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The successful candidate will be expected to embrace and champion AI-augmented development practices, leveraging modern developer productivity tools to accelerate delivery, improve code quality, and drive innovation across the team.\nKey Responsibilities\n Lead the design and architecture of the Inventory Orchestration IaC platform, encompassing middleware (e.g., messaging brokers, web servers, application runtimes) and database components (e.g., relational, NoSQL, in-memory stores).\nDrive hands-on development of automation modules, playbooks, and platform tooling using Python, Ansible, Rust, and related technologies.\nArchitect scalable, maintainable IaC solutions that integrate with cloud and container platforms including OpenShift and AWS, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards.\nChampion AI-assisted development practices across the team - evaluate, onboard, and govern the use of tools such as GitHub Copilot, Devin, Cursor, and other AI coding assistants to accelerate development velocity and improve code quality.\nServe as a technology subject matter expert (SME) for internal and external stakeholders; provide technical direction across all firm-mandated controls, compliance initiatives, and group-wide projects.\nDefine and maintain a technology domain roadmap for the Inventory Orchestration platform, ensuring alignment with business and architectural goals - including a forward-looking strategy for AI tooling adoption within the engineering workflow.\nEnsure seamless integration of platform functions with broader infrastructure and application ecosystems, verifying that all components meet business and performance objectives.\nDefine necessary system enhancements to enable deployment of new products, process improvements, and evolving infrastructure patterns.\nRecommend and evaluate product customizations for system integrations and third-party tool adoption, including AI-powered developer productivity platforms.\nIdentify problem causality, business impact, and root causes of infrastructure-related incidents; drive resolution and preventative measures.\nApply broad knowledge of the infrastructure engineering specialty and translate business requirements into technical solutions, with awareness of competing technologies and industry best practices.\nMentor and advise junior and mid-level engineers, including coaching on responsible and effective use of AI development tools.\nInfluence engineering decisions across the group through advice, technical counsel, and facilitation of cross-team services and standards.\n Champion compliance and risk management - assess risk implications of engineering decisions, including those introduced by AI tooling (e.g., code provenance, IP considerations, security vulnerabilities in AI-generated code); escalate and manage control issues with full transparency.\nAdhere to Citi's policies and apply sound ethical judgment regarding personal conduct, business practices, and stakeholder engagement.\nRequired Qualifications\n6-10 years of relevant experience in an Engineering or Platform Engineering role, with a strong focus on infrastructure automation and IaC.\nHands-on proficiency in Python for automation scripting, tooling, and platform development.\nExtensive experience with Ansible - writing roles, playbooks, and dynamic inventories for middleware and database provisioning at scale.\nExperience with Rust for performance-critical systems components or platform tooling.\nWorking knowledge of container and cloud platforms, particularly OpenShift (Kubernetes) and AWS (e.g., EC2, S3, IAM, RDS, EKS).\nDemonstrated experience designing and implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions covering lifecycle management of middleware (e.g., Apache, Tomcat, IBM MQ, Kafka, Nginx) and database technologies (e.g., Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL).\nPractical experience with AI-powered developer tools, including one or more of the following:GitHub Copilot - AI pair programming, code completion, and inline documentation generation\nDevin - Autonomous AI software engineering agent for end-to-end task execution\nCursor - AI-native code editor with deep codebase context and intelligent refactoring\nChatGPT / Claude for Development - Leveraging LLMs for architecture design, code review, debugging, and documentation\n\nAbility to assess, govern, and apply AI coding tools responsibly, including awareness of security risks (prompt injection, insecure code suggestions), IP/licensing implications, and enterprise compliance requirements.\nExperience in Financial Services or a large-scale, complex, and/or global enterprise environment.\nProven Project Management experience - ability to lead workstreams, coordinate across teams, and manage delivery timelines.\nStrong analytic and diagnostic skills - ability to decompose complex technical problems, identify root causes, and devise actionable solutions.\nAbility to work effectively in a matrix environment and collaborate with geographically distributed, virtual teams.\nAbility to work independently, multitask, and take full ownership of components within a project or initiative.\nDemonstrated ability to perform under pressure, manage tight deadlines, and adapt to shifting requirements or priorities.\nProven track record of driving operational process change and improvement through technology.\nConsistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication skills.\nComprehensive knowledge of design metrics, analytics tools, benchmarking activities, and related reporting to identify and apply best practices.\nPreferred / Nice-to-Have Qualifications\nExperience with additional IaC or configuration management tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Salt).\nFamiliarity with CI/CD platforms (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub CI, Harness, Tekton/Lightspeed).\nUnderstanding of secrets management tools (e.g., HashiCorp Vault).\nExposure to observability and monitoring stacks (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, ELK).\nExperience contributing to or building internal developer platforms (IDPs).\nHands-on exposure to agentic AI frameworks (e.g., LangChain, AutoGen, CrewAI) and their applicability to infrastructure automation workflows.\nExperience integrating AI code review tools (e.g., CodeRabbit, Sourcery, SonarQube AI) into CI/CD pipelines.\nFamiliarity with LLM-based documentation generation tools (e.g., Mintlify, Swimm) for maintaining platform documentation at scale.\nKnowledge of cybersecurity principles as they apply to infrastructure automation, IaC pipelines, and AI-generated code validation.\nExperience with GitOps workflows and version-controlled infrastructure pipelines.\nEducation\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field; 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