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Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management. Citi enables clients to achieve their strategic financial objectives by providing them with cutting-edge ideas, best-in-class products and solutions, and unparalleled access to capital and liquidity.\nThe Team:\nCloud Technology Services (CTS) is responsible for looking after Citi’s Cloud programme across Public and Private Cloud. It has several new and exciting programmes utilising cutting edge cloud and container technologies, with a view to ensuring that our offerings are best in class and enable our wider business lines and clients alike.\nThe job:\nThis role sits within the newly formed GenAI Security team, which is responsible for ensuring, maintaining, and improving the security of our GenAi Prompt security capabilities within the firm. You will be responsible for engineering solutions that strengthen and broaden our security capabilities in an environment that is changing daily whilst also working with vendor products to achieve the same aims. 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