Fixed Income Data Acquisition & Warehouse Lead, SVP

Position Overview

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.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the data warehousing and processing strategy for Fixed Income trading, including the architecture of data APIs and data product design that serves both business and AI applications.
• Lead multiple teams of software engineers across Canada and Pune, setting engineering standards, coaching technical practices, and guiding the adoption of agentic AI coding tools and automation.
• Serve as site lead for the Fixed Income data team in Mississauga, acting as the local escalation point and actively shaping team culture and effectiveness.
• Own a complex, multi-stakeholder project portfolio spanning two major Fixed Income business lines, technology partners, and risk and control functions.
• Engage and influence senior leaders across business, technology, and risk functions to align data strategy with trading and operational priorities.
• Evaluate and maintain the health of the existing codebase — conducting technical deep-dives where needed — to ensure systems are scalable, maintainable, and fit for purpose.
• Accelerate the team's adoption of AI-driven development practices, establishing best practices for agentic tooling and ensuring engineering processes evolve at pace with the industry.

Required Qualifications & Skills

• 10 or more years of hands-on experience in software or data engineering, with depth in data pipelines, data modeling, and analytical systems.
• Demonstrated experience managing engineering teams, including global or distributed team structures across multiple time zones.
• Background in Fixed Income or broader capital markets, with working knowledge of how trading, risk, and P&L data flows support front-office functions.
• Hands-on technical foundation in Python, SQL, or Java, with the ability to engage directly with codebases and architectural decisions rather than solely managing at a distance.
• Track record of managing complex, multi-stakeholder programs with senior business and technology partners.
• Clear and concise communicator, able to engage credibly with senior stakeholders across business and technology functions.
• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience

Beneficial Skills & Qualifications

• Master's degree in a relevant technical or quantitative discipline.
• Experience designing or managing data products, including API-based data delivery to both human users and application consumers.
• Familiarity with agentic AI tools and an established view on how to integrate them responsibly into software development workflows.
• Experience serving in a site or regional leadership capacity, including ownership of local team operations and culture.

What We Offer

Joining Citi at this level means genuine strategic ownership — not just managing a team, but setting the direction for how data engineering, AI adoption, and product thinking come together to support some of the most complex trading businesses in the world.

You’ll lead from the front in a high-impact environment where technical credibility, leadership, and business acumen are equally valued.

• Strategic leadership scope across two multi-billion dollar Fixed Income businesses, with direct influence over data architecture and engineering direction.
• Hybrid working model with 3 days in the office and 2 days working remotely, offering structure and flexibility.
• Site lead accountability in Mississauga, giving you a platform to shape local team culture and professional development beyond your direct reports.
• A role at the forefront of AI adoption in financial services, with the mandate to define and implement best practices for agentic development tooling across your teams.
• Access to global collaboration across technology, trading, and risk functions, connecting you to peers and partners across Citi’s international network.
• Competitive compensation and benefits package reflective of Senior Vice President seniority, including financial wellbeing and long-term value programs.
• A performance-driven environment that rewards technical depth and leadership in equal measure, with room to grow in scope as the data platform evolves.

Job Details

• Time Type: Full time
• Primary Location Full Time Salary Range: $145,100.00 - $217,700.00

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