Senior Engineering Manager at Citi

Citi; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 145,000 - 218,000; Full time

Job summary

Citi in Mississauga, Canada, seeks an Senior Engineering Manager to lead the development and modernization of Wholesale Lending Operations technology platforms at the Mississauga Technology Centre.

You will drive strategy, platform engineering, and execution for loan origination, servicing, and related workflows, while mentoring high-performing teams in a global context.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant engineering experience in financial tech.
• Strong domain expertise in Wholesale Lending.
• Experience with modern tech stack and microservices.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled tooling desirable.

Responsibilities

• Lead technology strategy, platform engineering, and execution for WLO platforms.
• Collaborate with Operations, Product, Analytics, Risk, and Architecture teams.
• Champion GenAI tooling and automated CI/CD gating to improve throughput.
• Ensure regulatory, security, and architectural governance.
• Build and mentor Mississauga-based engineering teams and cross-geo pods.
• Foster an inclusive, learning-focused engineering culture.

Skills

Wholesale Lending

Distributed Systems

Java/Spring Boot

Python

React/Angular

Kafka

GenAI Enthusiasm

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

Docker

OpenShift

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

Job Overview

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

Full Time Salary Range

$145,100.00 - $217,700.00

Other Relevant Skills

For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

Automated Processing and AI

We use automated processing, including artificial intelligence, for our legitimate business interests (or our reasonable and appropriate business purposes) to identify and align the candidate's skills and abilities with a specific job opening. Additionally, if you so choose, or consent, we can match your skills and abilities to other suitable roles at Citi. Importantly, all our hiring processes and decisions, including determining your suitability for a role, are conducted, checked, and decided by individuals. Our automated processing and AI do not involve relying on automatic or autonomous decision-making. Please refer to any Jurisdictional Considerations, with specific provisions for your country (where relevant) for further details.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Citi is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law.