Engineering Head - Public Cloud Infrastructure Services - Director - Citi

ZipRecruiter; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global financial services firm based in London is seeking a Public Cloud Foundational Services Engineering Head. This role requires expertise in public cloud strategy and engineering, with responsibilities including leading a team, driving innovation, and ensuring compliance. Good leadership and automation skills are essential for enhancing client satisfaction and business value. The company offers a hybrid working model and comprehensive benefits package.

Benefits

27 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Discretionary annual performance related bonus

Private Medical Care & Life Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Pension Plan

Paid Parental Leave

Special discounts for employees, family, and friends

Access to learning and development resources

Qualifications

• Proven track record of engineering leadership.
• Hands-on experience with modern Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools.
• Deep understanding of public cloud services adoption.

Responsibilities

• Own and execute the public cloud infrastructure strategy.
• Lead and grow a team of cloud specialists.
• Drive process improvements and automation initiatives.

Skills

Public cloud expertise

Leadership experience

Automation skills

Agile and DevOps mindset

Software development acumen

Tools

Terraform

Jenkins

Ansible

Job description

Job Description

Discover your future at Citi
Working at Citi is far more than just a job. A career with us means joining a team of more than 230,000 dedicated people from around the globe. At Citi, you'll have the opportunity to grow your career, give back to your community and make a real impact.

Overview

About the Opportunity
Are you a seasoned technology leader with a passion for building cutting-edge enterprise products and a hands-on approach to engineering? Join Citi's Cloud Technology Services (CTS) team and be part of our commitment to transform Citi technology leveraging game-changing Cloud capabilities to drive agility, efficiency, and innovation.

We're providing our businesses with a competitive edge by leveraging public cloud scale and enabling new infrastructure economics. As the Public Cloud Foundational Services Engineering Head, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and executing our public cloud strategy.

You will be part of a team that continues to deliver big! From building cloud base High Performance Compute (HPC) platform to run huge risk calculation, enabling Citi to leverage GenAI at scale, all the way to enabling payments solutions, this team is at the forefront of innovation.

What You'll Do

• Lead the Charge: Own the public cloud infrastructure strategy and its execution, enabling Citi's secure and enterprise-scale adoption of public cloud. You will provide technical authority for all foundational services.
• Build and Inspire: Lead and grow a team of deeply technical cloud specialists and full-stack software developers, fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration.
• Innovate and Automate: Drive client satisfaction and business value by identifying and developing process improvement and automation initiatives.
• Partner and Collaborate: Establish partnerships across the broader Citi technology landscape to align with business growth initiatives and priorities.
• Engineering Excellence: Define measurable success criteria and routinely assess service availability and reliability.
• Champion Compliance: Drive compliance with applicable standards, policies, and regulations, always assessing risk with Citi's reputation, clients, and assets in mind.

Who You Are

You are a talented technologist with a proven track record of engineering leadership, a deep expertise in public cloud, and a passion for engineering best practices. You have:

• Cloud Expertise: A deep understanding of public cloud services adoption at scale. Expert-level understanding of AWS/GCP infrastructure services across:
• Landing Zones & Projects/Accounts - AWS Control Tower, GCP Resource Manager, etc.
• Network - AWS Transit Gateway, GCP Shared VPC, AWS Route53, GCP Cloud DNS, etc.
• Observability - AWS OpenSearch, GCP Monitoring/Traces, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, etc.
• Automation Prowess: Hands-on experience with modern Infrastructure as Code (IaC) automation tools and frameworks (Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible, etc.).
• Software Development Acumen: A software development background is highly desirable, specifically architecting or developing microservices using Java/Spring Boot to automate infrastructure deployment.
• Agile and DevOps Mindset: Familiarity with Agile Development, DevOps, and SRE practices.
• Strategic Thinking: Experience evaluating complex requirements and rationalizing them into a consistent service offering.
• Leadership Experience: A proven track record of managing a diverse, inclusive, and high-performing Engineering team.
• Engineering Excellence: Understanding of Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Behavior Driven Development (BDD).

We offer

By joining Citi London, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), but also receive a competitive base salary (which is annually reviewed), and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits such as:

• 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• A discretionary annual performance related bonus
• Private Medical Care & Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Pension Plan
• Paid Parental Leave
• Special discounts for employees, family, and friends
• Access to an array of learning and development resources

Visit our Global Benefits page to learn more.
Alongside these benefits Citi is committed to ensuring our workplace is where everyone feels comfortable coming to work as their whole self, every day. We want the best talent around the world to be energized to join us, motivated to stay and empowered to thrive.

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Job Family Group: Technology

Job Family: Technology Management

Time Type: Full time

Most Relevant Skills Please see the requirements listed above.

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

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