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Citi Markets Technology are seeking a highly motivated IT professional to join our Global Markets Platform team located in Mississauga. This is an opportunity to join the global team providing technology services across our suite of Equities electronic trading applications. This role will involve collaboration with electronic-trading platforms and infrastructure dealing with a wide range of teams including Traders, Application Developers, Product Owners, and Engineering. Role Overview The Infra Tech Lead Analyst is a senior-level position responsible for the successful execution of complex, strategic, enterprise-wide technology initiatives critical to Citis Markets business growth, regulatory compliance, operational efficiency and business outcomes. What will you do Interface with Citis Markets business, technology application teams and clients/vendors, understand functional business and technical connectivity requirements, translate the business/application/technical connectivity requirements into actionable engineering change requests for implementation by Network Engineering, Firewall & Proxy Engineering, Load Balancer Engineering and System Administrators/Engineering. Requires in-depth understanding of markets technology suites of applications and infrastructure areas collectively integrate within the sub-functions as well as coordinate and contribute to the objectives of the entire function. Widened communication and diplomacy skills are required to guide, influence and convince others, in particular colleagues in other areas and occasional external customers. Has responsibility for volume, quality, timeliness and delivery of end results of an area. Own and drive the creation of business/functional markets trading applications and servicing infrastructure connectivity requirements. Document solutions and manage end-to-end application architectural and connectivity flows, and the upstream and downstream dependencies. Integrate modern tools and emerging technologies including AI-enabled automation, collaboration platforms, to enhance productivity and streamline delivery workflows. Proactively identify risks, issues, and blockers; elevate with precision and propose credible mitigations before they become crises. Maintain Book of Work and facilitate prioritization discussions with key business and technology stakeholders. Document connectivity requirements and support service validation testing, release, and implementation activities. Identify, plan, and execute connectivity projects. Develop and publish content for senior management reporting, presentations, town halls, etc. Plan, coordinate, and drive day-to-day delivery of complex technology initiatives. Track milestones against target dates and provide regular status updates to stakeholders. Manage project scope, assess change requests, and clearly communicate impact on timelines, costs, and risks to Global Head of Platforms. Partner daily with business stakeholders, technology leads, product teams, and clients. Manage expectations across global teams and operate effectively in ambiguous, highpressure environments. Proactively identify, manage, and escalating project risks and issues. Define and drive risk mitigation strategies, including remediation plans. Create and maintain core project management artifacts and documentation. Apply lessons learned to improve future delivery and processes. Leverage automation and AI-enabled tools to improve productivity, reporting, and delivery discipline. Understanding business priorities and work as a liaison between business and engineering teams. Excellent oral and written communication skills to communicate issues, risks, and progress on complex processes to multiple stakeholders. Partner with technology teams to oversee projects, execute plans and ensure critical deliverables are met. Interface between Citis Markets Technology applications and infrastructure engineering teams such as Network & Firewall Engineering, Unix/Linux Server Engineering, Middleware Solace and Tibco engineering. PM design and implement scalable, secure, and highly available low latency trading network architectures. Drive coordination, planning, configuration, and deployment connectivity engineering solutions through routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, Proxy Servers & Zscaler from vendors such as Cisco, Juniper, Palo Alto, F5. Develop and maintain comprehensive network documentation, including diagrams, configurations, and procedures. Diagnose and resolve complex network issues, including connectivity problems, performance degradation, and security incidents. Participate in after-hours support for service validations during network change activities. Key Skills and Experience required Active collaboration with all parties to be successful. The resource should be able to effectively collaborate with the Markets-Tech Electronic Trading organization, steer other technology organizations directly or through influence, and love rolling up their sleeves and working as an individual contributor. Proven experience in technology project management, business analysis in application connectivity through network devices, data center migrations, and new connectivity network builds is essential. The role requires a resource that is not afraid to do new things and be challenged on a regular basis with a can-do attitude and an engineering mindset. Experience in Capital Markets Low Latency Network Infrastructure workflows will be highly relevant. Hands-on experience leveraging AI and automation for productivity with knowledge of emerging AI use cases in infrastructure technology functions is highly desirable. Proven ability to manage complex and variable issues with substantial potential impact by weighing various action plans and balancing potentially conflicting needs. Demonstrated ability to effectively use complex analytical, interpretive, and problem-solving techniques. Strong analytical, documentation, and problem-solving skills with ability to translate complex requirements into clear, actionable application connectivity designs. Strong communicator, written and verbal, thrives in tailoring message, medium, and tone to audience with precision and impact. Strong influencing and negotiation skills; ability to build and maintain effective networks and relationships. Relentlessly organizedmaintains meticulous control of actions, decisions, risks, and dependencies across complex architectural landscapes. Familiarity with SDLC and Agile development methodologies including tools such as Jira & Confluence. The Technologies Network (Routing & Switching, cut-through, Multicast, SDN, BGP, L1-L3, PCAP analysis) Monitoring (SPANs, TAPS, OEO, Packet Brokers, Corvil, SNMP, FIX, Logs, ELK, Open Telemetry, Grafana, Promethius) Compute (Linux, CoreOS, Tuning, kernel bypass technologies, core dump analysis) Messaging (TibRV, Solace, Aeron, ZeroMQ, Kafka, Multicast, Market data (TCP/UDP), Tibco, Exegy/Vela) Load Balancers (HW, SW) Security (Firewalls, PKI, TLS, IDS, Optical Encryption, AD, LDAP) Connectivity (WAN, Lucera, cross-connects, ECX, venue, client) Colo / Datacenter (Power, Space, Cage, Rack, Cabinet, Design) Excel (for advanced frameworks, data analysis) Recommended Qualifications 610 years of experience in roles centered around infrastructure delivery (application hosting and/or end user services) with a proven track record of operational process change and improvement. Understanding of how specialization within area contributes to the business and of competitors products and services. Ability to develop projects required for design of metrics, analytical tools, benchmarking activities and best practices. Ability to work with virtual / in-person teams, and work under pressure / to a deadline. Experience in a Financial Services or large complex and/or global environment preferred. Effective written and verbal communication skills. Effective analytic/diagnostic skills. Ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical audience. Education Bachelors/University degree, Masters degree preferred. Flexibility to work between 12:00PM - 9:00PM EST is required. This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required. #J-18808-Ljbffr