Job Description

Overview of the Organization

Markets Operations Technology is part of Citi\xe2\x80\x99s Institutional Clients Group (ICG) Markets Technology organization. We deliver innovative engineering solutions to Markets Middle Office and Operations teams across Equities, Prime, Global Spread Products, Rates and Commodities, including solutions to automate Settlement, Confirmations, Margin and Collateral management, Exception Management, Reporting, Client Experience. We are currently driving a complex multi-year technology transformation program across multiple domains and functions in order to modernize our application portfolio, support the growth of the Capital Markets businesses, increase operations automation and improve our risk and control landscape

Overview of the Role

The Asia Head of Markets Operations technology will be responsible for developing and delivering technology solutions for our Asia operations teams across multiple local markets and locations. The role will be responsible for identifying opportunities to leverage the strategic global applications to solve for local problems as well as managing a team of software engineers providing local solutions where appropriate.

The role will be a key technology partner to the Asia Head of Markets Operations, Markets Technology Asia Head , Asia O&T Head and Asia Business Leads

The role will also act as the India site lead for our organisation, responsible for driving site level communication strategies, talent management, recruitment & workforce planning, reward and recognition initiatives, community events, diversity and inclusion initiatives, training and acting as a local escalation point for our teams in the region.

Priorities include:

• Develop and deliver solutions that improve client service and establish Markets Operations technology as a core business and operations partner to our Asia business and operations partners
• Identify, develop and attract market leading talent, and drive a delivery culture, improve diversity across many measures.
• Foster a culture of community, innovation and engineering excellence across the enterprise
• Maintain active, positive relationships with key members of the Asia Markets Operations organization, increasing collaboration and partnership.
• Review, adapt and evolve our current target state architecture and transition plan to leverage it to solve for local problems, minimizing bespoke local applications where possible.
• Ensure priorities and decisions are data led, with robust KPIs to measure return on investment.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement best in class Operations platforms across a number of post trade activities, domains and asset classes across Asia markets.
• Build strong partnerships with key local partners across technology and operations organisations
• Review current operations system landscape and drive to modernize systems and align with global strategy.
• Engage with Strategic Initiatives to help scope and shape those initiatives to ensure the outcomes are aligned to the Citi\xe2\x80\x99s Engineering and Architecture Principles (EAP), including formulating detailed boundaries, connections and deployments.
• Recognize and identify key data and functional dependencies and cross silo redundancies.
• Champion engineering excellence by actively promoting and governing the use of development standards and principles.
• Own, manage and apply architecture governance on systems inventory, lifecycle management (EOVS/EOL) on IT assets and reduce technical debt.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years relevant experience.
• Hands-on technology leader who promotes and thrives in a culture of collaboration, partnerships, inclusion, and diversity.
• Background in Financial Sector with a good functional knowledge of (either/or) Operations, Middle Office and Front Office.
• Demonstrable experience in architecture patterns enabling digital transformation, platform modernization, cloud onboarding and footprint simplification.
• Exceptional communicating, influencing and engagement skills across all levels in the organization.
• Ability to organize and prioritize critical information to facilitate efficient decision making, providing oversight and guidance to team members in implementing successful projects.

• Degree in computer science, computer engineering or a related field, Masters desirable.
• Good understanding of data and data concepts including data standards, data quality and data models.
• Exemplary written and oral skills required, ability to synthesize key messages
• Experience and ease in interfacing with Senior Management.
• Good influencing, facilitation, and partnering skills.
• The candidate must be able to work with teams as well as independently in a dynamic, fast paced environment.

Job Family Group: Technology



Job Family: Technology Management



Time Type: Full time



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