Lead Forward Deployed AI Engineer (SVP)

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.

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.

What you'll do:

• 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.

Full details and application on the official Citi careers page.