Hybrid Ecosystem Ownership: Oversee the architectural health, scalability, and resilience of a portfolio encompassing 190+ applications spanning legacy mainframe transaction processors, microservices, container platforms, and cloud-native solutions.
Cloud & Platform Modernization: Lead complex cloud migration strategies, decomposing monolithic legacy components into modern, containerized private/hybrid cloud microservices.
Toolchain & CI/CD Pipeline Evolution: Standardize modern CI/CD automation, trunk-based development, and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) toolchains across all application development teams.
C. Financial Impact & Platform Cost Optimization
Strategic Decommissioning: Drive end-to-end technical execution for legacy platform decommissions (e.g., Bitbucket migrations, deprecated middleware, end-of-life infrastructure) to eliminate redundant operational overhead and licensing fees.
Infrastructure Optimization: Architect and migrate high-throughput workloads to cost-efficient private cloud infrastructure, actively monitoring compute utilization, storage efficiency, and capacity planning.
Financial Accountability: Translate engineering choices into direct financial efficiencies, maximizing return on technology investments (ROTI).
D. Senior Management Team (SMT) Risk, Governance & Quality Ownership
Executive Metrics & SMT Reporting: Directly own, track, and present engineering quality, delivery velocity, and risk posture metrics to the Senior Management Team (SMT).
Release on Demand (ROD) Adoption: Lead organizational transformation to achieve and sustain 100% Release on Demand (ROD) capabilities across squads through automated gates and progressive delivery.
DORA Stability & Resilience: Establish and maintain industry-leading DORA (DevOps Research and Assessment) metrics:
Deployment Frequency (On-Demand / Continuous)
Lead Time for Changes (< 24–48 hours)
Change Failure Rate (< 5%)
Mean Time to Restore (MTTR) (High resilience and automated recovery)
Risk & Controls Compliance: Ensure strict adherence to information security, regulatory compliance, vulnerability management, and audit mandates across all application lifecycles.
E. Enterprise-Wide Sphere of Influence & Stakeholder Alignment
Cross-Departmental Synergy: Function as a trusted advisor and force multiplier across application development teams, QA/testing organizations, infrastructure operations, product management, and vendor partners.
Citi Developer Manifesto Champion: Propagate and embed core tenets of the Citi Developer Manifesto, driving developer experience (DevEx) enhancements, automated testing rigor, and continuous learning.
Talent Development & Coaching: Mentor lead engineers and senior developers, guiding technical talent through structured promotion paths and engineering leadership excellence.
Qualifications
BS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
12+years of experience working in DevOps and automation
Minimum 10 years of experience in CI/CD, Jenkins, Build Pipeline, DevOps Automation, Monitoring
Minimum 4 Years’ Experience in Kubernetes/Cloud CI/CD pipeline and Admin activities
Primary Skill required in Distributed and NexGen DevOps Tools
Secondary Skill Experience in Mainframe DevOps is added advantage
Blue Optima, CheckMarx, SonarQube, Blackduck, Python, Shell Script
Knowledge in Middleware Deployments in WebSphere, Tomcat and WebLogic
DevOps experience in API development in Next gen Infra
Experience in Handling Open shift platform/Public Cloud DevOps Activities
Knowledge with any of Commercial cards and Modernization is added advantage
Capable of driving Solutions end to end for any DevOps solutions
DevOps testing and Programming Knowledge is added advantage.
Artificial Intelligence/SRE/No Ops
App/Performance Monitoring tools like Splunk and Appd etc
DevOps Coding Knowledge like python, Shell Script or any other DevOps Scripting tool is Mandatory
Technical / Functional Proficiency
Competency in understanding strategic imperatives, understanding customer experience, reimagine business processes, embrace agility, continuous stakeholder collaboration, strategic use of data, understand technology, embrace product management.
Experience in working with Vision Plus Credit Card System with Digital Business Experience around Wallets, API, 3D Secure, etc.
Must have experience in Microsoft tools, i.e., Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio and SharePoint
Excellent functional and product solution/design skills on Core Credit Cards VisionPlus modules
Good knowledge on end-to-end cards features and across all applications
Excellent documentation skills in preparing business requirement, functional specs/design, use case and functional flow documents.
Experience with SDLC methodologies and structured systems analysis and design
Responsible for interacting with the business, technology teams, partner systems and card processors in understanding business functionality / requirements
Capable of knowledge gathering / reverse engineering existing functionality of application platforms through interaction with users and technical teams
Effectively documenting functionality and requirements for use by technology teams
Communicating functionality and requirements effectively to development teams
Support functional design preparation and review with technology teams
Assist testing teams in preparation and reviews of functional test scenarios
Experience in delivering Solution Design and Process flows
Provides all required status updates to project team, users, and various levels of management as appropriate
Experience in Agile Methodology
Leadership Skills
Excellent organization skills, attention to detail, and ability to multi-task
Experience in Financial industry i.e., Credit Cards
Demonstrated sense of responsibility and capability to deliver quickly
Process focused to ensure efficiency, compliance and control
Good knowledge on productization and global code base
Excellent communication skills. Clearly articulating and documenting technical and functional specifications is a key requirement.
Proactive problem-solver
Relationship builder and team player
Flexibility to work in multiple complex projects and changing priorities
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Job Family Group
Technology
Job Family
Applications Development
Time Type
Full time
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