Infrastructure Architect Details

Infrastructure Architect

Citi - New York, NY

Employment Type : Full-Time

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. We keep the bank safe and provide the technical tools our workers need to be successful. We design our digital architecture and ensure our platforms provide a first-class customer experience. Our operations teams manage risk, resources, and program management. We focus on enterprise resiliency and business continuity. We develop, coordinate, and execute strategic operational plans. Essentially, Enterprise Operations & Technology re-engineers client and partner processes to deliver excellence through secure, reliable, and controlled services.

Citi Technology Infrastructure provides the critical technical foundation for Citi’s operations and is responsible for delivering IT solutions, scalable infrastructure services, and secure capabilities while creating a trusted customer experience and enabling Citi’s workforce to be the best for our clients. Making the bank simpler, greener, and better connected while powering it with trusted, well-secured platforms and data, and automating policy enforcement through code are all at the heart of our refreshed global strategy. Data Quality, Simplification, Environmental Stability, Automation, and Service Excellence are the key pillars and priorities on our strategic journey.

The Chief Technology Office plays a critical role in fulfilling the firm’s commitment to safety and soundness by ensuring Citi delivers efficient and high-quality solutions and technologies, coordinating foundational macro technology strategies, ensuring Citi’s readiness to safely leverage new technologies, and making Citi a competitive destination for the best technical talent.

Our commitment to diversity includes a workforce that represents the clients we serve globally 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.

The Infrastructure Architect will be part of a team whose role is the design and modification of complex, multi-system environments. In this role, you will identify and analyze business requirements to integrate hardware, storage, operating systems, and connectivity solutions. You will also create and maintain standards and patterns development used within the Consumer infrastructure technology space. You will partner with business leaders, developers, engineers, and production support teams to provide design guidelines, impart knowledge on technical trends and serve as a Subject Matter Expert on systems configuration and integration, capacity planning, performance analysis and optimization.

Core Role Competencies

• Infrastructure Architecture & Strategy:
• Work with senior technologists to influence and shape the strategic infrastructure target state
• Help define and implement infrastructure standards• Influence and educate engineers on standards, processes and tools Disaster Recovery Strategy:
• Partner with the application owners to develop and update comprehensive DR strategy for the line of businesses across the global enterprise
• Work with Production teams to develop specific Disaster Recovery plans that meet the overall strategy
• Recommend specific tools strategies, and solutions for DR solutions Incident Consulting:
• Provide technical assistance with the most challenging issues that span multiple systems, or show recurring trends that have not been successfully resolved
• Communication:
• Strong and effective communication skills to guide meetings, provide direction, conduct presentations, and influence change, and enforcing enterprise directives with compliant and non-compliant teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
• Enterprise Architecture and Solution Engineering mindset or thought leadership required
• Experience with would typically commensurate with 3 years of Infrastructure Architecture and/or Solutions experience
• Strong Infrastructure understanding of Virtual machines, Containers, Database clusters, Application clusters and distributed systems
• Extensive experience in HA/DR deployment strategies of IBM WebSphere, Oracle WebLogic, and Apache Tomcat or JBOSS
• A good understanding of HA database architecture such as; Sql Server Always On, Oracle RAC, and MongoDB sharing across distributed environments and multiple data centers
• Knowledge of mainframe modernization and migration of data from Tandem/Unisys to Oracle using Data Bridge or other technologies.
• Working experience with database replication technologies like Golden Gate, SSIS, or Ab Initio.
• Experience with messaging platforms like WebSphere MQ, Solace, and Tibco EMS
• Understanding of BIG data and Integration technologies like Kafka and Hadoop
• Strong and dedicated documentation skills to articulate the architecture design and solution using Microsoft Visio and Word

About Citi

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.

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