Senior Forward-Deployed AI Engineer & Architect

Citi; England; Ibrido; GBP 110.000 - 160.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

27 days annual leave (plus bank HOL)

Discretional annual bonus

Private Medical Care & Life Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Pension Plan

Paid Parental Leave

Special employee discounts

Descrizione del lavoro

Citi London is seeking a Lead / Staff Forward Deployed Engineer to drive technical discovery and architect end-to-end agentic workflows for flagship business use cases. You will lead complex integrations with core banking backends, mentor engineers, and design secure, scalable MCP servers, OpenAPI bridges, and gRPC/REST connectors.

The role offers a hybrid model (up to 2 days at home per week), a competitive base salary, and a benefits package including 27 days leave, private medical, pension,

Competenze

• 12+ years of professional software engineering experience
• 6+ years specializing in backend/distributed systems
• 2+ years hands-on experience building and deploying production LLM-powered applications

Mansioni

• Serve as the senior technical authority embedded within Line of Business squads—partnering with stakeholders to translate complex workflows into robust architectures.
• Architect, develop, and deploy production-grade agent reasoning loops and multi-agent workflows using Python, graph-based state engines, and enterprise runtimes.
• Lead rapid end-to-end prototyping sprints to validate business feasibility, user trust, and interaction ergonomics before full production buildout.
• Co-design HITL interfaces and feedback mechanisms with business users to ensure high user adoption and operational transparency.
• Lead the design of secure Model Context Protocol servers, OpenAPI bridges, and gRPC/REST connectors linking agents to core banking engines and microservices.
• Architect enterprise Retrieval-Augmented Generation pipelines with hybrid search, semantic caching, and knowledge graph integrations.
• Implement zero-trust security controls for agent execution (mTLS, OAuth2/OIDC), secret management, and sandboxed execution environments.
• Set coding standards, review architectures, and mentor engineers across the squad.
• Collaborate with architects to integrate automated evaluation testbeds and guardrails into deployment pipelines.
• Identify reusable agent modules and templates for contribution to core enterprise platforms.

Conoscenze

Backend/distributed systems

Hands-on AI & LLM

Leadership & mentoring

System architecture

Docker/Kubernetes/OpenShift

Security & zero-trust

Formazione

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Master’s degree preferred

Strumenti

LangGraph

AutoGen

CrewAI

Semantic Kernel

ADK

OpenAPI bridges

gRPC/REST

Descrizione del lavoro

Citi London is seeking a Lead / Staff Forward Deployed Engineer to drive technical discovery and architect end-to-end agentic workflows for flagship business use cases. You will lead complex integrations with core banking backends, mentor engineers, and design secure, scalable MCP servers, OpenAPI bridges, and gRPC/REST connectors.

The role offers a hybrid model (up to 2 days at home per week), a competitive base salary, and a benefits package including 27 days leave, private medical, pension,