Citigroup, Inc

Director, Migrations Lead for Core Banking Transformation - C15

Citigroup, Inc • $170K — $300K *
Finance & Insurance
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 15+ years overall experience in banking or financial services
  • 10+ years experience in large-scale migrations from legacy platforms to microservices
  • 10+ years proven experience in data conversions, analysis, and mappings
  • Deep expertise in architectural patterns for digital transformation
  • Strong understanding of Core Banking functionalities and domains like Payments, Loans, etc.
  • Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Hands-on experience with emerging technologies and cloud services

Responsibilities

  • Establish a repeatable data migration framework for LATAM applications
  • Lead end-to-end data migration testing across functional areas
  • Define and manage the migration runbook and control room operations
  • Provide thought-leadership in solution design and functional flows
  • Use cutting-edge patterns and technologies for transformation and migrations
  • Guide solution designers in building scalable solutions
  • Clearly articulate solution architecture to stakeholders

Benefits

  • Medical, dental & vision coverage
  • 401(k) savings plan
  • Life, accident, and disability insurance
  • Wellness programs
  • Paid time off (vacation, sick leave, holidays)
Full Job Description
Migrations Lead for Core Banking Transformation and Functional Architect Lead for NAM/LATAM regions - C15

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!

Job Family Group:
Technology

Job Family:
Architecture

Time Type:
Full time

Primary Location:
Jersey City New Jersey United States

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.

Most Relevant Skills
Please see the requirements listed above.

Other Relevant Skills
For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

Anticipated Posting Close Date:
Jun 23, 2025

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