Gft Finance

**Overview of Citi**
Citi, the world leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and a presence in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions worldwide. 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 cutting-edge ideas, best-in-class products and solutions, and unparalleled access to capital and liquidity.

**Job Purpose**
Responsible as an Enterprise Architect Designing, developing platform for Finance Services Automation Platform supporting EUC Remediation through automation. Responsibility of building enterprise-level solution that align with the organization’s technology strategy and business objective using highest Engineering Excellence standards, using Test Driven Development, Pair Programming and other Agile practices. This role is responsible for leading technical teams, mentoring junior architects, collaborating with stakeholders across the program to ensure successful delivery of technology initiative. This role will be a key contributor to strategy of adoption of this platform across different teams for automation and EUC remediation, wherein the platform is to be offered as a core service by this centralized team.

Able to work independently and manage and motivate the team and possess good communication skills. Has experience in working on complex and medium to large projects, navigate complex organization structure, managing senior stakeholders in the business and technology globally.

**What we offer**
- Be part of Strategic team to develop, enhance, support and maintain solutions for GFT Finance Services Automation Platform (FINSAP).
- Participate in technical discussions/brainstorming sessions and define ideas and strategies for existing and future platforms
- Work across diverse set of Finance platforms and have an opportunity to be part of re-architecture and re-platforming initiatives on modern low code automation technologies

GFT Finance Services Automation platform 'Appian Computing Solution ACS' is a global platform in Global Functions Technology built for providing low code automation services. The platform is built for Finance and Risk Shared Services (FRSS) global team (spread across centres in APAC and NAM) to automate thousands of manual processes that are required to complete as part of daily/month/quarter-end close process. Platform is going to be leveraged across other business units with ACS platform team maintaining the core product. Platform will also be enhanced to allow FRSS Power Users to participate in workflow development and process modeling. The India team is the global center for the creation of automation workflows, supported by teams in London and Belfast.

**Responsibilities**:

- The position is based in Pune, India and is required to review the day to day delivery work of platform team, ensuring a robust architecture and development process implementation, identifying delivery risks arising and work on risk mitigation. This role will report to the EUC India Lead and Global Platform Lead.
- This role will be the point for all architecture delivery of platform.
- This role will also be responsible for supporting on platform features to FINSAP delivery teams.
- This role will be responsible to work closely with business stakeholders to identify opportunities for technology innovation and recommend solution that drive business values.
- Responsible for leading team of Solution Architects and developers.
- Applies skills and knowledge of the business to develop creative solutions to meet client and business needs.
- Requires good analytical skills in order to filter, prioritize and validate potentially complex material from multiple sources.
- Develop and maintain technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, design documents, and standard and guidelines.
- Keep up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends, and make recommendations for technology adoption.

**Expected Results**
- Build and lead the FINSAP Platform team responsible for the evolution of the ACS automation platform by building features in low code tools for enabling custom point to solution for automation of manual workflows, to be used by developers and power uses for automating current EUC’s in a controlled SDLC framework.
- Define the Appian Computing Solution (ACS) core product roadmap for the BOW driven by complexity of EUC's, integration points and support meeting OCC committed target.
- Implement this platform for other client business units to deliver on commitment to business and OCC
- Build team and test strategy that drive the platform to quality tested product.
- Evolve the team culture and drive capability uplift of the existing tea