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In this pivotal role, you will lead the technical design, architectural vision, and engineering delivery of Citi's next-generation Risk Management Platform.\nAs part of a globally distributed, high-performing engineering organization, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams, architects, product managers, and quantitative analysts across the globe. You will be instrumental in defining technical standards, leading high-impact architectural initiatives, and mentoring engineering talent across our diverse global teams.\nKey Responsibilities:\nArchitectural Leadership & System Design\nStrategic System Architecture: Analyze complex business workflows, enterprise systems, and industry standards to architect scalable, resilient, and high-throughput solutions for next-generation risk systems.\nStandards & Best Practices: Define, evolve, and implement engineering methodologies, coding standards, testing automation, and CI/CD best practices across the full software development lifecycle.\nDeep Technical Integration: Lead the technical integration of complex enterprise functions and platforms to accelerate product deployments and enhance operational capabilities.\nDomain Flow Mastery: Leverage deep technical expertise across end-to-end data pipelines, microservices, and system flows to drive technological transformation.\nTechnical Delivery & Execution\nHigh-Impact Project Planning: Direct and execute technical milestones for multi-million-dollar, cross-functional programs and multi-stream initiatives.\nEnd-to-End Collaboration: Consult closely with business stakeholders, quantitative risk managers, and operations users to translate functional specifications into robust technical architectures.\nCode Excellence: Maintain high standards of code quality, performance profiling, fault tolerance, and security across distributed application services.\nLeadership, Mentorship & Collaboration\nTeam Leadership & Coaching: Allocate engineering workloads, establish delivery milestones, and actively coach senior developers, engineers, and analysts.\nStakeholder Management: Influence and align architectural roadmaps with senior technology and business leadership, as well as external technology partners.\nGlobal Synergy: Foster a collaborative, inclusive engineering culture across globally dispersed teams in the Americas, EMEA, and APAC.\nGovernance, Risk & Controls\nSound Risk Management: Proactively assess and mitigate technical, operational, and regulatory risks in engineering decisions.\nCompliance & Transparency: Ensure all platforms strictly adhere to enterprise governance, data privacy policies, regulatory requirements, and security controls, escalating and resolving control issues promptly.\nQualifications & Competencies:\nExperience & Technical Mastery\nEducation: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related quantitative field (or equivalent practical experience).\nIndustry Experience: Extensive experience in software engineering and system architecture, with a demonstrated history of delivering mission-critical enterprise systems (Financial Services / Risk Technology experience is strongly preferred).\nCore Engineering: Advanced expertise in modern backend languages and frameworks (e.g., Java, Python, Go, or C++), distributed computing, concurrent systems, and event-driven architectures (e.g., Apache Kafka).\nCloud & Modern Infrastructure: Proven experience with cloud platforms, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes/OpenShift), API gateways, and distributed caching technologies.\nData Architecture: Strong proficiency with relational and distributed database technologies, high-volume data processing pipelines, and analytical engines.\nLeadership & Soft Skills\nInfluential Communication: Exceptional communication, stakeholder management, and negotiation skills with both technical teams and senior business leaders.\nMentorship: Proven track record of developing engineering talent and leading cross-functional delivery streams.\nAnalytical Problem Solving: Superior capability to deconstruct ambiguous, complex business challenges into structured, elegant technical designs.\nWhat we can offer you:\nBy joining Citi Solutions Center Poland, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (currently up to 2 days working at home per week), but also (potentially, subject to final offer) receive a competitive base salary and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits which can include:\nEmployer paid Defined Contribution Pension Plan contribution of 6% of employee’s pensionable earnings (PPE Program)\nEmployer paid Private Medical Care Package for employees and Private Medical Care Packages for certain family members available at preferential rates\nEmployer paid Life Insurance Program for employees and Life Insurance for certain family members available at preferential rates\nEmployee Assistance Program financed by Employer\nPaid Parental Leave Program (maternity and paternity leave; statutory and 2 weeks additional paid paternity leave)\nSport Card for employees subsidized via Social Benefits Fund and Sport Cards for certain family members available at preferential rates\nAdditional benefits from Company’s Social Benefit Fund, in particular: Holidays Allowance, support for sport and cultural activities, team building events.\nAdditional day off for volunteering\nCafeteria/ flex benefit - a company benefits system which enables employees to select and purchase benefits offered by a provider and available for employees on the platform.\nOpportunity to receive an annual discretionary incentive award\nSpecial offers and discounts for employees\nCopy and paste the URL below into a new tab on your web browser to view the Remuneration Regulations extract: https://tbcdn.talentbrew.com/company/287/cms/v3/docs/policies/RemunerationRegulations-KeyProvisions-CitibankEurope_plc_05012025_A.pdf\nAlongside these benefits Citi is committed to ensuring our workplace is where everyone feels comfortable coming to work as their whole self every day. We want the best talent around the world to be energized to join us, motivated to stay, and empowered to thrive.\nSounds like Citi has everything you need? Then apply to discover the true extent of your capabilities.\n#LI-KK5\nThis job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. 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