Citi

Lead Forward Deployed AI Engineer (SVP)

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2 days ago
London, United KingdomStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Lead technical architecture and hands-on delivery of scalable, production-ready AI solutions within embedded business engineering teams.
  • Design, build, and deploy end-to-end agentic workflows using Python, ADK, LangGraph, and Arc.
  • Integrate AI agents with core banking systems, enterprise APIs, databases, microservices, and custom Model Context Protocol servers.
  • Design secure and resilient agent execution environments using controls including mTLS, OAuth2 token delegation, HashiCorp Vault, and OpenShift container security.
  • Lead architecture reviews, code reviews, security assessments, technical mentoring, and resolution of complex engineering challenges.
  • Develop reusable architectures, components, and engineering blueprints for Citi’s enterprise AI platform.
  • Ensure solutions meet security, regulatory, governance, risk-management, reliability, and software-quality requirements.

Requirements

  • Extensive software engineering experience with strong backend and distributed-systems expertise.
  • Proven experience building and deploying production-grade LLM and agentic AI applications.
  • Expert-level Python skills, including asyncio, state machines, and complex application workflow design.
  • Strong experience with distributed microservices, containerization, and orchestration technologies including Docker and OpenShift.
  • Experience integrating enterprise APIs, relational and NoSQL databases, and event-streaming platforms such as Kafka.
  • Practical knowledge of agentic AI architectures, multi-step reasoning, tool orchestration, and production LLM application development.
  • Deep understanding of application security, zero-trust principles, authentication, authorization, and secure tool-execution environments.
  • Experience leading technical design, influencing technical direction, mentoring engineers, and collaborating with senior technology and business stakeholders.

Benefits

  • Hybrid London working model with up to two days working from home per week.
  • Full-time employment with 27 days of annual leave plus bank holidays.
  • Discretionary annual performance-related bonus and annually reviewed base salary.
  • Private medical care, life insurance, employee assistance program, pension plan, and paid parental leave.
  • Special discounts for employees, family, and friends.

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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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