Application Development Group Manager - Senior Vice President

Citi; Maharashtra; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Citi is seeking an Applications Development Group Manager (SVP) to lead architecture and delivery of enterprise AI platforms with a focus on Generative AI and agentic systems.

The role requires 10+ years in full-stack and distributed backend leadership, deep hands-on expertise in AI architectures, and proven experience guiding global technology teams.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in full-stack and distributed backend leadership.
• Proven experience delivering large-scale enterprise software.
• Strong background in AI governance and MLOps concepts.
• Experience with multi-agent architectures and agentic workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and delivery of enterprise AI platforms.
• Define and enforce coding standards, performance, and reliability.
• Drive AI governance, model lifecycle, and security practices.
• Mentor global engineering teams and scale engineering practices.

Skills

Generative AI architectures

Multi-agent frameworks

LLMOps & AI governance

Java/J2EE enterprise stack

RESTful APIs & microservices

Distributed backend engineering

Prompt engineering & context

Containerization & orchestration

Python (FastAPI, AsyncIO)

Cloud & infrastructure familiarity

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes (OpenShift/EKS/GKE)

LangGraph

Google ADK

OpenAI Agents SDK

RAG pipelines tooling

Job description

The Applications Development Group Manager (SVP) will serve as a senior engineering leader and technical authority responsible for driving the architecture, delivery, and scaling of enterprise-grade software platforms with a core focus on Generative AI and Agentic AI systems. The ideal candidate blends 10+ years of robust full-stack and distributed backend engineering leadership with deep hands‑on expertise in frontier AI architectures, multi-agent frameworks, LLMOps, and enterprise AI governance.

Core Software Engineering & Architecture Leadership

• Hands‑on Engineering Leadership: Extensive track record in designing, architecting, and delivering large‑scale, high‑throughput enterprise software applications.
• Backend & Enterprise Stack: Deep mastery of Java/J2EE enterprise ecosystem, multithreading, concurrency patterns, memory management, and asynchronous event‑driven architectures.
• Modern Web & API Engineering: Proven experience in modern web technologies (HTML5, CSS3, React.js/modern JavaScript frameworks) and RESTful API design, microservices architecture, and API governance.
• Engineering Fundamentals: Strong command of Object‑Oriented Design (OOPS/SOLID), Design Patterns, Data Structures, Algorithms, and distributed computing principles.
• Generative AI, Foundation Models & Context Engineering
• Foundation Models & LLM Fundamentals: Deep theoretical and practical understanding of foundation models, Large Language Models (LLMs), embeddings, tokenization mechanics, attention mechanisms, and context-window optimization.
• Advanced Context Engineering: Hands‑on mastery of production context management, including dynamic context layering, prompt chaining, context compression, memory pruning/offloading, and session‑state persistence to maximize token efficiency, provenance, and output reliability.
• Advanced Prompt Engineering: Expertise in few‑shot prompting, directional stimulus prompting, programmatic prompt pipelines, and automated prompt optimization frameworks.
• Agentic AI, Multi‑Agent Orchestration & Interoperability
• Multi‑Agent System Architecture: Proven experience architecting and deploying production‑grade agentic workflows using frameworks such as Google Agent Development Kit (ADK), LangGraph or OpenAI Agents SDK.
• Orchestration Patterns: Practical implementation of multi‑agent patterns, including hierarchical supervisor/worker topologies, sequential planning, dynamic routing, reflection loops, and peer‑to‑peer collaboration.
• Agent Harness Engineering & Tooling: Strong grasp of agent harness mechanics, execution boundaries, sandboxing, feedback loops, human‑in‑the‑loop (HITL) integration, and deterministic tool execution.
• Interoperability Protocols: Expertise in emerging agent communication and integration protocols, specifically:
• Model Context Protocol (MCP) for standardized tool, data, and service integration.
• Agent2Agent (A2A) protocols for inter-agent communication and task delegation across distributed systems.
• Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) & Knowledge Graphs
• Advanced RAG Architectures: Deep hands‑on experience designing production RAG pipelines utilizing hybrid search, re‑ranking models, parent‑document/hierarchical chunking, multi‑vector representations, and self‑corrective RAG mechanisms.
• Vector Databases & Search Engines: Proficiency with enterprise vector storage solutions
• LLMOps, Cloud & Infrastructure
• Containerization & Orchestration: Production mastery of Docker containerization and Kubernetes (OpenShift/EKS/GKE) cluster management, auto‑scaling, and GPU/accelerator allocation.
• DevOps & LLMOps Pipelines: Deep knowledge of CI/CD automation, model registry workflows, automated regression testing, versioning (Git, DVC), continuous integration pipelines for prompts/models.
• Modern Python Web Frameworks: Strong proficiency in Python with direct development experience in modern asynchronous frameworks (FastAPI, AsyncIO) and high‑performance data ingestion pipelines

Recommended Qualifications:

• 13+ years of relevant experience
• Experience in applications development
• Experience in management
• Experience managing global technology teams
• Working knowledge of industry practices and standards
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication

Education:

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

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Job Family Group:

Technology

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Job Family:

Applications Development

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Time Type:

Full time

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Most Relevant Skills

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

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