Architecture Lead Analyst

Citibank, N.A. seeks an Architecture Lead Analyst for its Irving, Texas location. A telecommuting/hybrid work schedule may be permitted within a commutable distance from the worksite, in accordance with Citi policies and protocols.

• Develop architecture, strategy, planning, and software solutions on an enterprise level.
• Document technical design describing structure, characteristics, behavior, and other aspects of software to project stakeholders.
• Ensure solution development adheres to agreed design.
• Assess proposed designs for compliance with enterprise application, information, and security standards.
• Recommend and guide implementation of common patterns, platforms, and tools to support capabilities such as Single Sign-On (SSO) and entitlement management for employee access to external web portals.
• Design solution and architecture for digital applications taking into account its impact across various lines of businesses.
• Provide architectural vision for all IT systems, including those that support Internet applications, ensuring that architecture conforms to enterprise blueprints.
• Analyze existing services with internal processes related to customer journeys—including loan enrollments and abandonments, customer profile updates or changes, login behavior, notifications and alerts, and demographic updates.
• Analyze the business problem to define approved solutions, and resolve issues for complex situations.
• Maintain continuous awareness of business, technical, and infrastructure software issues, and support the development of creative solutions.
• Provide end-to-end results from the architected solutions including budgeting and formulation policy.
• Provide future state technology strategies to maintain IT systems security and ensure architecture standards are up to date.

• Requires a Bachelor’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Software Engineering, Computer Applications, or related field and 5 years of progressively responsible, post-baccalaureate experience as an Applications Development Tech Lead Analyst, Architecture Lead Analyst, Computer Systems Analyst, or related position involving complex legacy and next generation IT architecture projects in a financial industry.
• 5 years of experience must include: developing frameworks to automate business processes and integration patterns; a comprehensive tech stack for building microservices, advanced networking, algorithms and data structures; coding secure and scalable distributed applications to run on platforms that include on-premises, Open Shift, Kubernetes and Cloud Foundry; evaluating and determining appropriate technology stack for solutions;
  Java (Spring Framework), JS (Angular, Node.js), transfer protocols (HTTPS, SOAP, JMS, etc.) and data formats (JSON, XML, Avro, YAML, etc.); conducting systematic evaluations of code to ensure quality, maintainability, and adherence to best practices and policies; authentication and authorization knowledge (OAuth2, JWT, Akamai, Data Power) to ensure secure connections and proper access levels of data within internal and external services;
  
  reviewing functional and end-to-end use cases, gathering performance metrics that include throughput, latency, mean time recovery of the application; middleware platforms (EMS, MQ, Solace and Confluent Kafka); relational and non-relational databases to determine the right fit based on the functional and non-functional requirements.
• At least 4 years of experience must include:
  Python.

Irving, Texas, United States

Wage Range: $176,600 to $183,000

Citi offers competitive employee benefits, including medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; wellness programs; 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

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Mar 26, 2026

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