Platform Product Architect - Cloud Data Platform (Hybrid)

Citigroup; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 130,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Generous holiday plus bank holidays

Performance bonus

Private medical insurance

Pension plan

Job summary

Citigroup in Dublin seeks a Product Architect to lead the MRD Common Platform Transformation. You will manage a small team of senior Product Architects and drive cloud-first data ingestion, distribution, and access strategies across enterprise data domains.

Responsibilities include setting a 3-5 year architectural roadmap, partnering with global stakeholders, and delivering agile, incremental deployments with strong governance and security compliance.

Qualifications

• AWS Solutions Architect Professional certification.
• Experience delivering multi-year programs across distributed teams.
• 15+ years in enterprise data architecture or software engineering, 8-10+ years leading teams.
• Deep understanding of modern engineering patterns (Active-Active, Blue-Green, Serverless).

Responsibilities

• Define and execute a 3-5 year product architectural roadmap for the MRD Common Platform.
• Lead design of high-performance data ingestion, distribution, and access capabilities using Databricks.
• Direct and mentor a high-performing team of senior Product Architects.
• Negotiate architectural decisions with senior stakeholders globally and align with business priorities.
• Provide architectural governance for multi-year programs with budgets over $20MM.
• Ensure risk, security and regulatory compliance across designs.
• Collaborate with AWS/Databricks partners to drive platform innovation and cost-efficiency.
• Ensure zero-downtime operations through resilient design patterns.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Senior-level negotiation

Strategic leadership

People leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree preferred

Tools

AWS

Databricks

Serverless

Job description

Citigroup in Dublin seeks a Product Architect to lead the MRD Common Platform Transformation. You will manage a small team of senior Product Architects and drive cloud-first data ingestion, distribution, and access strategies across enterprise data domains.

Responsibilities include setting a 3-5 year architectural roadmap, partnering with global stakeholders, and delivering agile, incremental deployments with strong governance and security compliance.