Technical Lead - Securities Financial Accounting, Senior Vice President

Citigroup Inc.; City Of London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent global financial institution in London seeks a Senior Ab Initio Engineer to lead data integration and optimize their ETL ecosystem. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in Ab Initio and expertise with cloud platforms. This role involves mentoring teams and ensuring compliance with data governance, making it vital for our operations and long-term technology strategies.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance starting at 27 days plus bank holidays

Discretionary annual performance-related bonus

Private medical insurance packages

Pension Plan

Paid Parental Leave

Learning and development resources

Qualifications

• Relevant experience designing and developing in Ab Initio.
• Proven expertise in Apache Spark, Kafka, Hadoop/HDFS, and more.
• End-to-end experience in large-scale modernization.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise-scale data integration initiatives.
• Ensure compliance with data governance standards.
• Mentor development teams in data engineering technologies.

Skills

Ab Initio expertise

Apache Spark

Kafka

Hadoop/HDFS

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Leadership skills

Communication skills

Job description

Overview

Are you looking for a career move that will put you at the heart of a global financial institution? Then bring your skills in analysis, problem solving and communication to Citi's Product Processor Team - GTPL (Global Trading Profit & Loss).

By joining Citi, you will become part of a global organisation whose mission is to serve as a trusted partner to our clients by responsibly providing financial services that enable growth and economic progress.

Team/Role Overview

The Global Trading Profit & Loss (GTPL) system is a cash securities product processing system, primarily designed to calculate, post, and manage the accounting balances & journals for Equity & Fixed income cash products. It performs calculations like realized and unrealized P&L, coupon accruals, and handle various accounting events. GTPL supports hedge accounting, manages intercompany debt, processes syndicate product accounting, and ultimately generates daily journal entries for cash securities that are posted to the firm's General Ledgers and reported to other critical Citi applications.

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Ab Initio Engineer to lead our enterprise-scale data integration and transformation initiatives. The ideal candidate will have deep Ab Initio expertise to oversee and optimize our existing ETL ecosystem, while also architecting and executing a strategic migration to modern, open-source, cloud-based technologies.

This role requires a blend of hands-on technical skills, enterprise architecture vision, and leadership to ensure smooth operations, cost optimization, and long-term technology sustainability.

What you'll do

• Be hands-on with coding and software design to ensure adherence to high quality standards and best practices of complex Ab Initio graphs, plans, and parallel ETL workflows
• Ensure compliance with enterprise data governance, metadata standards, and regulatory requirements
• Lead and mentor development teams in both Ab Initio and modern data engineering technologies
• Provide expertise in area of advanced knowledge of applications programming and plan assignments involving large budgets, cross functional project, or multiple projects
• Champion automation, CI/CD integration, and infrastructure-as-code for data pipelines
• Consult with end users to identify system function specifications and incorporate into overall system design
• Allocate work, and act as an advisor/coach developers, analysts, and new team members
• Influence and negotiate with senior leaders and communicate with external parties

What we'll need from you

• Relevant experience designing and developing in Ab Initio (GDE, Co>Op, Plans, DML, XFR, partitioning, continuous flows, testing framework, Graph Unit Tests)
• Proven expertise in Apache Spark, Kafka, Hadoop/HDFS, Hive/Impala, and distributed processing
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)
• End-to-end experience in planning and executing large-scale modernization or platform migrations
• Demonstrated experience in leading multi-disciplinary data engineering teams
• Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement, and executive presentation skills
• Strategic thinker with ability to balance short-term delivery and long-term modernization goal
• Familiarity with DevOps, CI/CD for data pipelines, and Infrastructure-as-Code

What we can offer you

• We work hard to have a positive financial and social impact on the communities we serve. In turn, we put our employees first and provide the best-in-class benefits they need to be well, live well and save well.
• Generous holiday allowance starting at 27 days plus bank holidays; increasing with tenure
• A discretionary annual performance related bonus
• Private medical insurance packages to suit your personal circumstances
• Employee Assistance Program
• Pension Plan
• Paid Parental Leave
• Special discounts for employees, family, and friends
• Access to an array of learning and development resources

Alongside 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.

Sounds like Citi has everything you need? Then apply to discover the true extent of your capabilities.

Job Family Group: Technology

Job Family: Applications Development

Time Type: Full time

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