Discover your future at Citi Working at Citi is far more than just a job. A career with us means joining a team of approximately 219,000 dedicated people from around the globe. At Citi, you'll have the opportunity to grow your career, give back to your community and make a real impact. Job Overview About the Team: Build the next generation of agentic AI. The Applied AI and Agents Factory brings together ambitious engineers to turn advanced AI capabilities into production-ready solutions. Working directly with business and technology teams, you'll tackle complex engineering challenges, build intelligent agents and take ideas from initial concept through to live deployment. This is an opportunity to work at the cutting edge of AI engineering, developing systems that go beyond conversational tools to reason, plan and execute multi-step workflows. You'll take ownership of the full engineering lifecycle, from agent architecture and orchestration to enterprise integration, security and observability. With a strong focus on hands-on engineering, collaboration and rapid delivery, the Factory gives you the opportunity to solve challenging technical problems, influence architectural decisions and help shape reusable tools and engineering standards adopted across Citi. If you want to do more than experiment with AI - and build, deploy and scale systems that deliver real business value - this is where you can make your mark. About the Role: As a Lead Forward Deployed AI Engineer, you'll provide senior technical leadership within an embedded business engineering team, architecting and delivering sophisticated, production-grade AI agent systems for critical banking workflows. Combining hands-on engineering with architectural ownership, you'll lead complex integrations across enterprise platforms, design secure and reliable agentic architectures, and establish high engineering standards. You'll also mentor fellow engineers and help turn successful solutions into reusable enterprise capabilities, extending the impact of your work well beyond individual projects. Key Responsibilities Lead technical architecture and hands-on delivery within embedded business engineering teams, translating complex business challenges into scalable, production-ready AI solutions. Design, build and deploy end-to-end agentic workflows using Python, ADK, LangGraph and the Arc platform. Engineer integrations between AI agents and core banking systems, enterprise APIs, databases and microservices, including custom Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. Design secure, resilient agent execution environments, implementing controls such as mTLS, OAuth2 token delegation, HashiCorp Vault and OpenShift container security. Drive engineering excellence through architecture reviews, rigorous code reviews, security assessments and technical mentoring of engineers. Partner with principal architects and business stakeholders to solve complex technical challenges and establish effective design patterns. Contribute proven architectures, reusable components and engineering blueprints back to Citi's enterprise AI platform, accelerating delivery and adoption across the firm. Champion responsible AI engineering, ensuring solutions meet security, regulatory, governance and risk-management requirements. Skills
Lead Forward Deployed AI Engineer (SVP) - Citi employer: Citi
Citi is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work environment that fosters innovation and collaboration within the Equities Technology team. Employees benefit from cutting-edge technology, opportunities for professional growth, and a culture that values diversity and inclusion. With a focus on high-performance analytics and real-time data solutions, Citi empowers its engineers to make impactful contributions while enjoying a supportive atmosphere in a globally recognized financial institution.
