Head of FX Linear Pricing FX Technology - Citi
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- England,London,City of London
- Full Time, Permanent
- Competitive salary
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Full job description Discover your future at Citi
Working at Citi is far more than just a job. A career with us means joining a team of approximately 219,000 dedicated people from around the globe. At Citi, you’ll have the opportunity to grow your career, give back to your community and make a real impact.
Job Overview
About Citi
As the world’s most global bank, Citi gives you the tools to be a trailblazer. We’re not just building technology; we’re building the future of banking. With thousands of employees located around the globe, we are an international team encompassing a broad range of teams, roles, and cultures, and we invite you to come and join us!
Citi’s technology team supports business operations in 100+ countries, across multiple lines of business spanning both Institutional and retail businesses.
The group works to optimise the IT environment by standardising production platforms, reducing complexity, and introducing innovative solutions that provide new business capabilities, reduce total cost of ownership, and create a competitive advantage for Citi.
We want to regularly engage with talented individuals who are passionate about producing clean, testable code as part of a high performing team. We have found this to be way more important than experience in the financial sector.
We welcome applications from any industry and should you wish to apply, your application will be reviewed for a multitude of senior technology leadership positions.
About FX Tech
Citi FX has a physical presence in 83 countries with 1,400 dedicated staff, giving us the largest FX presence of any bank globally. Foreign Exchange has been one of the defining businesses of Citi for much of its 200-year existence.
Citi has the largest FX presence of any bank globally and we proudly put this down to delivering unrivalled service and insight to our clients. Increasing investment in technology has seen us roll out award-winning applications across trading, pricing, and distribution. Technology is a central pillar for our plans to sustain and grow our FX business.
Above all, we seek individuals who combine exceptional attitude and aptitude with a demonstrated passion for delivering FX technology in support of our #1 FX business. The Head of FX Linear Pricing is a critical senior appointment that will directly shape the pricing infrastructure underpinning Citi’s global FX franchise.
Role Overview / What Will You Do
This is a high-visibility Director-level position reporting to the Global Head of FX eTrading Technology. The successful candidate will own the strategic direction, technology architecture, and engineering leadership for all FX Linear Pricing platforms, spanning Spot, Forwards, NDFs, and associated hedging instruments.
The role combines executive-level strategy with hands-on technical credibility. The Head of FX Linear Pricing is expected to operate at the intersection of engineering excellence, quantitative finance, and business strategy, setting multi-year platform vision while remaining close to the teams and systems delivering it.
The role includes budget and investment responsibility.
Strategic Leadership and Vision
*Define and own the multi-year technology strategy for all FX Linear Pricing platforms, aligned to global business priorities and Citi’s broader technology transformation agenda
*Shape the future architecture of FX pricing engines, driving modernisation of legacy infrastructure and designing next-generation, ultra low-latency, highly scalable pricing platforms
*Partner with the Global Head of eFX Trading, STIRT Trading, Quant, and Risk functions to ensure pricing platforms deliver measurable competitive advantage across all client and market-making channels
*Represent FX Linear Pricing technology at the executive level, presenting roadmaps, investment proposals, and risk and opportunity assessments to senior leadership across Technology and the Business
*Drive adoption of industry-leading engineering practices: CI/CD, observability, chaos engineering, and platform reliability frameworks
*Contribute to defining and implementing best practices and standards for the FX Technology department, ensuring transparency and consistency across all teams
People Leadership and Organisational Development *Lead, inspire, and develop a globally distributed team of senior engineers and technical leads, fostering a culture of engineering excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement
*Define the organisational structure, roles, and career frameworks for the Linear Pricing engineering function, ensuring resource allocation is aligned to strategic priorities
*Own all personnel responsibilities: performance evaluations, talent development, succession planning, hiring, and where necessary, performance management and disciplinary actions
*Position the Linear Pricing engineering team as the engineering role model for the FX Technology organisation and across Citi more broadly
*Develop a clear vision for the team around roles and responsibilities; structure the team to ensure the greatest impact, efficient use of resource, and alignment to business objectives
*Lead and deliver local and global staff forums, present strategic direction, global and regional updates to engage the team in the progress of the organisation
Technical Delivery and Architecture *Maintain deep, hands-on technical credibility: actively engage in architecture reviews, codebase deep-dives, and system design, providing detailed and constructive guidance to engineering leads
*Drive delivery of complex, mission-critical platform programmes: new system builds, legacy replacements, and infrastructure modernisation initiatives across all linear FX products
*Ensure the highest standards of system reliability, operational resilience, and performance, including SLA ownership and incident management frameworks
*Collaborate with Quant and Structuring teams to translate pricing model changes and new product requirements into production-grade engineering solutions with speed and precision
*Ensure staff adhere to Citi’s documented engineering policies, control frameworks, and regulatory obligations, maintaining comprehensive documentation and audit-ready desktop procedures
Stakeholder Management and Influence *Act as the primary technology interface for FX Linear businesses, building trusted partnerships with Trading, Sales, Quant, Risk, and Operations stakeholders
*Influence cross-functional technology decisions at a senior level, contributing to enterprise-wide architecture governance and platform standardisation initiativesDrive innovation by tracking industry
Working at Citi is far more than just a job. A career with us means joining a team of approximately 219,000 dedicated people from around the globe. At Citi, you’ll have the opportunity to grow your career, give back to your community and make a real impact.
Job Overview
About Citi
As the world’s most global bank, Citi gives you the tools to be a trailblazer. We’re not just building technology; we’re building the future of banking. With thousands of employees located around the globe, we are an international team encompassing a broad range of teams, roles, and cultures, and we invite you to come and join us!
Citi’s technology team supports business operations in 100+ countries, across multiple lines of business spanning both Institutional and retail businesses.
The group works to optimise the IT environment by standardising production platforms, reducing complexity, and introducing innovative solutions that provide new business capabilities, reduce total cost of ownership, and create a competitive advantage for Citi.
We want to regularly engage with talented individuals who are passionate about producing clean, testable code as part of a high performing team. We have found this to be way more important than experience in the financial sector.
We welcome applications from any industry and should you wish to apply, your application will be reviewed for a multitude of senior technology leadership positions.
About FX Tech
Citi FX has a physical presence in 83 countries with 1,400 dedicated staff, giving us the largest FX presence of any bank globally. Foreign Exchange has been one of the defining businesses of Citi for much of its 200-year existence.
Citi has the largest FX presence of any bank globally and we proudly put this down to delivering unrivalled service and insight to our clients. Increasing investment in technology has seen us roll out award-winning applications across trading, pricing, and distribution. Technology is a central pillar for our plans to sustain and grow our FX business.
Above all, we seek individuals who combine exceptional attitude and aptitude with a demonstrated passion for delivering FX technology in support of our #1 FX business. The Head of FX Linear Pricing is a critical senior appointment that will directly shape the pricing infrastructure underpinning Citi’s global FX franchise.
Role Overview / What Will You Do
This is a high-visibility Director-level position reporting to the Global Head of FX eTrading Technology. The successful candidate will own the strategic direction, technology architecture, and engineering leadership for all FX Linear Pricing platforms, spanning Spot, Forwards, NDFs, and associated hedging instruments.
The role combines executive-level strategy with hands-on technical credibility. The Head of FX Linear Pricing is expected to operate at the intersection of engineering excellence, quantitative finance, and business strategy, setting multi-year platform vision while remaining close to the teams and systems delivering it.
The role includes budget and investment responsibility.
Strategic Leadership and Vision
*Define and own the multi-year technology strategy for all FX Linear Pricing platforms, aligned to global business priorities and Citi’s broader technology transformation agenda
*Shape the future architecture of FX pricing engines, driving modernisation of legacy infrastructure and designing next-generation, ultra low-latency, highly scalable pricing platforms
*Partner with the Global Head of eFX Trading, STIRT Trading, Quant, and Risk functions to ensure pricing platforms deliver measurable competitive advantage across all client and market-making channels
*Represent FX Linear Pricing technology at the executive level, presenting roadmaps, investment proposals, and risk and opportunity assessments to senior leadership across Technology and the Business
*Drive adoption of industry-leading engineering practices: CI/CD, observability, chaos engineering, and platform reliability frameworks
*Contribute to defining and implementing best practices and standards for the FX Technology department, ensuring transparency and consistency across all teams
People Leadership and Organisational Development *Lead, inspire, and develop a globally distributed team of senior engineers and technical leads, fostering a culture of engineering excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement
*Define the organisational structure, roles, and career frameworks for the Linear Pricing engineering function, ensuring resource allocation is aligned to strategic priorities
*Own all personnel responsibilities: performance evaluations, talent development, succession planning, hiring, and where necessary, performance management and disciplinary actions
*Position the Linear Pricing engineering team as the engineering role model for the FX Technology organisation and across Citi more broadly
*Develop a clear vision for the team around roles and responsibilities; structure the team to ensure the greatest impact, efficient use of resource, and alignment to business objectives
*Lead and deliver local and global staff forums, present strategic direction, global and regional updates to engage the team in the progress of the organisation
Technical Delivery and Architecture *Maintain deep, hands-on technical credibility: actively engage in architecture reviews, codebase deep-dives, and system design, providing detailed and constructive guidance to engineering leads
*Drive delivery of complex, mission-critical platform programmes: new system builds, legacy replacements, and infrastructure modernisation initiatives across all linear FX products
*Ensure the highest standards of system reliability, operational resilience, and performance, including SLA ownership and incident management frameworks
*Collaborate with Quant and Structuring teams to translate pricing model changes and new product requirements into production-grade engineering solutions with speed and precision
*Ensure staff adhere to Citi’s documented engineering policies, control frameworks, and regulatory obligations, maintaining comprehensive documentation and audit-ready desktop procedures
Stakeholder Management and Influence *Act as the primary technology interface for FX Linear businesses, building trusted partnerships with Trading, Sales, Quant, Risk, and Operations stakeholders
*Influence cross-functional technology decisions at a senior level, contributing to enterprise-wide architecture governance and platform standardisation initiativesDrive innovation by tracking industry
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