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Job Overview

As the App Dev Senior Tech Lead Analyst, you will be responsible for the technical vision, architecture, and execution of this greenfield platform. You will lead a world-class engineering team from the ground up, 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.

Key Responsibilities

• 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 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.

Qualifications & Experience

• Education: Bachelor's or Masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Experience: 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 4+ 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 industry (Corporate Banking, Investment Banking, FinTech) 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

• AI / GenAI /Agentic AI
  • LLM & Agentic Frameworks: Deep expertise in building production-grade agentic systems using GCP as primary (ADK, Vertex AI)
  • Multi-Agent Systems: Hands-on experience designing and implementing multi-agent architectures(task decomposition, coordination, orchestration, and agent-to-agent (A2A) interaction patterns)
  • 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, Snowflake; streaming via Kafka
• Backend & Distributed Systems
  • Languages: Python (expert), Java/Spring Boot (enterprise standard), Go (plus)
  • Architecture: Microservices, domain-driven design, event-driven systems
  • APIs & Integration: REST/gRPC; Apigee, Kong
  • Data & Messaging: PostgreSQL/Oracle, MongoDB/Cassandra, Kafka
• Cloud & DevSecOps
  • Containers: Docker, Kubernetes (GKE/EKS)
  • IaC: Terraform
  • CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Jenkins
  • Observability: Splunk, ELK, Prometheus, Grafana

• Bachelors degree/University degree or equivalent experience
• Masters degree preferred

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Job Family Group:

Technology

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Job Family:

Applications Development

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Time Type:

Full time

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Primary Location:

Tampa Florida United States

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Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:

$141,440.00 - $212,160.00

In addition to salary, Citis 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.

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Most Relevant Skills

Please see the requirements listed above.

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Other Relevant Skills

For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

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Anticipated Posting Close Date:

Jun 23, 2026

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