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Senior Solution Architect Lead

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8 hours ago
Pune, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Define and lead end-to-end solution architecture for regulatory reporting platforms.
  • Design scalable, low-latency, event-driven architectures using Kafka, Spark, Flink, and cloud-native technologies.
  • Drive delivery of complex regulatory initiatives, architecture governance, design reviews, performance optimization, and production readiness.
  • Partner with Business, Compliance, Operations, and Technology stakeholders to translate regulatory requirements into technical solutions.
  • Drive data quality, lineage, governance, and reporting controls across the platform.
  • Lead and mentor engineering teams while providing technical direction and architectural guidance.
  • Design and implement AI-powered solutions using LLMs, RAG architectures, AI agents, vector search, and related technologies.
  • Drive cloud adoption, DevOps automation, and engineering best practices.

Requirements

  • 13-15+ years of relevant experience in regulatory reporting, big data, cloud, AI/ML, enterprise architecture, capital markets, or RegTech.
  • 8+ years of hands-on Java development experience.
  • Strong expertise in Spring Boot, distributed systems, and enterprise application development.
  • Experience designing low-latency streaming architectures using Kafka, Spark, Flink, and the Hadoop ecosystem.
  • Experience with MongoDB, NoSQL databases, Hive, Impala, Elastic Search, Oracle, JMS, and TIBCO.
  • Experience with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, BitBucket, Jira, and release management processes.
  • Strong proficiency in Python and AI application development, including hands-on experience with GPT, Claude, Gemini, and similar LLMs.
  • Experience building AI agents using LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, or similar frameworks.
  • Expertise in RAG architectures, embeddings, vector databases, semantic search, prompt engineering, tool calling, workflow orchestration, and MCP integrations.
  • Experience with Pinecone, Chroma, FAISS, or equivalent vector databases, plus LoRA/QLoRA fine-tuning and the Hugging Face ecosystem.
  • Experience delivering large-scale regulatory reporting or capital markets solutions and understanding trade lifecycle events, order and execution processing, FIX, FpML, and ISO20022.
  • Proven ability to lead teams, manage stakeholders, align technology strategy with business objectives, and deliver under tight regulatory timelines.
  • Preferred qualifications include implementing AI solutions in regulated financial environments, exposure to RegTech platforms, and driving enterprise-wide data modernization and AI transformation initiatives.

Benefits

  • Full-time position.
  • Citi is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodation for applicants with disabilities.

Tech Stack

Apache FlinkApache HadoopApache HiveApache KafkaApache SparkAWSDockerElasticsearchJavaKubernetesMongoDBOpenShiftPythonSpring Boot
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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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