Citi

Senior Cloud & Risk Platform Engineer - Vice President

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2 days ago
Irving, TX, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$126k - $189k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Architect, develop, and deploy resilient cloud-native, event-driven microservices and high-throughput computing pipelines.
  • Build and scale real-time Credit Risk and Market Risk engines covering exposure, counterparty risk, limits, VaR, stress testing, and sensitivity analysis.
  • Resolve distributed-systems bottlenecks involving concurrency, multithreading, memory management, scalability, and enterprise data flows.
  • Adopt AI-assisted engineering tools for prototyping, code generation, testing, refactoring, code review, and debugging.
  • Establish standards for clean code, SOLID principles, CI/CD, container orchestration, telemetry, and observability.
  • Mentor engineers and analysts, conduct design reviews, and provide technical thought leadership.
  • Assess and manage technology and business risks while supporting regulatory compliance, controls governance, and protection of company and client assets.

Requirements

  • 6–10 years of progressive experience in software engineering, distributed-systems development, or applications architecture.
  • Deep expertise in Java, J2EE, Spring Boot, reactive frameworks, multithreading, asynchronous I/O, low-latency processing, and memory optimization.
  • Strong knowledge of Credit Risk and/or Market Risk concepts, including counterparty credit risk, stress testing, exposure calculations, VaR, sensitivities, and scenarios.
  • Hands-on experience architecting cloud microservices with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and OpenShift.
  • Experience with AI coding assistants and agentic engineering tools, including GitHub Copilot, Claude, Devin, and ChatGPT/LLM APIs.
  • Experience with distributed messaging and streaming platforms such as Apache Kafka, Pulsar, or RabbitMQ.
  • Strong background designing APIs and working with relational databases, distributed caches, and NoSQL platforms.
  • Experience with JUnit 5, Mockito, Cucumber, Testcontainers, JMeter, or Gatling.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD tools including Git, Tekton, Harness, Jenkins, and SonarQube, plus container security scanning.
  • Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, collaboration, communication, and technical mentoring skills.
  • Bachelor’s or university degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Financial Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience; a master’s degree is preferred.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs.
  • Paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays.
  • Full-time position based in Irving, Texas.
  • Primary salary range of $125,760.00–$188,640.00, with potential discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards for eligible employees.
  • Benefits and offerings may vary by jurisdiction, job level, and date of hire.

Tech Stack

Apache CassandraApache JMeterApache KafkaCucumberDockerGitgRPCHarnessHelmJavaJenkinsKubernetesMicrosoft SQL ServerMongoDBOpenShiftPostgreSQLRabbitMQRedisSonarQubeSpring BootTekton

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About Citi

10,000+ employees

Citi is a public financial-services company offering consumer and institutional banking, credit cards, wealth management, treasury and trade solutions, and capital-markets services. It serves individuals, corporations, financial institutions, and governments in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions, earning interest and fee income from lending, payments, trading, and advisory. Founded in 1812 and headquartered in New York, it trades on the NYSE under the ticker C.

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