Cards Tech Strategy & Modernization SVP

Citi; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 156,000 - 234,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental & vision coverage

401(k)

Wellness programs

Job summary

Citi’s US Consumer Cards Technology Strategy team leads strategic initiatives and modernization programs for credit card applications and platforms in Irving, TX. This role combines payments engineering architecture, business case modeling, and executive storytelling to drive the long-term technology vision.

The leader will define multi-year roadmaps, establish metrics, and ensure alignment with business objectives, while partnering with Architecture, Cards Business, and Finance to optimize

Qualifications

• Experience in credit card application and platform modernization programs required
• Experience leading technology strategy development, annual strategy refreshes, and multi-pillar strategic initiatives
• 10+ years of management consulting, technology, and/or strategy & ops experience preferred
• Proven track record establishing and advancing large-scale modernization programs, milestones, and governance metrics
• Strong, concise storytelling and executive presentation skills
• Quantitative & analytic fluency, including TCO and business case modeling
• Uses AI to accelerate workflows and sharpen frameworks

Responsibilities

• Lead and advance all pillars of the USCC Technology Strategy, driving strategic alignment between architectural roadmaps and commercial business objectives.
• Lead the annual refresh of the USCC Technology Strategy to reflect evolving business priorities, emerging technologies, and architectural standards.
• Formulate the long-term vision, multi-year strategic roadmap, and transition architecture to modernize legacy credit card applications and platforms to an event-driven, cloud-native target state.
• Establish, govern, and advance the modernization program, defining and managing critical delivery milestones, transition phases, and success metrics.
• Define modernization integration blueprints with upstream and downstream Citi systems (Customer Identity, Fraud, Rewards/ThankYou, Collections, Risk Engines).
• Partner with Architecture team to design coexistence and migration strategies to ensure continuous, high-performance transaction processing across high-volume card events.
• Quantify the economics of legacy platform cost reduction and infrastructure optimization versus modern cloud compute unit costs, evaluating transition dual-run run-rate costs and long-term hosting cost trajectories.
• Quantify technical non-financial benefits and engineering velocity metrics, such as deployment frequency gains, MTTR reductions, cloud elasticity savings, automated testing efficiency, and technical debt risk reduction.
• Translate intricate technical architectures and economic modeling outputs into concise, visually compelling executive presentations.
• Establish quantitative benefit-realization frameworks, value-tracking scorecards, and engineering KPIs to track post-investment ROI and operational efficiencies against approved baseline plans.
• Partner with Cards Business heads, Product Management, Operations, and Finance to ensure strategic alignment across all initiatives.
• Serve as a senior technical authority and trusted advisor on modern payments architecture across the Cards Technology organization.
• Embody Citi’s Leadership Principles: We Take Ownership, We Deliver with Pride, and We Succeed Together.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Executive storytelling

Quantitative modeling

Cloud-native architecture

Payments engineering

Cost optimization (TCO)

Program governance

Stakeholder alignment

Data-driven decision making

AI acceleration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Citi’s US Consumer Cards Technology Strategy team leads strategic initiatives and modernization programs for credit card applications and platforms in Irving, TX. This role combines payments engineering architecture, business case modeling, and executive storytelling to drive the long-term technology vision.

The leader will define multi-year roadmaps, establish metrics, and ensure alignment with business objectives, while partnering with Architecture, Cards Business, and Finance to optimize