Citi

Lead/Staff Forward Deployed Engineer - Senior Vice President

Citi
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Base Salary

$177k - $265k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the senior technical anchor embedded with LOB engineering squads and lead technical problem-solving and architecture for agent deployments.
  • Architect and build end-to-end agentic workflows using Python, ADK, LangGraph, and the Arc platform.
  • Lead integrations with core banking systems, databases, microservices, enterprise APIs, and event streams through custom Model Context Protocol servers.
  • Implement enterprise security controls for agentic execution, including mTLS, OAuth2 token delegation, HashiCorp Vault, and OpenShift container security.
  • Mentor C12 and C13 engineers through code reviews, architecture critiques, and security assessments.
  • Partner with the Principal AI Architect on field design patterns, enterprise agent blueprints, and reusable components.
  • Drive compliance with applicable laws, policies, regulations, and control requirements while escalating and reporting control issues.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of relevant software engineering experience, including 7+ years with backend or distributed systems and 2+ years building and deploying production LLM or agentic applications.
  • Mastery of Python, asynchronous programming with asyncio, state machines, Docker/OpenShift, and distributed microservices architectures.
  • Expertise integrating enterprise APIs, relational or NoSQL databases, and Kafka event streams into agent reasoning loops.
  • Deep knowledge of application security, zero-trust patterns, and safe tool-execution environments.
  • Strong leadership, mentoring, communication, and stakeholder collaboration capabilities.
  • Bachelor’s or university degree or equivalent experience; a Master’s degree is preferred.

Benefits

  • Primary location is New York, New York, United States, with a full-time salary range of $176,720.00–$265,080.00.
  • Eligible employees may receive discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards.
  • Benefits may include medical, dental, and vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs.
  • Paid time off may include vacation, sick leave, and paid holidays.
  • Available offerings vary by jurisdiction, job level, and date of hire.

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Forward Deployed
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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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