Finance Tech Architect - AI Transformation Leader

Citi; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental & vision coverage

401(k)

Job summary

Citi in New York seeks a Business Architect to translate Finance challenges into clear architecture and guide transformational IT improvements across global Finance functions.

The role focuses on defining current and future-state architectures, collaborating with Finance, ERP teams, and data partners, and exploring AI-enabled finance solutions while ensuring governance and compliance.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in engineering or architecture for Finance or related business functions.
• Experience in cross-functional business process improvement and enterprise architecture change.
• Strong communication skills enabling engagement up to senior management level.

Responsibilities

• Define strategic direction and set Enterprise Business Architecture standards covering Enterprise Business Architecture & Transformation applications across Citi businesses, products, functions and locations
• Participates in assessing and incorporating ongoing business and regulatory needs into the Enterprise Business Architecture & Transformation business architecture
• Collaborate with Finance and Shared Services to document current and future-state business architectures, anchored to business processes and functions
• Work alongside data architects to map data dependencies and support alignment of data architecture with business architecture objectives
• Engage technical partners to align investments to target state architecture, flagging material deviations as appropriate
• Contribute to business architecture principles supporting straight-through processing and the timeliness, completeness, and accuracy of financial reporting
• Apply and promote Citi architecture principles, providing guidance to engineering teams on practical application
• Contribute to the Finance Tech Design Authority and support governance processes
• Assist in identifying and evaluating opportunities to embed AI, ML, and GenAI within Finance processes, supporting governance frameworks
• Contribute to capability mapping, maturity assessments, and the centralized architecture knowledge repository
• Support continuous improvement of the business architecture discipline through tooling and training
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, with emphasis on compliance and ethical conduct.

Skills

Communication skills

AI/ML knowledge

GenAI familiarity

Prompt engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

SAP S/4HANA

Oracle Financials

Anaplan

OneStream

Job description

Citi in New York seeks a Business Architect to translate Finance challenges into clear architecture and guide transformational IT improvements across global Finance functions.

The role focuses on defining current and future-state architectures, collaborating with Finance, ERP teams, and data partners, and exploring AI-enabled finance solutions while ensuring governance and compliance.