Senior VP, Global Critical Facilities Design & Construction

Citigroup Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 164,000 - 245,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Citigroup Inc. in New York seeks a Global Design & Construction Program Lead - Senior Vice President to serve as a global technical authority for Critical Facilities engineering, owning standards and guiding capital projects.

You will drive commissioning, governance, and sustainability initiatives across Citi's worldwide portfolio, ensuring resilience and regulatory alignment while leading multi-disciplinary reviews and stakeholder collaboration.

Qualifications

• 10 years experience overseeing multidisciplinary engineering programs across a large, geographically diverse portfolio.
• Demonstrated background in data centers, critical technology environments, large financial institutions, or hyperscale/mission-critical facilities.
• Proven record authoring and governing global engineering standards, design criteria, and exception processes.

Responsibilities

• Own and continuously improve Citi's Technology Facilities Design and Construction Technical Requirements across mechanical, electrical, plumbing, structural, civil, life-safety, utility, and building automation systems.
• Define resilience, redundancy, scalability, and maintainability requirements aligned to Facility Risk Categories; translate building-criticality classifications into engineering solutions.
• Monitor emerging technologies and regulatory developments, incorporating relevant updates into Citi's standards.
• Lead global technical peer reviews for capital projects, infrastructure upgrades, and live-environment modifications.
• Review and approve critical-facility design strategies: power/cooling topology, utility diversity, fire protection, leak detection, fuel systems, and future capacity.
• Establish stage-gate deliverables from concept through operational handover; elevate designs or test results presenting unacceptable residual risk.
• Govern formal technical exceptions and Requests for Deviation via the TechFace process, evaluating rationale, compensating controls, and residual risks.
• Maintain records of technical decisions and approved exceptions; use trends and incidents to continuously strengthen standards.
• Define and govern Citi's Critical Facilities commissioning framework across factory testing, functional performance testing, integrated systems testing, failure-scenario validation, and operational handover.
• Set acceptance criteria, oversee resolution of commissioning deficiencies, and ensure documentation is transferred to the operating organization.
• Lead engineering components of Citi's Global Utilities Program (electrical power, water, natural gas) — including grid/substation strategy, supply diversity, and utility interconnections.
• Assess regional grid constraints and future load requirements; partner with Sustainability, Procurement, and Energy Management on renewables, demand management, and decarbonization.
• Consolidate demand forecasts for major long-lead equipment (critical power, standby generation, cooling, electrical distribution); define standardized technical requirements to reduce portfolio variation.
• Assess supply-chain risks, equipment availability, and obsolescence; support Procurement in technical evaluation of strategic sourcing and framework agreements.
• Partner with the BMS/BAS Architect to translate approved controls architecture, monitoring, and cybersecurity requirements into project specifications and commissioning plans.
• Govern project-level deployment of BMS, BAS, and EPMS; review proposed departures from controls standards.
• Contribute Critical Facilities content to Citi's Global Workplace Design Guidelines and broader sustainability frameworks.
• Partner with the Global O&M Engineering Lead to provide lifecycle governance from design through live operation; incorporate commissioning findings, incidents, and root-cause analyses into future standards.
• Collaborate across Citi Technology Infrastructure, Security & Investigative Services, Sustainability, Procurement, Asset Management, and external partners; provide structured knowledge transfer and training.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Data center design

Critical facilities

Governance

Stakeholder management

BMS/BAS knowledge

Regulatory knowledge

Decision making

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree

Tools

BMS/BAS

Job description

Citigroup Inc. in New York seeks a Global Design & Construction Program Lead - Senior Vice President to serve as a global technical authority for Critical Facilities engineering, owning standards and guiding capital projects.

You will drive commissioning, governance, and sustainability initiatives across Citi's worldwide portfolio, ensuring resilience and regulatory alignment while leading multi-disciplinary reviews and stakeholder collaboration.