Responsibilities
Serves as the primary delivery partner to Line of Business Managing Directors, CIOs, and business product heads across NYC and London hubs.
Directs sprint planning, resource allocation, technical architecture, and rapid delivery for 3–5 concurrent AI agent projects within the pod.
Ensures all agentic software built by the pod strictly adheres to enterprise architectural blueprints, Agentflow evaluation gates, and Lakera Guardrails.
Manages, mentors, and coaches an embedded squad of 8 senior Forward Deployed Engineers (C12–C14), fostering a high-velocity culture of technical rigor, customer empathy, and rapid prototyping.
Drives the design and implementation of system integrations between autonomous agents and core banking backends, databases, and third-party APIs.
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, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.
Qualifications
15+ years of relevant technology experience, with 8+ years leading engineering squads in Tier-1 banking, top-tier tech, or fintech environments.
Hands-on technical understanding of modern AI paradigms, including Large Language Models (LLMs), autonomous agents, embeddings, vector search, and Model Context Protocol (MCP).
Proven track record of managing high-bandwidth client relationships and delivering complex distributed software systems into regulated production environments.
Demonstrated ability to attract, recruit, develop, and retain elite senior engineering talent.
Strong working knowledge of financial products, capital markets, wealth management, or enterprise banking operations.
Education
Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience; Master’s degree preferred.
What we’ll provide you
This is a unique role that will put you in the position to be part of a new venture and actively drive change. Every day there will be new challenges that will help you develop new skills that can drive your career.
By joining Citi London, 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 such as:
27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
A discretional annual performance related bonus
Private Medical Care & Life Insurance
Employee Assistance Program
Pension Plan
Paid Parental Leave
Special discounts for employees, family, and friends
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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 energized to join us, motivated to stay and empowered to thrive.
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Job Family Group
Technology
Job Family
Applications Development
Time Type
Full time
- Most Relevant Skills
- Please see the requirements listed above.
- Other Relevant Skills
- For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.
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