Job description summary: We are hiring for the role of 'NAM Head -Fixed Income Trade Processing Technology'. This role is based right in the heart of the financial district in New York.
It is a senior technical hands-on leadership level position responsible for the overall success of Engineering teams delivering to critical business initiatives and regulatory mandates.
About Citi: Citi, the top tier global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management. Citi enables clients to achieve their strategic financial objectives by providing them with ground breaking ideas, premier offerings and solutions, and unparalleled access to capital and liquidity.
Diversity is a key business imperative and a source of strength at Citi. Being the best for our clients requires a culture of inclusion; an environment of equity, respect, and opportunity for everyone. Teams with diverse backgrounds and experiences bring different perspectives to the conversation, enhance decision-making, and improve overall business performance. Citi has made it a priority to foster a culture where the best people want to work, where individuals are promoted based on merit, where we value and demand respect for others and where opportunities to develop are widely available to all.
Fixed Income Trade Processing Services Overview: Citi is the market maker and a global leader in all major Fixed Income markets in across the globe. Fixed Income trade capture platform is Citi's primary Fixed Income trading platform processing Derivatives, Cash and Exotics products with 2000+ Trading, Sales, Middle Office users globally. The platform, built on state of the art technology stack processes around 200,000 transactions daily and provides real time position , risk management capabilities. It has connectivity to 60+ electronic trading venues and 20+ regulatory bodies globally.
The Fixed Income Trade Processing team is a dynamic and high-performing division of Citi's Markets technology. The global team has members in major cities in NY/NJ, Canada, UK and India. We work on business critical high availability application solutions across 80+ countries. Our applications are considered amongst the best-in-class within the industry.
Role / Position Overview: Job Responsibilities: - Manage and build out a high-performing team in North America, building out capacity for locally driven delivery where appropriate
- Leveraging the local resource pool for effective delivery, ensuring focus and resourcing against key initiatives
- Overseeing delivery of sub-teams focused on unified platform buildout, Electronic Trading STP, trade capture and enrichment, regulatory reporting and downstream flows
- Working directly with Trading, Sales front office and middle offices users across Rates, Spread Products and Markets Treasury businesses to understand their key priorities
- Partnering with global development, QA and support teams for effective delivery to business
- Enabling a strong level of third line application support in the region
- Building a broad-based understanding across the full application suite
- Utilizing creativity and innovation to improve the technical capabilities of the platform and ensuring it remains stable, flexible and maintainable
- Partner with senior technology partners around the globe
Qualifications - 15+ years of experience in an Engineering role with extensive experience in software delivery as well as test automation. Full stack Java development required
- Proven leadership and team management skills and experience (7+ years)
- Proven ability to face off to business stakeholders in frequent and professional manner (traders, sales, MO, desk-heads)
- Strong track record of timely and disciplined project delivery
- Demonstrated ability to attract, retain and promote talent within team
- A solid architectural understanding of enterprise applications
- Experience with modern software development practices such as Agile development, test-driven development, and continuous integration and continuous delivery.
- Understanding of computing science fundamentals - concurrency, algorithms, data structures, design patterns, etc.
- Good knowledge of major Fixed Income Products (e.g. Bonds/Swaps/Futures) and Broker/Customer Markets electronic trading flows.
- Desirable - Experience developing large financial software trading systems with substantial hands-on development experience
Competencies: - Excellent communication skills, oral and written; ability to face off to business users.
- Good team-work skills, and the ability to work in a distributed global team environment
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Excellent planning and organizational skills
- Self-motivated with the determination to learn and achieve his/her goals
- Flexible and able to deliver quality results in the required timeframe
- Experience in full lifecycle development
- Ability to inspire and raise the level of his/her colleagues from a both technical & leadership perspective.
- Ability to multi-task effectively
Development Value: This position gives an excellent opportunity for the selected candidate to play a significant role in an exciting and critical business within Citi. As a member of our highly acclaimed Technology team, this role provides the opportunity to participate in and shape the expansion and pre-eminence of our Business working together with our team of highly skilled technologists. We believe it is even more special to do this as part of Citi, a premier financial institution that is one of the biggest and best in the market, and as a part of our team that has a high visibility for our work both inside our larger organization as well as in the global Capital Markets world. The position will enable you to leverage Citi's incomparable geographical reach, product richness, and engineering expertise and to translate these into a successful and top-of-the-class product offering for our customers.
Job Family Group: Technology
Job Family: Applications Development
Time Type: Full time
Primary Location: New York New York United States
Primary Location Full Time Salary Range: $176,720.00 - $265,080.00
In addition to salary, Citi's offerings may also include, for eligible employees, discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards. Citi offers competitive employee benefits, including: medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs. Citi also offers paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays. For additional information regarding Citi employee benefits, please visit citibenefits.com. Available offerings may vary by jurisdiction, job level, and date of hire.
Most Relevant Skills Please see the requirements listed above.
Other Relevant Skills For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.
Anticipated Posting Close Date: Jan 14, 2026
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