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Transitioning beyond tactical task execution, the C13 Engineering Lead operates as a strategic visionary, organization-wide framework architect, and senior force multiplier.\nThis role is responsible for driving the multi-year engineering strategy and architectural modernization across a hybrid ecosystem of 190+ applications-bridging mission-critical legacy mainframe backbones with next-generation containerized cloud platforms and automated enterprise CI/CD pipelines. The Engineering Lead directly oversees enterprise-scale initiatives across dozens of agile squads, spearheads financial and infrastructure cost optimization, owns Senior Management Team (SMT) risk and governance metrics, and champions Citi’s Developer Manifesto to foster an engineering-first culture.\nResponsibilities:\nA. Strategic Technical Leadership & Direction\nMulti-Year Strategy Definition: Define, articulate, and execute multi-year technical roadmaps aligned with business objectives and enterprise architectural standards.\nEngineering Frameworks & Standards: Establish and standardize organization-wide engineering blueprints, design patterns, testing automation frameworks, and development guidelines across dozens of distributed squads.\nB. Architecture, Scale & Technical Complexity Management\nHybrid Ecosystem Ownership: Oversee the architectural health, scalability, and resilience of a portfolio encompassing 190+ applications spanning legacy mainframe transaction processors, microservices, container platforms, and cloud-native solutions.\nCloud & Platform Modernization: Lead complex cloud migration strategies, decomposing monolithic legacy components into modern, containerized private/hybrid cloud microservices.\n Toolchain & CI/CD Pipeline Evolution: Standardize modern CI/CD automation, trunk-based development, and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) toolchains across all application development teams.\nC. Financial Impact & Platform Cost Optimization\n Strategic Decommissioning: Drive end-to-end technical execution for legacy platform decommissions (e.g., Bitbucket migrations, deprecated middleware, end-of-life infrastructure) to eliminate redundant operational overhead and licensing fees.\nInfrastructure Optimization: Architect and migrate high-throughput workloads to cost-efficient private cloud infrastructure, actively monitoring compute utilization, storage efficiency, and capacity planning.\n Financial Accountability: Translate engineering choices into direct financial efficiencies, maximizing return on technology investments (ROTI).\nD. Senior Management Team (SMT) Risk, Governance & Quality Ownership\n Executive Metrics & SMT Reporting: Directly own, track, and present engineering quality, delivery velocity, and risk posture metrics to the Senior Management Team (SMT).\n Release on Demand (ROD) Adoption: Lead organizational transformation to achieve and sustain 100% Release on Demand (ROD) capabilities across squads through automated gates and progressive delivery.\nDORA Stability & Resilience: Establish and maintain industry-leading DORA (DevOps Research and Assessment) metrics:\nDeployment Frequency (On-Demand / Continuous)\nLead Time for Changes (< 24-48 hours)\nChange Failure Rate (< 5%)\nMean Time to Restore (MTTR) (High resilience and automated recovery)\nRisk & Controls Compliance: Ensure strict adherence to information security, regulatory compliance, vulnerability management, and audit mandates across all application lifecycles.\nE. Enterprise-Wide Sphere of Influence & Stakeholder Alignment\nCross-Departmental Synergy: Function as a trusted advisor and force multiplier across application development teams, QA/testing organizations, infrastructure operations, product management, and vendor partners.\n Citi Developer Manifesto Champion: Propagate and embed core tenets of the Citi Developer Manifesto, driving developer experience (DevEx) enhancements, automated testing rigor, and continuous learning. \nTalent Development & Coaching: Mentor lead engineers and senior developers, guiding technical talent through structured promotion paths and engineering leadership excellence.\nQualifications:\nBS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.\n12+years of experience working in DevOps and automation\nMinimum 10 years of experience in CI/CD, Jenkins, Build Pipeline, DevOps Automation, Monitoring\nMinimum 4 Years’ Experience in Kubernetes/Cloud CI/CD pipeline and Admin activities\nPrimary Skill required in Distributed and NexGen DevOps Tools\nSecondary Skill Experience in Mainframe DevOps is added advantage\nBlue Optima, CheckMarx, SonarQube, Blackduck, Python, Shell Script\nKnowledge in Middleware Deployments in WebSphere, Tomcat and WebLogic\nDevOps experience in API development in Next gen Infra\nExperience in Handling Open shift platform/Public Cloud DevOps Activities\nKnowledge with any of Commercial cards and Modernization is added advantage\nCapable of driving Solutions end to end for any DevOps solutions\nDevOps testing and Programming Knowledge is added advantage.\nArtificial Intelligence/SRE/No Ops\nApp/Performance Monitoring tools like Splunk and Appd etc\nDevOps Coding Knowledge like python, Shell Script or any other DevOps Scripting tool is Mandatory\nTechnical / Functional Proficiency:\nCompetency in understanding strategic imperatives, understanding customer experience, reimagine business processes, embrace agility, continuous stakeholder collaboration, strategic use of data, understand technology, embrace product management.\nExperience in working with Vision Plus Credit Card System with Digital Business Experience around Wallets, API, 3D Secure, etc.\nMust have experience in Microsoft tools, i.e., Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio and SharePoint\nExcellent functional and product solution/design skills on Core Credit Cards VisionPlus modules\nGood knowledge on end-to-end cards features and across all applications\nExcellent documentation skills in preparing business requirement, functional specs/design, use case and functional flow documents.\nExperience with SDLC methodologies and structured systems analysis and design\nResponsible for interacting with the business, technology teams, partner systems and card processors in understanding business functionality / requirements\nCapable of knowledge gathering / reverse engineering existing functionality of application platforms through interaction with users and technical teams\nEffectively documenting functionality and requirements for use by technology teams\nCommunicating functionality and requirements effectively to development teams\nSupport functional design preparation and review with technology teams\nAssist testing teams in preparation and reviews of functional test scenarios\nExperience in delivering Solution Design and Process flows\nProvides all required status updates to project team, users, and various levels of management as appropriate\nExperience in Agile Methodology\nLeadership Skills:\nExcellent organization skills, attention to detail, and ability to multi-task\nExperience in Financial industry i.e., Credit Cards\nDemonstrated sense of responsibility and capability to deliver quickly\nProcess focused to ensure efficiency, compliance and control\nGood knowledge on productization and global code base\nExcellent communication skills. Clearly articulating and documenting technical and functional specifications is a key requirement.\nProactive problem-solver\nRelationship builder and team player\nFlexibility to work in multiple complex projects and changing priorities\n------------------------------------------------------\nJob Family Group:\nTechnology------------------------------------------------------\nJob Family:\nApplications Development------------------------------------------------------\nTime Type:\nFull time------------------------------------------------------\nMost Relevant Skills\nPlease see the requirements listed above.------------------------------------------------------\nOther Relevant Skills\nFor complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.------------------------------------------------------\nCiti is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, 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