Operations Technology Testing Delivery Manager- SVP

Job Description

Overview of the Role

Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management.

As a bank with a brain and a soul, Citi creates economic value that is systemically responsible and in our clients best interests. As a financial institution that touches every region of the world and every sector that shapes your daily life, our Enterprise Operations & Technology teams are charged with a mission that rivals any large tech company. Our technology solutions are the foundations of everything we do from keeping the bank safe, managing global resources, and providing the technical tools our workers need to be successful to designing our digital architecture and ensuring our platforms provide a first-class customer experience. We reimagine client and partner experiences to deliver excellence through secure, reliable, and efficient services.

Our commitment to diversity includes a workforce that represents the clients we serve from all walks of life, backgrounds, and origins. We foster an environment where the best people want to work. We value and demand respect for others, promote individuals based on merit, and ensure opportunities for personal development are widely available to all. Ideal candidates are innovators with well-rounded backgrounds who bring their authentic selves to work and complement our culture of delivering results with pride. If you are a problem solver who seeks passion in your work, come join us. Well enable growth and progress together.

The Operations Technology Testing Delivery Manager is accountable for management of complex/critical/large professional disciplinary areas. Leads and directs a team of professionals. Requires a comprehensive understanding of multiple areas within a function and how they interact in order to achieve the objectives of the function. Applies in-depth understanding of the business impact of technical contributions. Strong commercial awareness is a necessity. Generally accountable for delivery of a full range of services to one or more businesses/ geographic regions. Excellent communication skills required in order to negotiate internally, often at a senior level. Some external communication may be necessary. Accountable for the end results of an area. Exercises control over resources, policy formulation and planning. Primarily affects a sub-function. Involved in short- to medium-term planning of actions and resources for own area. Full management responsibility of a team or multiple teams, including management of people, budget and planning, to include performance evaluation, compensation, hiring, disciplinary actions and terminations and budget approval.

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for managing the lifecycle for a complex cross functional body of work that has a long term positive impact on the company.
• Able to define and organize the program, outline tenets, analyze data, drive performance improvements, and influence resource allocation for all stages of execution.
• Work across scrum teams and across organizations. May be assigned to deliver the multi-year roadmap for a CEOs book of business.
• May plan the associated technology roadmap for Global Digital and influence dependent organizations roadmaps by contributing to their planning documents and goal setting exercises.
• May focus on a single product, focus in a key technology area or focus more broadly, managing larger initiatives that span organizations and geographies in support of a larger cross-cutting business goal.
• May be accountable for the delivery of an organizational goal.
• Influence teams to decouple from dependencies and eliminate architectural problems.
• Drive and influence transformational change in the evolution of our end to end product delivery using agile development methodology.
• Look forward 1-3 years to drive architectural and organizational changes that enable your programs and products to be successful in the long term without your participation.
• Drive clarity and work with complete independence as business and/or technical strategy is not defined.
• Have a comprehensive understanding of the business domain, the systems, and the products in your space; understand their accountabilities, boundaries, limitations, scale factors.
• Understand the reasons behind architectural decisions while providing a long-term perspective for business and technology choices.
• Use technical judgment to challenge proposals and validate assumptions and enlist Sr. engineering support to vet architecture as required.
• Accountable for the overall strategy and for driving the teams inside and outside of your organization to deliver the expected results. Drive mindful discussion with business and technical stakeholders that lead to timely decisions. Collaborate with customers and technology teams to determine what projects move forward in what priority order. Make smart trade-off decisions balancing efforts, delivery timelines, features, and technical constraints. Identify and remove blockers and always find the path forward in challenging situations.
• Create plans that have a clear path to delivery helping the teams organize for delivery while maximizing resources for the greater good of the Digital organization.
• Understand technical program management and engineering best practices and apply best practices to the software development lifecycle (SDLC) for projects based on experiences with a number of agile and blended approaches, as well effectively coordinating the implementations across teams using very different approaches
• Excellent communicator and comfortable communicating to all levels of the organization both in writing and in person. Articulate progress against goals, scorecard metrics, and committed roadmaps.
• Active participant in the community sharing your Citibank program management knowledge within your organization and more broadly presenting at both internal and external events.
• Work across organizations looking for ways to align teams, technologies (i.e. the infrastructure used to build/deploy/operate services), and organizations to simple coherent approaches that optimize organizational structures and operating mechanisms. Recognize prior failure patterns and help teams avoid repeating these mistakes.
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of relevant experience including program management and software development experience
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills; Data driven and results-oriented
• Experience in running high traffic, distributed, cloud based services
• Experience in affecting large culture change
• Experience leading infrastructure programs
• Skilled at working with third party service providers
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Ability to work with seamlessly with remote teams?
• Experience delivering with an agile methodology

Education:

• Bachelors/University degree, Masters degree preferred

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In addition to salary, Citis 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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