Senior Application Development Lead-Senior Vice President

Citi • Tampa, FL

3d • $141,440 - $212,160 • Onsite

About The Position

As the App Dev Senior Tech Lead Analyst, you will be responsible for the technical vision, architecture, and execution of this greenfield platform. You will lead a world-class engineering team from the ground up, while remaining deeply technical and contributing to the core development of the platform. This is a unique opportunity to blend strategic leadership with hands-on engineering to build a product that will have a direct and measurable impact on the front lines of our business.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 4+ years in a leadership role, leading high-performing engineering teams.
• Proven experience as a "player-coach" who can lead from the front, contribute to the codebase, and mentor junior and senior engineers.
• A strong track record of designing, building, and launching scalable, distributed, cloud-native platforms from the ground up.
• Experience in the financial services industry (Corporate Banking, Investment Banking, FinTech) is a significant plus. An understanding of banking workflows and data is highly desirable.
• Exceptional ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and to articulate a clear technical vision that aligns with business goals.
• Deep expertise in building production-grade agentic systems using GCP as primary (ADK, Vertex AI)
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing multi-agent architectures(task decomposition, coordination, orchestration, and agent-to-agent (A2A) interaction patterns)
• Experience integrating agents with enterprise tools and data sources using MCP or equivalent context-sharing patterns
• Building and leveraging knowledge graphs for context enrichment, reasoning, and workflow automation
• End-to-end RAG pipelines using enterprise search + vector stores (e.g., Elastic, Pinecone) with grounding, evaluation, and optimization
• Model evaluation, monitoring, prompt/version control, and Responsible AI / MRM compliance
• API- and event-driven integration of AI into enterprise workflows
• Databricks, Spark, Snowflake; streaming via Kafka
• Python (expert), Java/Spring Boot (enterprise standard), Go (plus)
• Microservices, domain-driven design, event-driven systems
• REST/gRPC; Apigee, Kong
• PostgreSQL/Oracle, MongoDB/Cassandra, Kafka
• Docker, Kubernetes (GKE/EKS)
• Terraform
• GitHub Actions, Jenkins
• Splunk, ELK, Prometheus, Grafana
• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
• Master’s degree preferred

Nice To Haves

• Experience in the financial services industry (Corporate Banking, Investment Banking, FinTech) is a significant plus. An understanding of banking workflows and data is highly desirable.
• Go (plus)

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, architecture, and hands-on development of a scalable, secure, and resilient agentic AI platform from concept to production.
• Serve as the lead engineer and technical authority, guiding critical decisions on frameworks, technologies, and infrastructure. You will be expected to write code, build prototypes, and lead by example.
• Partner closely with product management and senior business leaders in banking to define the product strategy and technical roadmap. Translate complex business needs into elegant technical solutions.
• Partner effectively with horizontal AI platform teams, enterprise architecture, and external vendor partners to leverage existing capabilities, influence roadmaps, and accelerate delivery.
• Drive the strategy for integrating and operationalizing Large Language Models (LLMs), agentic frameworks (e.g., Google ADK, LangChain,), and other AI/ML technologies to solve real-world banking challenges.
• Implement and champion best-in-class engineering practices, including CI/CD, automated testing, infrastructure-as-code, and robust monitoring to ensure enterprise-grade reliability.
• Define, measure, and report on key performance indicators (KPIs) related to platform adoption, user productivity, and the ultimate impact on business outcomes like wallet share growth.
• Ensure the platform adheres to the highest standards of data privacy, security, and regulatory compliance required in the banking industry.

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