Finance Business Architect, Vice President

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.

Overview: Are you passionate about translating complex finance and technology challenges into clear, actionable architecture? We are building out a Business Architecture practice to guide transformational IT improvements supporting Citi's global Finance functions. The Business Architect (VP) will apply solid functional domain knowledge and architecture experience to help define and evolve Citi's Finance functional architecture, contributing to current-state documentation and future-state design with a growing focus on AI and automation..

Assists in defining strategic direction and setting business architecture standards covering Enterprise Business Architecture & Transformation applications across Citi businesses, products, functions and locations Participates in assessing and incorporating ongoing business and regulatory needs into the Enterprise Business Architecture & Transformation business architecture Collaborate with Finance and Shared Services to document current and future-state business architectures, anchored to business processes and functions Work alongside data architects to map data dependencies and support alignment of data architecture — including Finance-wide data vision, governance, and platform direction — with business architecture objectives Engage technical partners to align investments to target state architecture, flagging material deviations as appropriate Contribute to business architecture principles supporting straight-through processing and the timeliness, completeness, and accuracy of financial reporting Apply and promote Citi architecture principles, providing guidance to engineering teams on practical application Contribute to the Finance Tech Design Authority and support Permit to Design / Permit to Build governance processes Assist in identifying and evaluating opportunities to embed AI, ML, and GenAI within Finance processes, supporting appropriate governance frameworks Contribute to capability mapping, maturity assessments, and the centralized architecture knowledge repository Support continuous improvement of the business architecture discipline through adoption of best