a concise, accurate, and professional manner for senior leadership consumption, escalating blocking issues when appropriate.

• Communicate progress, anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, identify, assess, track and mitigate issues/risks at multiple levels.

• Recognize discordant views and take part in constructive dialog to resolve them.

• Work across teams to optimize processes. Regularly review metrics and proactively seek out new and improved data/mechanisms for visibility ensuring your program stays aligned with organization objectives.

• Continuously assess development processes, test plans, and operations.

• Work with teams to improve concurrent project delivery.

• Streamline and/or eliminate excess process in any area of the architecture, production operations environment, or business area where the same efforts (or issues) are repeated year-over-year.

• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

Qualifications:

• 6+ years of experience in a technical project/program management position including time as a software developer, preferably in the banking or financial services industry

• Significant experience managing complex business and/or transactional models.

• Demonstrated experience as a strong leader who can prioritize well, communicate clearly and compellingly, effectively influencing across cross functional teams.

• Experience in managing regulatory technology (RegTech) programs ensuring compliance with banking regulations such as Dodd-Frank , GDPR , and Basel III .

• Expertise in managing projects using Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban) and Waterfall models .

• Proficient in tools like JIRA , Confluence , Microsoft Project , Asana , and Trello .

• Understanding of monitoring and alerting tools like Splunk , Nagios , and New Relic .

• Experience with AWS , Google Cloud Platform , or Microsoft Azure .

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines , Jenkins , Docker , Kubernetes , and Git for automating code deployments and managing environments.

• Familiar with large-scale enterprise applications such as Oracle , SAP , or Salesforce .

• General understanding of technologies such as Java , Python , or C++ (not required to code, but able to interface with technical teams) .

• Experience with relational databases like MySQL , PostgreSQL , or Oracle , and familiarity with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB .

• Certifications such as PMP , CSM (Certified Scrum Master) , or SAFe is a plus .

Education:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related

Job Family Group:

Technology

Job Family:

Digital Technical Program Management

Time Type:

Full time

Primary Location:

Irving Texas United States

Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:

$138,720.00 - $208,080.00

In addition to salary, Citi’s offerings may also include, for eligible employees, discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards. Citi offers competitive employee benefits, including: medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs. Citi also offers paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays. For additional information regarding Citi employee benefits, please visit citibenefits.com. Available offerings may vary by jurisdiction, job level, and date of hire.

Anticipated Posting Close Date:

Aug 28, 2024

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