Senior Forward‑Deployed AI Architect & Tech Lead

Citi; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days annual leave

Discretional annual bonus

Private Medical Care & Life Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Pension Plan

Paid Parental Leave

Employee discounts

Job summary

The Lead / Staff Forward Deployed Engineer at Citi London is a senior technical anchor embedded in Line of Business delivery pods. You will drive technical discovery, architect end-to-end agentic workflows for flagship use cases, and mentor engineers across the pod in software engineering excellence.

You will architect production-grade agent reasoning loops, enable rapid prototyping, and ensure secure integration with core banking engines, while upholding zero-trust security and governance.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of professional software engineering experience, 6+ years in backend/distributed systems.
• 2+ years hands-on experience building/ deploying production LLM-powered apps.
• Mastery of Python, Java or Go and experience with container orchestration.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical discovery and architect end-to-end agentic workflows.
• Lead complex integrations with core banking backends and mentor engineers.
• Design secure Model Context Protocol servers and enterprise connectors.

Skills

Python/Java/Go

Backend systems

Async IO

Kubernetes

LangGraph

Zero-trust security

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

LangGraph

OpenAPI Bridges

gRPC/REST

Docker/Kubernetes/OpenShift

Job description

The Lead / Staff Forward Deployed Engineer at Citi London is a senior technical anchor embedded in Line of Business delivery pods. You will drive technical discovery, architect end-to-end agentic workflows for flagship use cases, and mentor engineers across the pod in software engineering excellence.

You will architect production-grade agent reasoning loops, enable rapid prototyping, and ensure secure integration with core banking engines, while upholding zero-trust security and governance.