Futures Clearing Development Manager, Senior 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. Our core activities are safeguarding assets, lending money, making payments and accessing the capital markets on behalf of our clients.

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Citi Futures and OTC Clearing Technology supports a rapidly growing business with a high degree of change. The Futures Core Services & Clearing Tech program is intended to build the core backbone for the Futures Front-Office technology, covering Trade Capture, Regulatory reporting, Client feeds, Trade STP (e.g. trade flow management, allocations, booking), connectivity to 21 Clearing House globally and build static- and semi-static reference data for the Futures business, as well as the MIS/CRM capabilities needed to run the business. In the past year, the clearing platform gained a top spot in the industry.

Are you passionate about mentoring and leadership?

Do you have demonstrated experience managing successful applications?

Are you interested in shaping your organization?

The Clearing Dev Manager/Product Owner will be responsible for Futures Clearing platform and manage (or matrix manage) a team of 10-15 engineers in New Jersey, Pune and Shanghai.

The candidate will be responsible for collaborating with senior technology leaders as well as the Futures Product Development group and associated business (Executions, Middle Office, Operations, In-business risk, etc.) to produce and implement parts of the Futures technical strategy, covering aspects such as system implementation, data coverage/gap analyses, market based STP coverage, interface design with external teams and non-functional testing/optimization as well as running bespoke projects for complex client demands. They will be required to identify opportunities and leading and driving a continuous process improvement and workflow improvements for the clearing platform.

Areas of activity will include:

• Development and maintenance of Clearing Workflows, Connectivity to Clearing houses and Trade STP

• Manage and support high visibility integration projects with Execution Systems and Back-office system

• Requirements analysis, prioritization and roadmap definitions of above and working closely with other Dev Managers Futures Technology team.

• Full project management and delivery responsibility for all of the above including post production support

• Liaise with Primary Support staff to ensure successful operation of functionality post release

• Ownership of relationships with key vendors and internal teams supplying some of the technology/solutions for Futures

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  Low Latency platform management experience
• Demonstrated leadership experience in Futures Technology/clearing platform software
• A proven track record of business analysis/project management experience
• A team player attitude
• A strong desire to learn
• Practical experience in analysis, design and project managing end to end delivery
• Strong analytical/problem solving skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills to manage stakeholder expectations
• Flexibility to work with a global team, across geographies and time zones
• Understanding of the SDLC
• Familiarity with Agile, Scrum or Waterfall methodology

• OTC product knowledge, Any business analysis or project management experience in Clearing will be a bonus
• PMP/Formal PM training will be a plus