Global Head of Technology - CitiDirect Online Platform

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* Proven architecture experience in building horizontally scalable, highly available, real-time applications
* Understand how to build a great team of architects, developers and can mentor and upgrade the current team. You are a culture carrier, and developers look up to you.
* Have led a software organization through transformation from legacy on premise applications to microservices based applications in the cloud.
* Know how to make tradeoffs while designing platforms. You can explain in detail the design tradeoffs you made while building complex applications.
* Built applications on top of PAAS such as Pivotal Cloud Foundry or have built containerized applications on Kubernetes.
* Built a dev ops pipeline
* Anything you build, you build to run. Automate everything mindset.
* You have built applications with standard monitoring, observability, logging, and enabled blue-green deployment
* Open and collaborative communication
* Evaluates subordinates' performance and makes recommendations for pay increases, promotions, terminations, and other personnel actions.
* Responsible for providing architectural vision for all IT systems, ensuring that architecture conforms to enterprise blueprints.
* Develops architecture, strategy, planning, and problem-solving solutions on an enterprise level. Interfaces across several channels, acting as a visionary to proactively assist in defining direction for future projects.
* Maintains continuous awareness of business, technical and infrastructure issues and acts as a sounding board or consultant to aid in the development of creative solutions.
* Interfaces with vendors to assess their technology and to guide their product roadmap based on Citi requirements.
* Exhibits sound understanding of theories and practices in architecture and multiple related areas.
* Understanding of
** enterprise architecture** – both functional and technical – and experience in facilitating discussions around this in large organizations.
* Experience of
** cloud-native architectures
** and delivery of such solutions
** using microservice patterns
*** Experience and aptitude of
** Agile and Dev Ops
** approaches – e.g. continuous integration, test automation, frequent releases, containerization
* Experience in operating running
** highly visible projects with senior accountability
*** Understanding of
** HTTP and REST
** based architectures
* Basic knowledge of
** relational databases and SQL
*** Basic knowledge of
** non-relational databases such as MongoDB
*** Any experience with tools such as
** Team City, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Helm, Open Shift
** and
** Amazon Web*
* ** Services
* * would be beneficial.
* 20+ years of relevant experience
* 15+ years experience in applications development
* 15+ years experience managing global technology teams
* Experience in constructing and executing comprehensive delivery plans
* Proven track record in managing large initiatives
* Experience in evaluating subordinates' performance and makes recommendations for pay increases, promotions, terminations, and other personnel actions.
* Experience in providing architectural vision for all IT systems, ensuring that architecture conforms to enterprise blueprints.
* Experience in developing architecture, strategy, planning, and problem-solving solutions on an enterprise level. Interfaces across several channels, acting as a visionary to proactively assist in defining direction for future projects.
* Maintains continuous awareness of business, technical and infrastructure issues and acts as a sounding board or consultant to aid in the development of creative solutions.
* Working knowledge of industry practices and standards
* Interfaces with vendors to assess their technology and to guide their product roadmap based on Citi requirements.
* Exhibits sound understanding of theories and practices in architecture and multiple related areas.
* Ability and willingness to
** take personal responsibility
** for timeliness and quality of delivery
* ** Strong collaborative communication
** with business users and other technology teams
* Culture of
** continuous improvement** – always striving to approve the processes and practice of self and others
* Comfortable with giving and receiving
** open and honest feedback*
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