Product Developer, Senior Vice President

Citi; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 202,000 - 283,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days annual leave

Discretionary bonus

Private Medical Care & Life Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Pension Plan

Paid Parental Leave

Employee discounts

Learning & development resources

Job summary

Citi is seeking a Platform Lead to oversee the Equity Derivatives Regulatory Reporting Platform in a hybrid London-based role. You will drive platform enhancements, mitigate compliance risks, and work with business, legal, technology, and Reg Ops teams to deliver robust reporting solutions protecting the firm's franchise and ensuring transaction transparency.

The role requires deep derivatives experience, strategic leadership, and the ability to manage cross-functional stakeholders in a global

Qualifications

• Excellent presentation and communication skills to convey complex financial concepts to internal stakeholders.
• Strong collaborative mindset across Risk, Technology, Control teams.
• Deep experience with vanilla and exotic derivatives across asset classes.

Responsibilities

• Resource Allocation: strategically allocate tech resources and prioritize tasks to meet deadlines.
• Derivative Expert: guide tech and operations in reporting objectives for desk products.
• Regulatory awareness: stay updated on evolving requirements with legal/compliance teams.
• Data quality: inspect trade data and identify suspicious patterns with monitoring partners.
• Culture: foster a collaborative, high-performing team environment.
• Liaison: translate between technology teams and customer or sales inquiries.
• Progress reporting: provide clear progress updates with milestones and risks.

Skills

Communication skills

Collaboration

Derivatives domain expertise

Job description

Product Developer, Senior Vice President

London, England, United Kingdom

Job Type:

Hybrid

Discover your future at Citi

Working at Citi is far more than just a job. A career with us means joining a team of approximately 219,000 dedicated people from around the globe. At Citi, you’ll have the opportunity to grow your career, give back to your community and make a real impact.

Job Overview

Introduction to Citi Markets

At Citi Markets, we win together. In a rapidly changing world, our shared vision gives us the clarity, agility and global perspectives we need to shape the future. That's why collaboration plays a central role in how we deliver for clients, develop our people, and grow our business. Our operation is uniquely global. Our client list is remarkably varied. Our product range is incredibly broad. But we're not the finished article. We have big ambitions for the future and all the resources we need to reach them, including some of the smartest people in the industry.

Citi's Markets business is one of the world's leading franchises in fixed income, currencies, commodities, equities, and prime finance. We connect institutional clients to deep liquidity, sophisticated risk management solutions, and market-leading execution capabilities across developed and emerging markets. Our equities platform spans cash equities, equity derivatives, convertibles, ETFs, and prime financing, supported by a global network of experienced traders, sales professionals, and research analysts.

Role/Team Overview

Seeking a highly experienced and compliance-focused Platform Lead to oversee and drive the development of our Equity Derivatives Regulatory Reporting Platform. This critical role will ensure our business remain fully compliant with evolving global and regional regulatory mandates while maintaining the highest standards of data integrity and reporting accuracy.

The candidate will be responsible for leading strategic platform enhancements, mitigating compliance risks, and collaborating with business, legal, technology and Reg Ops stakeholders to deliver robust, scalable reporting solutions that protect the firm's franchise and support transaction transparency.

What you'll do

• Resource Allocation: Strategically allocate tech resources and prioritize pipeline tasks to consistently meet tight project deadlines.
• Derivative Expert: Having a strong experience in the different products traded on the desk and their characteristics in order to be able to direct technology and operations team in meeting the reporting objective.
• Keep abreast of evolving regulatory requirement with legal and compliance team to better plan and allocate resources to meet them.
• Inspect trade data and be able to identify suspicious patterns, work with monitoring team to ensure consistent data quality,
• Culture Development: Foster a collaborative, positive, and high-performing team environment.
• Key Liaison: Act as the primary interface and translator between the technology team and any customer or sales enquiry in matching trades.
• Progress Reporting: Deliver clear, transparent, and regular progress reports, highlighting milestones, risks, and successes to business leadership.

What we need from you

• Communication: Excellent presentation and communication skills to convey complex financial concepts to internal stakeholders.
• Collaboration: A strong collaborative mindset with the ability to work effectively across diverse teams (Risk, Technology, Control).
• Domain Expertise: Deep experience and understanding of both vanilla and exotic derivatives across all asset classes.

What Citi Can Offer You

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:

• 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• A discretional annual performance related bonus
• Private Medical Care & Life Insurance
• 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. If you are actively working with clients, have a passion for relationships and want to be part of a successful global franchise – then apply today.

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

Candidates applying for this role must be aware that it is a Certified Role, subject to the FCA and PRA Certification Regime.

The Certification Regime is one element of the Individual Accountability Regime which came into effect on 7 March 2016.

Under the Certification Regime, Citi UK regulated entities (Citi entities) must ensure that employees working in certain roles categorised as specified significant harm functions (Certified Roles) are assessed as fit and proper to carry out their role.

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• Honesty, integrity and reputation
• Financial soundness
• Competence and capability

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This assessment will be carried out through extensive interviews, self-disclosures, permitted criminal record checks, regulated reference checks, credit checks and other background screening checks.

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Job Family Group:

Product Management and Development

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Job Family:

Product Management

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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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