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Director, Migrations Lead for Core Banking Transformation - C15

Jersey City, New Jersey

Job Type: On-Site/Resident

Job Req ID 25872259

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Overview

Citi is undergoing a Transformation to modernize and simplify the bank. We’re raising the bar and taking the opportunity to reevaluate the way we do business. This includes fostering a culture of curiosity and excellence and shifting our mindset to be simpler and data driven, making Citi an easier place to work and improving client experience. If you’re ready to be at the forefront of Transformation while taking your career to the next level, we invite you to come and join us!

Success Profile

As one of the world’s most global banks, Citi gives you the tools to make a difference. Through Transformation, we’re building the future of the bank and shaping the banking industry. Citi employs over 220,000 individuals located around the world, encompassing a broad range of teams, roles, cultures and backgrounds. Some of the skills that will make you successful in this role include:

Cross-Functional Collaboration
Credible Challenge
Risk Management
Data and Results Driven
Accountable
Adaptable

Responsibilities

Migrations Lead for Core Banking Transformation and Functional Architect Lead for NAM/LATAM regions - C15

About Citi Services Technology and LATAM Core Banking Transformation

Citi Services, a business line within Citi, is embarking on a period of significant growth and investment. Citi Services offers the full spectrum of products in the domains of Payments, Liquidity, Trade and Working Capital, Investor services and Issuer services across multiple jurisdictions.

Services Technology is undergoing an exciting transformation to improve agility, scalability, and efficiency in delivering best-in-class product offerings. Within Services Technology, the LATAM Core Banking Transformation team is driving platform modernization across 11 LATAM countries, migrating from monolithic Bank-In-a-Box platform to globally consistent microservices solutions. The team is responsible to meet regulatory commitments as well as define the blueprint for Core Banking modernization globally.

About the Role

Core Accounts Technology is seeking a seasoned lead for Migrations/Data Conversions for large scale transformations of legacy systems, as well as a Functional Architecture Lead in the Core Banking domain. This role will spearhead the migration of accounts and products from legacy Bank-in-a-Box platforms to our strategic Best-of-Breed target application suite.

This is a high-impact role in which you will work closely with technology, product and operations partners to define solution design including selection of tools/technology, data profiling and mapping, pipelines/workflow for data transformation and conversion across multiple applications, data reconciliations, end-to-end release management, as well as controls required for complete front to back experience.

Your leadership will be instrumental in shaping enterprise architecture, data architecture and promoting engineering excellence. In this role, you will lead engineering efforts to design and implement processes and tooling using exciting new technologies shape the future of banking.

Responsibilities:

Define the Future: Establish a repeatable data migration framework for LATAM across a large number of applications, setting the standard for global Core Banking Transformations.
Drive Success: Lead end-to-end data migration testing and dress rehearsals across key functional areas (Payments, Channels, Billing, Statements, Liquidity, Regulatory & Financial reporting).
Master the Migration: Define and manage the migration runbook and control room operations. Advise Business & Operations in defining Production Validation Testing (PVT) scope. Manage effective resolution of issues identified during PVT.
Lead Functional Architecture for best-in-class Solutions: Provide thought-leadership in solution design, including functional flows, data flows, data integration across applications, adhering to Citi’s architecture principles and strategic blueprint. Lead awareness of business, technical, and infrastructure issues and develop creative solutions.
Innovate: Use cutting edge patterns and technologies to achieve reliable, high performance flows with repeatable tools/processes for transformations and migrations.
Lead Technical Excellence: Guide solution designers and development leads in building robust and scalable solutions.
Communicate and Collaborate: Clearly articulate solution architecture to stakeholders and partner with technology teams.
Govern Architecture: Own and enforce architecture governance on solutions diagrams, application integration design, and data concepts.
Champion Engineering Standards: Promote and enforce the use of development standards and best practices.
Ensure Traceability: Create traceability between service offering documents, business requirements and the design/build of solutions.

Qualifications

15+ years overall experience in a banking / financial services industry.
10+ years experience and proven success in large-scale migrations from monolithic legacy platform to microservices based solutions that transform internal processes and improve client experience.
10+ years proven experience with data conversions, data analysis, data mapping and ETL conversions, tooling for repeatable migrations across a large portfolio.
10+ years experience and deep expertise in architecture patterns for digital transformation, platform modernization, cloud onboarding and footprint simplification.
Strong understanding of Core Banking functionalities is preferred. Domain expertise in one or more areas like Payments, Loans, Channels, Billing, Statements, Liquidity & Finance.
Strong expertise in technical analysis and ability to produce detailed mapping specifications and data flow diagrams.
Expertise in the development of standards, architectural adoption and governance methods, design patterns and IT practices.
Exceptional communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills.
Experience with Oracle databases and integration/middleware technologies (e.g. TIBCO/FUSE, ETL tools like Talend), canonical data models
Experience with Event-driven microservices architectures. Hands on experience with cloud services is a plus (AWS EKS, Azure AKS, GCP GKE).
Proficiency in API design and development (REST, JSON, Swagger, YAML, SOAP).
Experience automating SDLC and Release management through CI/CD pipelines using tools like Gitlab, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Maven, Nexus, Artifactory, Sonar, etc.
Hands-on experience with emerging technologies. Preferred experience in designing hybrid architectures (on-premise and public cloud).

Education:

Bachelor’s/University degree in computer science, computer engineering or a related field (Masters desirable) or equivalent experience, potentially Masters degree

Join Us and Shape the Future of Banking!

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Job Family Group:

Technology

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Job Family:

Architecture

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Time Type:

Full time

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Primary Location:

Jersey City New Jersey United States

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Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:

$170,000.00 - $300,000.00

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.

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Anticipated Posting Close Date:

Jun 12, 2025

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Success Stories

“By joining Transformation, you will be at the center of driving change at Citi. You’ll help us lay the foundation to make this a better place to work and do business by implementing sound risk and controls. This team will give you a launchpad of endless opportunities to grow as a professional and challenge yourself while working across various functions.”

Usman B.

Risk & Controls Transformation Lead
New York

“Citi hires people for their potential and not just their experience. This gives people, including myself, the opportunity to try different roles and explore new careers. Transformation at Citi is a new adventure and will challenge how we do things at Citi: with clients, with regulators and with our peers.”

Cynthia D.

Mexico Transformation Head

“Data Transformation is a great area to be a part of at Citi. Data is at the heart of our business and ensuring that our data is of good quality with clear ownership is imperative to our success.”

Dan F.

Data Operating Model and Governance Program Lead
New York

“This is an exciting area to work in at Citi! Being part of Transforming a 200+ year-old institution is a once in a lifetime opportunity. This is relatively new work, so not only you can learn new skills and get exposure, but you can play a pivotal role in shaping the Citi of the future.”