Product Developer (Vice President)

Shape your career with Citi in Dublin. By joining Citi, you will become part of a global organisation whose mission is to serve as a trusted partner to our clients by responsibly providing financial services that enable growth and economic progress.

Citi has had a presence in Ireland since 1965, it was one of the first foreign banks to open an office in the country and is the Citibank Europe Plc Headquarters.

Team/Role Overview

he Product Developer is a strategic professional who stays abreast of developments within own field and contributes to directional strategy by considering their application in own job and the business. Recognized technical authority for an area within the business. Requires basic commercial awareness. There are typically multiple people within the business that provide the same level of subject matter expertise. Developed communication and diplomacy skills are required in order to guide, influence and convince others, in particular colleagues in other areas and occasional external customers. Significant impact on the area through complex deliverables. Provides advice and counsel related to the technology or operations of the business. Work impacts an entire area, which eventually affects the overall performance and effectiveness of the sub-function/job family.

What you’ll do

• The Product Developer is responsible for activities related to the development or new products and/or features and functionality of products including developing business cases, requirements definition (BRDs), product enhancements innovation, feature and functionality definition based on market and industry research and trends and client needs
• This role manages the end-to-end product development lifecycle and will also scope product releases, agreeing to and tracking business priorities, incorporating regulatory and compliance requirements and investment tracking
• Drive the rollout of our Digital Product capabilities and services, including real-time data enablement, Digital Assets Custody, Tokenization and real-time cash processing
• Champion AI tools, and embed AI-driven efficiencies into the business
• Creates a product vision aligned to business priorities and corresponding road-map to delivery
• Follows market, industry and client trends to own field and adapts them for application Citi’s products and solutions platforms
• Develops plans, prioritizes, coordinates design and delivery of products or features to product release, and serves as product ambassador within user community
• Works in close co-ordination with Technology, Business Managers and other stakeholders to fulfill the delivery objectives
• Collaborate with key partners to develop and articulate solutions for clients, and help differentiate Citi from our competitors
• Develop client facing materials to support client discussions and Sales efforts
• Ensure Operations staff are appropriately aligned to the business needs, and equipped to support business functions
• Support the BAU management of cash transaction processing and reporting, and act as SME for cash functions and service requirements.
• Manages and implements a wide variety of products and solutions
• Has responsibility to deliver direct business results and advice regarding product development that necessitates a degree of responsibility over technical strategy
• Partners with senior team members and leaders and a widely distributed global user community to define and implement solutions
• Creates clear and specific project plans, business and technical requirements documents for product execution
• Interacts with business managers, technology, and sales to understand their long term vision, discuss industry trends, and incorporate them into the product & solutions strategy
• Focuses on controls and governance, including performing Need-to-Know based security and access reviews, Access Approvals, controls testing and documentation
• 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

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What we’ll need from you

• Relevant experience in Payments, Custody or Liquidity is highly desirable
• Relevant AI-related experience in bank products/technology in banking area
• Digital, Data & AI: Experience and aptitude integrating digital, data analytics, and emerging technologies (including AI/ML concepts), with a proactive AI-first mindset to identify and apply solutions within the business, client solutions, technology and operational processes.
• Intellectual curiosity, analytical and conceptual thinker
• Proactively seeks and develops new opportunities
• Attention to detail and process/analytic mindset
• Ability to build networks and relationships internally and externally
• Familiarity with product development methodologies
• Direct experience in end-to-end project delivery, preferably in product development, and knowledge of various analytical tools including QlikView, Tableau, Access
• Comfortable with performing data investigations that require a high degree of accuracy with tight timescales
• Ability to create business analysis, troubleshoot data quality issues, and conduct exploratory and descriptive analysis of business datasets
• Ability to structure and break down problems, develop solutions, and to drive to results
• Process Management knowledge with a propensity for detail and comprehensiveness of content
• Ability to collaborate and clearly communicate with team members of an organization
• Project Management skills with experience leading large cross functional initiatives
• Generation of reports and presentations for management

What we can offer you

By joining Citi Dublin, 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 that support you (and your family) to be well, live well and save well. Discover more here.

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 energised to join us, motivated to stay, and empowered to thrive. 

Sounds like Citi has everything you need? Then apply to discover the true extent of your capabilities. 

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