Sr. Low Latency Enterprise Solutions Architect - VP

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. We'll enable growth and progress together.

• Trusted Advisor:
  Supporting CTI businesses and Markets Technology as a trusted advisor for all low-latency network solution and engineering tasks.
• Stakeholder
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Engage in routine discussions with key stakeholders (Network Engineering, Systems Administrators, Core Infrastructure Build, Application Owners, Business Sponsors) regarding application performance and connectivity requirements.
• Enterprise Architecture Alignment:
  Collaborate with Application Architects, Electronic Trading Developers, Dev Ops, Market Data, and Telecommunications teams to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture standards and low-latency best practices.
• Design Artifacts & Documentation:
  Ability to take all elements of a solution design and capture them in both narrative form and detailed architectural diagram form (Visio) in such a way that both technical and business stakeholders can understand.
• Resiliency & Performance Sizing:
  Must grasp the technical aspects of an application's RTO / RPO, failover mechanisms, and zero-packet-drop high availability when designing an infrastructure solution.
• Technology & Hardware Evaluation:
  Evaluate emerging low-latency networking technologies, Layer 1 switching fabrics, FPGA/SmartNIC acceleration, kernel bypass technologies, and optical transport services to continuously improve network architecture.
• Subject Matter Expert (SME):
  Serve as the subject matter expert (SME) for all low-latency network technologies, cut-through switching architectures, Multicast routing (PIM-SM, PIM-SSM, IGMP), Precision Time Protocol (PTP IEEE 1588v2), and Direct Market Access (DMA) integration patterns.
• Security & Governance:
  Define and enforce network security, micro-segmentation, low-latency encryption (MACsec), audit compliance, and disaster recovery strategies across trading and colocation fabrics.
• Mentorship:
  Mentor and guide junior architects and network engineers in best practices surrounding network automation, latency monitoring, and infrastructure governance.
• Cloud Transformation:
  Support the organization's cloud and hybrid connectivity initiatives with a strong understanding of low-latency