Senior Engineering Manager

Citi; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 205,000 - 308,000; Full time

Job summary

Citi in Mississauga seeks an accomplished Senior Engineering Manager to head the Wholesale Lending Operations technology platforms and modernization initiatives. You will drive technology strategy, platform engineering, and execution for loan origination, servicing, and workflow automation across global clients.

Lead high‑performing teams, enforce modern architecture standards, and promote an inclusive culture while partnering with Operations, Product, Quantitative Analysts, and Global

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering or leadership experience.
• Strong Wholesale Lending domain background and loan platforms knowledge.
• Expertise in modern languages and distributed systems.
• Experience with microservices, Kafka, and event streaming.
• Cloud/DevOps with containers, CI/CD, and IaC practices.

Responsibilities

• Head technology strategy, platform engineering, and execution for WLO systems.
• Lead cross‑functional collaboration with product, risk, and architecture teams.
• Champion GenAI tooling, copilots, and automated CI/CD gating.
• Enforce scalable architectures, APIs, and resilient event-driven pipelines.
• Build and mentor high‑performing teams at the Mississauga site and globally.

Skills

Wholesale Lending

Distributed Systems

Microservices

CI/CD

GenAI tooling

Cloud

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

Java

Spring Boot

Python

React

Angular

Kafka

Docker

OpenShift

Kubernetes

CI/CD tools

Job description

We are seeking an exceptional Senior Engineering Manager to head the development and modernization of our Wholesale Lending Operations (WLO) Technology platforms and initiatives, based out of our Mississauga Technology Centre.

This is a high-impact leadership role responsible for driving the technology strategy, platform engineering, and execution behind Citi’s global wholesale lending and credit lifecycle ecosystem. You will lead teams delivering mission-critical platforms that power loan origination, servicing, syndication, collateral management, and workflow automation for the world’s largest corporate, institutional, and commercial clients.

Responsibilities:

• Regulatory, Risk & Compliance Excellence: Ensure platforms adhere to rigorous regulatory commitments, audit readiness, information security mandates, and architectural governance standards.
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Collaborate closely with Operations Leaders, Product Managers, Quantitative Analysts, Credit Risk Officers, and Global Architecture teams to align technology roadmaps with core business priorities.
• Champion AI-Driven Engineering: Pioneer and institutionalize the adoption of GenAI developer tools, coding copilots, and automated CI/CD gating to accelerate development throughput and code quality.
• Modern Architecture & Engineering Standards: Enforce best-in-class distributed systems engineering, API-first integrations, resilient event-driven pipelines (e.g., Kafka), and modern UI/micro-frontend architectures.
• Quality & Continuous Delivery: Cultivate a culture of test automation, shift-left security, chaos engineering, and zero-downtime release practices.
• Build & Mentor High-Performing Teams: Recruit, develop, and inspire top-tier software engineers, technical leads, and architects at the Mississauga site while orchestrating seamlessly with distributed global pods.
• Inclusive & Innovative Culture: Foster an engineering culture defined by technical curiosity, continuous learning, psychological safety, and clear career progression pathways.

Recommended Qualifications:

• 10+ years of relevant experience
• Domain Expertise: Strong background in Wholesale Lending. Familiarity with loan platforms is highly desirable.
• Full-Stack / Distributed Systems Mastery: Deep technical foundation in modern programming languages and frameworks (e.g., Java/Spring Boot, Python, React/Angular), microservices architecture, and event streaming (Kafka/MQ).
• Cloud & DevOps: Hands-on experience with containerization (Docker, OpenShift/Kubernetes), CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks, and modern infrastructure-as-code.
• GenAI & Tooling Enthusiasm: Active champion of modern developer tooling, GenAI productivity assistants, automated code analysis, and DevOps telemetry

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
• Master’s degree preferred

Job Family Group:

Technology

Job Family:

Applications Development

Time Type:

Full time

Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:

$145,100.00 - $217,700.00

Most Relevant Skills

Please see the requirements listed above.

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