Application Development Group Manager - Senior Vice President

Citi; Pune District; On-site; INR 5,000,000 - 8,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Citi is looking for a senior Applications Development Group Manager to lead architecture, delivery, and scaling of enterprise-grade software with a core focus on Generative AI and agentic AI systems. The role demands 10+ years in full-stack and distributed backend leadership with hands-on AI expertise.

The ideal candidate will guide global technology teams, drive governance, and champion cutting-edge AI architectures and platforms within Citi.

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
• Clear and concise written and verbal communication

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and delivery of enterprise software platforms
• Drive Generative AI and agentic AI initiatives
• Provide hands-on engineering leadership across backend and frontend tech stacks
• Establish governance, best practices, and performance standards
• Mentor senior engineers and manage global teams

Skills

Java/J2EE

RESTful API

React.js

OO/SOLID

LLMOps

Generative AI

Agentic AI

Kubernetes

Docker

Python FastAPI

Multi-Agent Systems

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Google ADK

LangGraph

OpenAI Agents SDK

Job description

• Experience in applications development

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.

1. 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

Job Family Group:

Technology

Job Family:

Applications Development

Time Type:

Full time

Most Relevant Skills

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