Global Design & Construction Program Lead - Senior Vice President

Global Design & Construction Program Lead - Senior Vice President is a member of the Senior global technical authority for Critical Facilities engineering — owning standards, governing capital projects, and ensuring infrastructure resilience across Citi's worldwide portfolio.

• Own and continuously improve Citi's Technology Facilities Design and Construction Technical Requirements across mechanical, electrical, plumbing, structural, civil, life-safety, utility, and building automation systems.
• Define resilience, redundancy, scalability, and maintainability requirements aligned to Facility Risk Categories; translate building-criticality classifications into engineering solutions.
• Monitor emerging technologies and regulatory developments, incorporating relevant updates into Citi's standards.

• Lead global technical peer reviews for capital projects, infrastructure upgrades, and live-environment modifications.
• Review and approve critical-facility design strategies: power/cooling topology, utility diversity, fire protection, leak detection, fuel systems, and future capacity.
• Establish stage-gate deliverables from concept through operational handover; elevate designs or test results presenting unacceptable residual risk.

• Govern formal technical exceptions and Requests for Deviation via the Tech Face process, evaluating rationale, compensating controls, and residual risks.
• Maintain records of technical decisions and approved exceptions; use trends and incidents to continuously strengthen standards.

• Define and govern Citi's Critical Facilities commissioning framework across factory testing, functional performance testing, integrated systems testing, failure-scenario validation, and operational handover.
• Set acceptance criteria, oversee resolution of commissioning deficiencies, and ensure documentation is transferred to the operating organization.

• Lead engineering components of Citi's Global Utilities Program (electrical power, water, natural gas) — including grid/substation strategy, supply diversity, and utility interconnections.
• Assess regional grid constraints and future load requirements; partner with Sustainability, Procurement, and Energy Management on renewables, demand management, and decarbonization.

• Consolidate demand forecasts for major long-lead equipment (critical power, standby generation, cooling, electrical distribution); define standardized technical requirements to reduce portfolio variation.
• Assess supply-chain risks, equipment availability, and obsolescence; support Procurement in technical evaluation of strategic sourcing and framework agreements.

• Partner with the BMS/BAS Architect to translate approved controls architecture, monitoring, and cybersecurity requirements into project specifications and commissioning plans.
• Govern project-level deployment of BMS, BAS, and EPMS; review proposed departures from controls standards.
• (BMS/BAS Architect retains ownership of enterprise controls architecture and platforms; this role owns engineering integration, deployment, and commissioning.)

• Develop engineering standards for high-density computing, liquid cooling, and evolving technology loads; integrate energy efficiency, water conservation, and Net Zero interventions into designs.
• Contribute Critical Facilities content to Citi's Global Workplace Design Guidelines and broader sustainability frameworks.

• Partner with the Global O&M Engineering Lead to provide lifecycle engineering governance from design through live operation; incorporate commissioning findings, incidents, and root-cause analyses into future standards.
• Collaborate across Citi Technology Infrastructure, Security & Investigative Services, Sustainability, Procurement, Asset Management, and external partners; provide structured knowledge transfer and training.

• 10 years experience overseeing multidisciplinary engineering programs across a large, geographically diverse portfolio.
• Demonstrated background in data centers, critical technology environments, large financial institutions, or hyperscale/mission-critical facilities.
• Proven record authoring and governing global engineering…