Head of Markets Finance Desk Technology (Director)

We are seeking an experienced technology leader to lead our Markets Finance Technology team. This is a senior management level position responsible for formulating and driving the technology strategy for modernization and transformation of our key Markets Financing Technology platforms. You will also be responsible for defining and executing the AI Engineering strategy across the organization, driving adoption of approved AI-enabled development tools and practices to improve engineering productivity, software quality, platform modernization, and delivery speed.

This role requires strong technical depth, and a proven track record of managing global development teams in a fast pace business environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Engineering Leadership: Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of software engineers, fostering a culture of strong engineering principles, product ownership, and continuous improvement. Provide technical guidance, perform code reviews, and drive best practices.

• Strategic Transformation: Drive the modernization and transformation of our core financing technology platforms covering booking, settlements, inventory/position management, collateral optimization, liquidity and risk management.

• Architecture & Design: Own the architecture and design of enterprise applications, focusing on distributed systems, and scalable solutions that adapt to changing market conditions. Ensure adherence to technical design, application development standards, and quality processes.

• Project & Product Delivery: Manage complex technology projects from conception to delivery, ensuring alignment with business requirements, deadlines, and quality standards. Oversee CI/CD automation and improve overall development team efficiency.

• Stakeholder & Risk Management: Collaborate extensively with business and operations stakeholders, and other partner technology teams to gather requirements, manage expectations, and deliver effective solutions. Identify and mitigate potential risks related to systems, processes, and regulatory compliance.

• System Optimization: Identify system bottlenecks and deficiencies, devising and implementing robust solutions to enhance resiliency, performance, and scalability. Provide technical consultation for performance testing and tuning

• Experience working in Fixed Income Financing products (specifically Repos, inventory & collateral management) is preferred.

• Strong working knowledge of the Fixed Income products lifecycle from execution to settlement, awareness of industry and competitors’ products and services is ideal.

• Deep understanding of modern software engineering practices and technologies, including Java-based distributed systems, event-driven architectures, caching technologies (GemFire, Ignite), messaging platforms, cloud-native architectures, and CI/CD automation.

• Highly credible hands-on engineer (Java), confident to deep dive into a product and codebase and offer detailed, constructive analysis and feedback

• Experience in building cloud native scalable platforms

• Demonstrated leadership, management, and development skills

• Proven managerial experience with the ability to develop a team that is seen as the engineering role model for the organization
• Proven track record of building new systems, replacing legacy systems and renovating existing systems.
• Exceptional communicator who loves working with people, confident communicating at all levels from an individual team to the entire enterprise
• Awareness of industry trends and leveraging new technologies as appropriate
• Experience in collaborating and influencing cross-functional teams

Education:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience in a similar role

By joining Citi London, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), but also receive a competitive base salary (which is annually reviewed), and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits such as:

• 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• A discretional annual performance related bonus
• Private Medical Care & Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Pension Plan
• Paid Parental Leave
• Special discounts for employees, family, and friends
• Access to an array of learning and development resources

Working at Citi is far more than just a job. A career with us means joining a team of approximately 219,000 dedicated people from around the globe. At Citi, you’ll have the opportunity to grow your career, give back to your community and make a real impact., Alongside these benefits Citi is committed to ensuring our workplace is where everyone feels comfortable coming to work as their whole self, every day. We want the best talent around the world to be energized to join us, motivated to stay and empowered to thrive.