Application Development Technology Senior Lead-...

As the App Dev Senior Tech Lead Analyst, you will responsible for the technical vision, architecture, and execution of Financial Analytics application. You will lead a world-class technology team, while remaining deeply technical and contributing to the core development of the platform. This is a unique opportunity to blend strategic leadership with hands-on engineering to build a product that will have a direct and measurable impact on the front lines of our business., + Platform Architecture & Development: Lead the design, architecture, and hands-on development of a scalable, secure, and resilient agentic AI platform from concept to production.

• Technical Leadership & Hands-On Engineering: Serve as the lead engineer and technical authority, guiding critical decisions on frameworks, technologies, and infrastructure. You will be expected to write code, build prototypes, and lead by example.

• Strategic Roadmapping: Partner closely with product management and senior business leaders in banking to define the product strategy and technical roadmap. Translate complex business needs into elegant and scalable technical solutions.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner effectively with horizontal AI platform teams, enterprise architecture, and external vendor partners to leverage existing capabilities, influence roadmaps, and accelerate delivery.

• AI & ML Integration: Drive the strategy for integrating and operationalizing Large Language Models (LLMs), agentic frameworks (e.g., Google ADK, LangChain,), and other AI/ML technologies to solve real-world banking challenges.

• Operational Excellence: Implement and champion best-in-class engineering practices, including CI/CD, automated testing, infrastructure-as-code, and robust monitoring to ensure enterprise-grade reliability.

• Business Impact: Define, measure, and report on key performance indicators (KPIs) related to platform adoption, user productivity, and the ultimate impact on business outcomes like wallet share growth.

• Compliance & Security: Ensure the platform adheres to the highest standards of data privacy, security, and regulatory compliance required in the banking industry., We use automated processing, including artificial intelligence, for our legitimate business interests (or our reasonable and appropriate business purposes) to identify and align the candidate’s skills and abilities with a specific job opening. Additionally, if you so choose, or consent, we can match your skills and abilities to other suitable roles at Citi.

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• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.

• Experience: 12+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 2+ years in a leadership role, leading high-performing engineering teams.

• Hands-On Leader: Proven experience as a “player-coach” who can lead from the front, contribute to the codebase, and mentor junior and senior engineers.

• Platform Building: A strong track record of designing, building, and launching scalable, distributed, cloud-native platforms from the ground up.

• Domain Knowledge: Experience in the financial services, especially Financial Analytics is a significant plus. An understanding of banking workflows and data is highly desirable.

• Communication Skills: Exceptional ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and to articulate a clear technical vision that aligns with business goals.

Technical Skills

• Backend & Distributed Systems

• Languages: Java full stack/Spring Boot (enterprise standard) and Python Go (plus)

• Architecture: Microservices, domain-driven design, event-driven systems

• APIs & Integration: REST/gRPC; Apigee, Kong

• Data & Messaging: PostgreSQL/Oracle, MongoDB

• AI / GenAI /

• LLM & Agentic Frameworks: Deep expertise in building production-grade agentic systems using GCP as primary (ADK, Vertex AI)

• Model Context Protocol (MCP) & Integrations: Experience integrating agents with enterprise tools and data sources using MCP or equivalent context-sharing patterns

• Knowledge Graphs & Reasoning: Building and leveraging knowledge graphs for context enrichment, reasoning, and workflow automation

• RAG & Knowledge Systems: End-to-end RAG pipelines using enterprise search + vector stores (e.g., Elastic, Pinecone) with grounding, evaluation, and optimization

• Model Lifecycle & Governance: Model evaluation, monitoring, prompt/version control, and Responsible AI / MRM compliance

• Enterprise AI Integration & Data

• API- and event-driven integration of AI into enterprise workflows

• Data platforms: Databricks, Spark

• Cloud & DevSecOps

• Cloud Platforms: Strong experience with GCP (preferred); working knowledge of AWS; Azure exposure optional (not a dependency)

• Containers: Docker, Kubernetes (GKE/EKS)

• CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Jenkins

• Observability: Splunk, ELK, Prometheus, Grafana

• Security & Compliance

• Secure coding, API security, Zero Trust, + 10+ years of relevant experience

• Experience in implementing projects

• Experience in systems analysis and programming of software applications

• Demonstrated Subject Matter Expert (SME) in area(s) of Applications Development

• Demonstrated knowledge of client core business functions

• Demonstrated leadership, project management, and development skills

• Relationship and consensus building skills

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience

• Master’s degree preferred

• A competitive compensation package including salary and benefits., $141,440.00 - $212,160.00

In addition to salary, Citi’s offerings may also include, for eligible employees, discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards. Citi offers competitive employee benefits, including: medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs. Citi also offers paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays. For additional information regarding Citi employee benefits, please visit citibenefits.com. Available offerings may vary by jurisdiction, job level, and date of hire.