Overview

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Job Overview

The Product Engineering Director is responsible for defining product strategy, engaging applications teams to the need for new cloud products and services, and managing cloud product service lifecycle and roadmaps. The role will oversee design to implementation to ongoing performance monitoring, ensuring Citi makes strategic choices in onboarding, managing, and exiting vendors from the product portfolio. The role requires a technologist with experience working directly with engineering teams to deliver cloud services and products in an iterative, agile way.

Objectives of this role:

• Drive the product- and business-planning processes for cross-functional teams (central cloud engineering and application teams)
• Analyze customer needs, current market trends, and potential partnerships to drive the curation of services in cloud
• Work with application teams to build roadmaps for each curated cloud service, manage priority of work into the engineering teams aligned to delivering a curated cloud service
• Analyze product requirements and develop an appropriate product team approach to delivering them
• Develop, implement, and maintain production timelines across multiple departments
• Appraise new product ideas and strategize appropriate go-to-market plans
• Create a cohesive delivery function in Citi by joining application teams with central cloud engineering teams and ensuring OKRs are established, executed and measured
• Be a product evangelist to drive scaled adoption of released products across Citi

Required skills and qualifications:

• Can demonstrate previous experience of leading engineering teams to deliver cloud Infrastructure as Code that build platforms and services in both Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud
• You will have a Technical engineering background, with hands on experience of Terraform, Python, Java and GO
• Have extensive experience in delivering cloud modernization in large complex global organizations including a good understanding of application architectures, cloud services and automation
• You understand how to build central cloud pipelines, compute and data platforms and can demonstrate where you have successfully led engineering teams to deliver this in your previous roles
• You have product engineering leadership experience in previous roles, able to define product roadmaps, prioritize work and drive value outcomes, and become a key contributor to Citi's cloud strategy and modernization program
• 10 years + / Strong experience in a dynamic product management role
• Proven success in overseeing all elements of the product development lifecycle
• High effectiveness in managing cross-functional teams
• 10 years + experience of delivering products that leverage cloud services
• Proven software delivery experience, working with development teams to drive iterative / continuous deployments
• Strong technical understanding of software delivery, cloud services, providers' and tools
• Demonstrable experience in helping to identify, drive, and facilitate external partnerships that accelerate product usage, effectiveness, and deepen customer adoption and overall success
• Extensive track record leading product and engineering teams
• Exceptional writing and editing skills, combined with strong presentation and public speaking skills
• Curious, problem-solving leadership style
• Able to develop, scale, and continuously cultivate a strong product culture and team, energizing their team members while also holding them accountable to set goals
• Align strategy with product performance metrics (KPIs) that reflect capacity, utilization, efficiency, uptime

Skills and qualifications:

• Previous experience in software and web development
• Understanding of value stream mapping and how to increase productivity of development teams
• Track record of working in financial services or other regulated industries, specifically regarding the leveraging of cloud services
• Solid understanding of prioritization methodologies and how to break work down and deliver using a lean approach with close collaboration with Agile delivery managers

Personal Characteristics:

• "Servant" leader and action-oriented who can set strategy and drive execution with a "roll up the sleeves" approach
• Personally committed to moving aggressively to achieve scale
• Extremely detail oriented person that leads with process and discipline
• Entrepreneurial and ambitious with a "can-do" mentality
• A natural collaborator
• Forward-thinking, optimistic and excited about driving cloud transformation in large enterprise organizations
• Flexibility to adapt to dynamic and rapidly changing and ambiguous environments
• An obsession with building exceptional products; you are entrepreneurial but can operate at scale

We offer:

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 discretionary 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

Visit our Global Benefits page to learn more.

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.

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Job Family Group: Technology

Job Family: Technology Product Management

Time Type: Full time

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