{"id":1155273,"url":"https://alion.io/job/citi-client-financials-solutions-lead-department-apps-development-director","title":"Client Financials Solutions Lead Department, Apps Development - Director","company":{"id":7841,"name":"Citi","domain":"citi.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/citi","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":100,"open_postings":244,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0.074,"time_to_fill_p50_days":11,"computed_at":"2026-09-23T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Finance","role_family":"Finance","seniority":"head","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Tampa, United States","New York, United States","United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":170000,"max":300000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":300000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agile","optional":false},{"name":"Apache Iceberg","optional":false},{"name":"BigQuery","optional":false},{"name":"Druid","optional":false},{"name":"ETL/ELT","optional":false},{"name":"Google BigQuery","optional":false},{"name":"Hadoop","optional":false},{"name":"pySpark","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Spark","optional":false},{"name":"SQL","optional":false},{"name":"Superset","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-23T19:59:19Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-23","last_verified_at":"2026-09-23T22:01:45Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"Job Summary\nWe are seeking a Director-level Client Financials Solutions Lead to join our Apps Development team. This is not a program management role. The ideal candidate is a seasoned Technologist with decades of experience in building Apps and owning Apps delivery function for business functions. Directly and fully accountable for solution delivery. Ideal candidate should have created strategic technology architecture roadmaps aligned with business outcomes. You will define and execute technology roadmap for our Client Financials portfolio of data-heavy applications, providing strategic direction and critical input into technology decisions to ensure scalable buildout. This role involves building strong relationships with senior business and technology partners, driving agile execution of several Data engines, calculation engines and sophisticated multi-dimensional analytics, and will lead team of expert engineers to deliver with velocity and quality. Candidate should demonstrate exceptional technical acumen, a strong engineering background, and a proven ability to lead and provide technical direction to high-performing engineering teams. Ideal candidate is a proven Guru in Data Analytics and Data Engineering delivery at scale.\nRequired Qualifications\nIn-depth expertise with Ab Initio for enterprise-grade, high-volume ETL pipeline development and orchestration.\nDeep expertise in Apache Superset, Apache Druid, Apache Pinot and other OLAP, multidimensional Cube technologies, and analytical query optimization for complex financial reporting. Experience in constructing highly performant, scalable, bitemporal data models for data marts, attribution engines, and analytical processing layers.\nProficiency in Python-based data engineering, automation, pipeline orchestration, and tooling development. Proficiency in Apache Spark and PySpark for large-scale distributed data transformation, enrichment, and aggregation pipelines.\nStrong background in designing resilient, idempotent data integration patterns across heterogeneous source systems.\nExtensive hands-on experience with the Hadoop ecosystem (HDFS, YARN, MapReduce) for large-scale data processing.\nExpertise in Parquet and Iceberg formats. Expertise in Hive, Impala for high-throughput SQL-on-Hadoop analytical workloads.\nKnowledge of Google BigQuery for cloud-native analytical processing and ad-hoc financial analysis at scale.\nFunctional knowledge of Institutional businesses and banking rules related to capital and liquidity metrics, such as Risk Weighted Assets (RWA), Stress Capital Buffer, Resolution Liquidity Adequacy and Positioning, etc.\nDemonstrated ability to influence remote, senior stakeholders, including senior business executives.\nExperience in tracking and monitoring delivery, productivity, and organizational health metrics.\nExperience planning, forecasting, and managing a technology book of work at the team level, including project tracking and governance.\nDemonstrated systems thinking, critical analysis, and design thinking skills.\nAbility to work in a globally matrixed environment and partner with virtual teams and external partners.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExposure to working with AI-assisted software development models and experience implementing Gen AI use cases.\nExperience providing leadership for scaled agile release trains (SAFe).\nKey Responsibilities\nDefine and execute the multi-year technology roadmap and strategy for the Client Financials portfolio, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards, data governance, and business priorities.\nProvide ownership and tech direction for all Client Financials products, driving innovation and continuous improvement across the platform.\nImplement key Revenue and Expense attribution methodologies to standardize reporting of accurate client returns.\nBuild and sustain trusted, strategic relationships with senior business counterparts, finance leadership, and enterprise technology partners.\nDrive the execution of high-priority, cross-functional programs in partnership with business, infrastructure, security, data and architecture teams - ensuring delivery commitments are met with quality and predictability.\nHold peer leaders in testing, architecture, infrastructure, and other partner functions accountable for their contributions to shared delivery outcomes.\nOwn and oversee the technology book of work for the Client Financials portfolio, including planning, forecasting, and financial governance to ensure targets are met and investments are optimized.\nEstablish and maintain robust project tracking, reporting, and governance frameworks to provide transparency on delivery progress, risks, and resource utilization.\nLead and manage engineering teams to deliver business and technology value with a relentless focus on velocity, quality, and agility.\nChampion and institutionalize modern engineering practices including Scaled Agile (SAFe), DevOps, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and end-to-end automation.\nEvangelize / introduce new technologies (including AI) to business partners that offer high-performance with low technology footprint.\n------------------------------------------------------\nJob Family Group:\nTechnology------------------------------------------------------\nJob Family:\nApplications Development------------------------------------------------------\nTime Type:\nFull time------------------------------------------------------\nPrimary Location:\nTampa Florida United States------------------------------------------------------\nPrimary Location Full Time Salary Range:\n$170,000.00 - $300,000.00In addition to salary, Citi’s offerings may also include, for eligible employees, discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards. Citi offers competitive employee benefits, including: medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs. Citi also offers 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 citibenefits.com. Available offerings may vary by jurisdiction, job level, and date of hire.\n------------------------------------------------------\nMost Relevant Skills\nPlease see the requirements listed above.------------------------------------------------------\nOther Relevant Skills\nFor complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.------------------------------------------------------\nAnticipated Posting Close Date:\nSep 30, 2026------------------------------------------------------\nAutomated Processing and AI\nWe use automated processing, including artificial intelligence, for our legitimate business interests (or our reasonable and appropriate business purposes) to identify and align the candidate's skills and abilities with a specific job opening. Additionally, if you so choose, or consent, we can match your skills and abilities to other suitable roles at Citi.\nImportantly, all our hiring processes and decisions, including determining your suitability for a role, are conducted, checked, and decided by individuals. Our automated processing and AI do not involve relying on automatic or autonomous decision-making. Please refer to any Jurisdictional Considerations, with specific provisions for your country (where relevant) for further details.\nIllinois residents - AI Notice and Right\n------------------------------------------------------\nCiti is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law.\nIf you are a person with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to use our search tools and/or apply for a career opportunity review Accessibility at Citi.\nView Citi’s EEO Policy Statement and the Know Your Rights poster.","description_format":"text","description_chars":8016,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Wellness"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Wealth Management","Lending","Payments","Capital Markets"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-23T19:59:19Z"}],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":11,"reasons":["conf:0","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-09-23T22:32:58Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":300000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/citi-client-financials-solutions-lead-department-apps-development-director","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/citi-client-financials-solutions-lead-department-apps-development-director.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-23T22:32:58Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers"}}