About Citi: Citi, the leading 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.
As a bank with a brain and a soul, Citi creates economic value that is systemically responsible and in our clients’ best interests. As a financial institution that touches every region of the world and every sector that shapes your daily life, our Enterprise Operations & Technology teams are charged with a mission that rivals any large tech company. Our technology solutions are the foundations of everything we do from keeping the bank safe, managing global resources, and providing the technical tools our workers need to be successful to designing our digital architecture and ensuring our platforms provide a first-class customer experience. We reimagine client and partner experiences to deliver excellence through secure, reliable, and efficient services.
Our commitment to diversity includes a workforce that represents the clients we serve from all walks of life, backgrounds, and origins. We foster an environment where the best people want to work. We value and demand respect for others, promote individuals based on merit, and ensure opportunities for personal development are widely available to all. Ideal candidates are innovators with well-rounded backgrounds who bring their authentic selves to work and complement our culture of delivering results with pride. If you are a problem solver who seeks passion in your work, come join us. We’ll enable growth and progress together.
About the Team:
The Enterprise Architecture Lead Analyst is a senior technology professional responsible for designing, governing, and implementing enterprise architecture solutions that support Citi's business strategy and technology objectives. This role partners with engineering, infrastructure, security, data, and business teams to translate complex business requirements into scalable, resilient, secure, and efficient technology solutions.
The successful candidate will demonstrate strong architecture expertise, influence technology direction across multiple initiatives, and drive adoption of enterprise standards, architectural best practices, and emerging technologies.
Responsibilities:
- Executes the architectural vision for all IT systems through major, complex IT architecture projects; ensures that architecture conforms to enterprise blueprints.
- Develops technology road maps, while keeping up-to-date with emerging technologies, and recommends business directions based on these technologies.
- Provides technical leadership and is responsible for developing components of, or the overall systems design.
- Translates complex business problems into sound technical solutions.
- Applies hardware engineering and software design theories and principles in researching, designing, and developing product hardware and software interfaces.
- Provides integrated systems planning and recommends innovative technologies that will enhance the current system.
- Recommends appropriate desktop, computer platform, and communication links required to support IT goals and strategy.
- Exhibits good knowledge of how own specialism contributes to the business and good understanding of competitors products and services.
- Acts as an advisor or mentor to junior team members.
- Requires sophisticated analytical thought to resolve issues in a variety of complex situations.
- Impacts the architecture function by influencing decisions through advice, counsel or facilitating services.
- Guides, influences and persuades others with developed communication and diplomacy skills.
- Performs other job duties and functions as assigned
- Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.
Qualifications
- 6–10 years of experience in enterprise architecture, solutions architecture, software engineering, infrastructure engineering, or a related technology field.
- Proven experience designing and delivering complex technology solutions in large-scale enterprise environments.
- Experience working across multiple technology domains, including cloud, applications, infrastructure, data, and systems integration.
- Strong track record of partnering with both technical teams and business stakeholders to deliver technology solutions.
Required Technical Skills
- Strong knowledge of enterprise and solution architecture principles and best practices.
- Experience designing cloud-based solutions using AWS and/or Azure.
- Understanding of microservices, distributed systems, and API-driven architectures.
- Familiarity with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, automation, and Infrastructure-as-Code.
- Knowledge of database technologies and data architecture concepts.
- Experience with architecture governance, technology standards, and solution review processes.
- Understanding of security, resiliency, and operational risk considerations in technology design.
Preferred Technical Skills
- Experience designing multi-cloud environments.
- Knowledge of Kubernetes, OpenShift, or other container orchestration platforms.
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform.
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures and messaging platforms such as Kafka.
- Experience with enterprise integration and API management platforms.
- Knowledge of modern data platforms such as Snowflake and analytics ecosystems.
Professional Skills
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to influence, collaborate, and build partnerships across business and technology teams.
- Strong organizational, prioritization, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
- Continuous learning mindset with a passion for technology and innovation.
Education:
Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience, potentially Masters degree
This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.
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Job Family Group:
Technology
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Job Family:
Architecture
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Time Type:
Full time
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Primary Location:
Irving Texas United States
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Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:
$125,760.00 - $188,640.00
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.
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Most Relevant Skills
Please see the requirements listed above.
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Other Relevant Skills
For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.
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Anticipated Posting Close Date:
Aug 07, 2026
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Automated Processing and AI
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Importantly, all our hiring processes and decisions, including determining your suitability for a role, are conducted, checked, and decided by individuals. Our automated processing and AI do not involve relying on automatic or autonomous decision-making. Please refer to any Jurisdictional Considerations, with specific provisions for your country (where relevant) for further details.
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