# Director - Technical Engineering Lead (Full stack)

Citi's Payments Technology team is hiring a Senior Engineering Lead to architect and lead a critical payment platform that sits at the intersection of engineering ambition and real-world financial impact. As a Senior Engineering Lead, you will direct multiple engineering teams responsible for designing, building, and operating an active-active, resilient platform architecture that processes payment traffic with very low latency. This is a rare opportunity for a hands-on engineering leader to own a multi-year technical roadmap, build and scale a world-class global engineering organization, and deliver AI-accelerated, cloud-native systems that operate with the highest standards of availability across multiple geographies and regulatory environments. If you are energized by hard engineering problems and want your work to matter at a global level, this role is built for you. Responsibilities Own the technical strategy and multi-year roadmap for the payment platform, making architectural decisions that shape how a high-throughput, multi-consumer ecosystem evolves. Direct the design and build of an active-active, resilient platform architecture using low-latency technologies to maintain

- **Id**: 3970933
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/citi-director-technical-engineering-lead-full-stack>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: head
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Pune, India, Chennai, India
- **Countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 15
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T23:14:06Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 5
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5652
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Cards & Card Issuing, Wealth Management & Financial Advisors, Payment Processing & Gateways, Investment Banking & M&A Advisory

## Company

- **Id**: 7841
- **Name**: Citi
- **Domain**: citi.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/citi>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 98
- **Open postings**: 557
- **Ghost share**: 0.009
- **Stale share**: 0.206
- **Repost share**: 0.068
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 9
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Technologies

- **Agile** — Optional: no
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **gRPC** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Spring Boot** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **OpenShift** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 5

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 15
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **India** — Iso: IN; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T16:03:40Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 77
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 0.9
- **Age days**: 5
- **Expected fill days**: 9
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:mid, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T00:55:58Z

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