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This is a senior, highly visible leadership role requiring a strategic operator who can partner closely with existing Business, Product and Engineering Heads while independently owning a wide scope of business-aligned deliverables.\nThe successful candidate will be translating business strategy into an executable technology roadmap, and ensuring that engineering delivery is tightly aligned to the needs of Digital Asset product and business stakeholders across Investor and Issuer Services, as well as other emerging Digital Assets/DLT use cases.\nKey Responsibilities\nStrategic Leadership\nDefine and own the technology strategy and roadmap for Digital Assets use cases including Investor Services, Issuer Services, and adjacent/emerging digital asset propositions across Citi Lines of Business.\nPartner with the Digital Assets Technology Head to shape the broader DA technology platform vision, investment priorities, and multi-year platform strategy.\nRepresent Technology in senior business and product forums, acting as a trusted advisor on technical feasibility, architecture direction, and delivery trade-offs.\nCross-Functional Partnership\nWork in close lock-step with existing Engineering Heads to ensure coherent architecture, shared platform capabilities, and consistent engineering standards across the DA technology estate.\nBuild strong relationships with Product, Operations, Risk, Compliance, and Legal stakeholders to ensure technology solutions meet regulatory, control, and business requirements specific to digital assets (e.g., tokenization, custody, settlement, markets, wealth).\nAct as the primary technology point of contact for Investor and Issuer Services business lines.\nDelivery Management\nOwn end-to-end delivery accountability for a broad portfolio of DA initiatives, ensuring on-time, high-quality, and compliant delivery.\nEstablish and drive governance, prioritization, and tracking mechanisms across multiple concurrent workstreams.\nProactively identify, escalate, and manage risks, dependencies, and blockers across the program portfolio.\nPeople & Organizational Leadership\nBuild, mentor, and lead a high-performing team (direct and matrixed) of engineering and delivery professionals.\nFoster a culture of engineering excellence, innovation, and accountability.\nSupport talent development, succession planning, and organizational design as the DA technology function scales.\nGovernance, Risk & Controls\nEnsure all technology solutions adhere to Citi's architecture, security, resiliency, and regulatory standards.\nPartner with Risk and Compliance teams to navigate the evolving regulatory landscape for digital assets.\nChampion sound engineering and operational risk practices across the DA technology portfolio.\nQualifications:\n15+ years of experience in the software industry, including leadership roles\n12+ years of progressive technology leadership experience within financial services, including significant experience in capital markets, custody, securities services, or digital assets.\n10+ years proven experience leading large, complex, multi-workstream technology portfolios in a global, matrixed organization.\n5+ years’ experience and familiarity with digital asset / blockchain / distributed ledger technology concepts (tokenization, digital custody, smart contracts, DLT settlement) highly desirable.\nDirect experience with Investor Services and/or Issuer Services business domains (custody, fund administration, asset servicing, corporate actions, issuance platforms) strongly preferred.\nDemonstrated track record of partnering with peer Engineering leadership to deliver shared platform outcomes.\nStrong people leadership experience, including building and scaling technology teams.\nExcellent executive communication and stakeholder management skills, with experience presenting to senior management and regulators.\nWorking knowledge of regulatory and control frameworks relevant to financial services technology.\nPreferred Skills\nHands-on technical background (architecture, cloud, distributed systems) sufficient to engage credibly with engineering teams.\nExperience with emerging digital asset infrastructure providers, custodians, or DLT platforms.\nExperience operating in highly regulated, control-sensitive environments.\nEducation:\nBachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent work experience\n------------------------------------------------------\nJob Family Group:\nTechnology------------------------------------------------------\nJob Family:\nApplications Development------------------------------------------------------\nTime Type:\nFull time------------------------------------------------------\nPrimary Location:\nNew York New York 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\nBlockchain Technology, Digital Assets, Information Technology (IT), Leadership.------------------------------------------------------\nAnticipated Posting Close Date:\nOct 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. 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