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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. Our core activities are safeguarding assets, lending money, making payments, and accessing the capital markets on behalf of our clients.

Role Summary:

We are seeking an experienced and technically-astute Vice President to lead our Core Data Platforms team in Pune. This leader will be responsible for the foundational Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) systems that manage our critical client and account data for the entire Wealth Management division. This is a high-impact role at the heart of our technology stack, owning the systems of record that power every client and advisor interaction.

The ideal candidate is a hands-on leader with a deep background in managing large-scale, mission-critical data systems within premier financial institutions. You must have proven experience building and operating high-throughput, low-latency APIs that serve real-time data to a complex ecosystem of applications. This role requires an engineering leader who is driven by metrics, possesses an end-to-end view of their platform, and has an unwavering commitment to operational excellence and a strong work ethic.

Key Responsibilities:

• Platform Ownership: Lead a team of skilled engineers responsible for the design, development, and 24/7 operation of the core client and account OLTP databases and associated services.
• API Management: Oversee the entire lifecycle of the real-time data APIs that provide client and account information to advisor workstations, client-facing portals, and other critical applications. Ensure APIs are performant, reliable, and secure.
• Data Integrity & Scale: Take ultimate responsibility for the integrity, availability, and performance of petabyte-scale transactional data stores.
• Measurement & Analytics: Champion a culture of measurement. Define, monitor, and report on key performance indicators (KPIs) across the entire ecosystem, including database transaction times, API latency, system uptime, and consumer usage patterns.
• End-to-End Ecosystem View: Serve as the subject matter expert for the entire client and account data ecosystem. Maintain a deep understanding of the databases, the APIs, the operational tools, and all consuming applications to ensure seamless integration and rapid issue resolution.
• Technical Strategy: Partner with global architects and business leaders to define the technical roadmap for the core data platforms, driving modernization and continuous improvement.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with application development teams who consume your data services to understand their requirements, manage dependencies, and ensure they are building on a stable and performant foundation.

Qualifications:

• Experience: 13+ years of technology experience, with a significant track record in wealth management technology at leading financial institutions.
• Technical Expertise: Deep, hands-on experience managing large-scale, high-throughput OLTP databases (e.g., Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server).
• Proven track record of designing, building, and operating mission-critical, real-time RESTful APIs at scale.
• Strong data modeling skills for transactional systems.
• Expertise with performance measurement and monitoring tools (e.g., App Dynamics, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Leadership: Proven ability to lead, mentor, and manage a high-performing engineering team.
• Work Ethic & Ownership: A strong, demonstrable work ethic and a deep sense of ownership, with a history of seeing complex systems through from conception to long-term operational stability.
• Systems Thinker: The ability to maintain a holistic, end-to-end view of a complex technology ecosystem, from the underlying data store to the end-user experience.
• Communication: Excellent communication skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with technical teams and business stakeholders across different geographic locations.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

Job Family Group:

Technology

Job Family:

Applications Development

Time Type:

Full time

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