Digital Software Engineering Lead

Citi • Irving, TX

4d • $138,720 - $208,080 • Onsite

About The Position

The Digital Software Engineering Lead is a strategic professional who stays abreast of developments within their field and contributes to directional strategy by considering their application in their job and the business. This role is recognized as a technical authority within an area of the business and requires basic commercial awareness. Typically, multiple individuals within the business provide the same level of subject matter expertise. Developed communication and diplomacy skills are essential for guiding, influencing, and convincing others, particularly colleagues in other areas and occasional external customers. This role has a significant impact on the area through complex deliverables and provides advice and counsel related to the technology or operations of the business. The work impacts an entire area, which eventually affects the overall performance and effectiveness of the sub-function/job family.

Requirements

• 6+ years of relevant experience in an Apps Development role with Python as programming language
• Experience in building Agentic AI solutions leveraging LangGraph, ADK, etc.
• Skilled at evaluating Agentic AI solutions and understanding of what should be tracked per solution
• Expertise in all aspects of technology by understanding broader patterns and techniques as they apply to Citi’s internal and external cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Akamai)
• Lead resources and serve as a functional SME across the company through advanced knowledge of algorithms, data structures, distributed systems, networking, use of knowledge and experience to lead, architect, and drive broader adoption forward.
• Acquire relevant technology and financial industry skills (AWS PWS) and understand all aspects of NGA technology – including innovative approaches and new opportunities.
• Demonstrate knowledge on automating code quality, code performance, unit testing, and build processing in the CI/CD.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree preferred

Responsibilities

• Leads the execution and delivery of large-scale efforts or multiple smaller initiatives, serving as a development lead for most medium and large projects, including expertise with application development methodologies and standards for program analysis, design, coding, testing, debugging, and implementation.
• Demonstrates a strong understanding of client core business functions.
• Supports situations where end-user consultation is required to identify system function specifications and incorporate them into overall system design and delivery, utilizing comprehensive knowledge of multiple technology areas to achieve technological objectives.
• Works independently with little or no guidance from more senior developers, making decisions that have a significant, measurable impact on business goals.
• Plays a significant role in team discussions with TPMs and engineering managers to determine potential risks to a schedule.
• Assists in planning and managing application development assignments, including large budgets, cross-functional projects, or multiple projects, by effectively understanding and analyzing both technical and business risks and impact.
• Effectively communicates risks to business owners to enable informed decisions.
• Provides guidance on architecturally significant efforts during the preplanning phase, ensuring principles and best practices are followed prior to work initiation, closely monitoring and evaluating Digital roadmaps, including impacts to support upcoming journeys.
• Publishes design review extensions and provides documented guidance aligned to sprint plans and timelines.
• Participates in the design review board to focus on the design process, search for generic patterns, and share best practices across the organization.
• Publishes design patterns across lines of business and domain commonalities, driving design reviews for Next Gen Architecture (NGA) and Plan of Record (POR) projects, supporting design principles and best practices.
• Participates in microservices and NGA code reviews.
• Empowers SDEs and their teams through mentoring and coaching.
• Possesses a comprehensive understanding of the business domain, systems, and products, including accountabilities, boundaries, limitations, scale factors, and the rationale behind architectural decisions.
• Provides a long-term perspective for business and technology choices, using technical judgment to vet architecture as required.
• Directs teams on developing and delivering systems that are efficient with resource usage (hardware, runtime, performance, load, and memory requirements).
• Responsible for broader design decisions and development of long-term strategies that significantly influence the development process and standards.
• Manages Design Reviews for Agile and Plan of Record (POR) projects, oversees Code Reviews for Next Gen Architecture (NGA) projects, and elaborates, promotes, and communicates Design Patterns applicable to NGA architectures and solutions.
• Champions architectural guidance to SDEs based on best practices and in alignment with CTO guidelines and platform.
• Drives clarity and works with complete independence when business and/or technical strategy is not defined.
• Provides architectural guidance and conducts design reviews and code reviews based on projects assigned to the LOB; product definition and technical planning are out of scope.
• Accountable for overall strategy and driving teams inside and outside the organization to deliver expected results, engaging in mindful discussions with business and technical stakeholders to lead to timely decisions.
• Participates in discussions to drive smart trade-off decisions balancing efforts, delivery timelines, features, and technical constraints; identifies and removes blockers and finds paths forward in challenging situations.
• Creates plans with a clear path to delivery, solving for dependencies between agile and waterfall delivery efforts, and helps teams organize for delivery while maximizing resources for the greater good of the Digital organization.
• Understands engineering best practices and applies them to the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Elaborates, brings, and communicates clear metrics on Design Reviews, Code Reviews, CI/CD, and Design Patterns adoption.
• Communicates progress, anticipates bottlenecks, provides escalation management, and identifies, assesses, tracks, and mitigates issues/risks at multiple levels; recognizes discordant views and participates in constructive dialogue to resolve them.
• Demonstrates the ability to implement continuous improvement and the induction of new technology, with examples of influence in scrum teams beyond their own area of focus.
• Appropriately assesses risk when business decisions are made, considering the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients, and assets by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules, and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment, and escalating, managing, and reporting control issues with transparency.

Benefits

• medical, dental & vision coverage
• 401(k)
• life, accident, and disability insurance
• wellness programs
• paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior