Technical Lead - Securities Financial Accounting, Senior Vice President

Citigroup Inc.; London; Hybrid; GBP 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A global financial institution is seeking a Senior Ab Initio Engineer in London to lead data integration initiatives. This role blends technical skills and leadership, optimizing ETL processes and migrating to modern technologies. Offering competitive salary, generous holiday allowance, and a hybrid working model, it's an opportunity to drive significant impact in a dynamic environment.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Discretionary annual performance related bonus

Private medical insurance

Pension Plan

Paid Parental Leave

Qualifications

• Relevant experience designing and developing in Ab Initio.
• Proven expertise in large-scale modernization or platform migrations.
• Experience leading data engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise-scale data integration and transformation initiatives.
• Ensure compliance with data governance and regulatory requirements.
• Champion automation and infrastructure-as-code for data pipelines.

Skills

Ab Initio expertise

Apache Spark

Kafka

Hadoop/HDFS

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

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.

By joining Citi London, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), but also receive a competitive base salary (which is annually reviewed), and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits such as:

• 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.

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Job Family Group: Technology

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Job Family: Applications Development

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Time Type: Full time

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Most Relevant Skills

Please see the requirements listed above.

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Other Relevant Skills

For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

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