Overview

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Responsibilities

• Drive the product- and business-planning processes for cross-functional teams (central cloud engineering and application teams).
• Analyze customer needs, current market trends, and potential partnerships to drive the curation of services in cloud.
• Work with application teams to build roadmaps for each curated cloud service and prioritize work for engineering teams to deliver the service.
• Analyze product requirements and develop the appropriate product team approach to delivering them.
• Develop, implement, and maintain production timelines across multiple departments.
• Appraise new product ideas and strategize go-to-market plans.
• Create a cohesive delivery function in Citi by aligning application teams with central cloud engineering teams and establishing, executing, and measuring OKRs.
• Act as a product evangelist to drive scaled adoption of released products across Citi.

Required skills and qualifications

• Demonstrated experience leading engineering teams to deliver cloud infrastructure as code that builds platforms and services in Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud.
• Technical engineering background, with hands-on experience of Terraform, Python, Java, and Go.
• Extensive experience delivering cloud modernization in large, complex global organizations, including understanding of application architectures, cloud-native services and automation.
• Ability to build central cloud pipelines, compute and data platforms, and evidence of leading engineering teams to deliver this in prior roles.
• Product engineering leadership experience with roadmaps, prioritization, and driving value outcomes; a contributor to Citi's cloud strategy and modernization program.
• 10+ years in a dynamic product management role.
• Proven success overseeing all elements of the product development lifecycle.
• High effectiveness in managing cross-functional teams.
• 10+ years of delivering products leveraging cloud services.
• Proven software delivery experience with iterative/continuous deployments.
• Strong technical understanding of software delivery, cloud-native services, providers’ tools.
• Experience identifying, driving, and facilitating external partnerships that accelerate product usage and customer adoption and overall success.
• Extensive track record leading product and engineering teams.
• Exceptional writing and editing skills, with strong presentation and public speaking skills.
• Curious, problem-solving leadership style.
• Able to develop and sustain a strong product culture and team, energizing members while holding them accountable to goals.
• Align strategy with product performance metrics (KPIs) that reflect capacity, utilization, efficiency, uptime.

Preferred skills and qualifications

• Previous experience in software and web development.
• Understanding of value stream mapping and how to increase productivity of development teams.
• Track record of working in financial services or other regulated industries, specifically regarding the leveraging of cloud services.
• Solid understanding of prioritization methodologies and how to break work down and deliver using a lean approach, working in close collaboration with Agile delivery managers.

Personal characteristics

• “Servant” leadership and action-oriented who can set strategy and drive execution with a “roll up the sleeves” approach.
• Personally committed to moving aggressively to achieve scale.
• Extremely detail oriented person that leads with process and discipline.
• Entrepreneurial and ambitious with a “can-do” mentality.
• A natural collaborator.
• Forward-thinking, optimistic and excited about driving cloud transformation in large enterprise organizations.
• Flexibility to adapt to dynamic and rapidly changing and ambiguous environments.
• An obsession with building exceptional products; you are entrepreneurial but can operate at scale.

We offer

By joining Citi London, you will be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), and a competitive base salary (annually reviewed) plus a range of benefits:

• 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• Discretionary annual performance-related bonus
• Private medical care and life insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Pension plan
• Paid parental leave
• Special discounts for employees, family, and friends
• Access to learning and development resources

Visit Citi's Global Benefits page to learn more.

Additionally, Citi is committed to ensuring our workplace is inclusive and supportive. We want the best talent to join us, stay, and thrive.

Job details

• Seniority level: Not Applicable
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries: Banking, Financial Services, and Investment Banking