Cloud Application Engineering Lead -Senior Vice President

Citi; Chennai District; On-site; INR 4,200,000 - 6,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Citi seeks a Senior Enterprise Architect to lead architecture, engineering and production delivery of large-scale enterprise applications on AWS. The role requires deep expertise in cloud, data, integration and DevSecOps, with strong leadership and governance capabilities.

You will mentor engineers, align technology with business strategy, and drive standards across multiple teams in a global financial services environment.

Qualifications

• 13+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience in implementing projects.
• Experience in systems analysis and programming of software applications.
• Demonstrated SME in area(s) of Applications Development.
• Demonstrated knowledge of client core business functions.
• Demonstrated leadership, project management, and development skills.
• Relationship and consensus building skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, engineering and production delivery of large-scale enterprise apps on AWS.
• Own end-to-end application architecture across backend and frontend, including API patterns and security.

Skills

AWS & Cloud Architecture

Backend & Distributed Systems

Data Architecture

Full-Stack Architecture

Platform Engineering

Integration & Event-Driven

Scale & Resilience

Engineering Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

Kubernetes/EKS

Terraform/IaC

CI/CD

Kafka/MSK

MongoDB Atlas

Job description

Responsibilities

Proven experience leading the architecture, engineering and production delivery of large-scale, highly available enterprise applications on AWS, AWS certified with strong hands-on architectural depth across application, cloud, data, integration and DevSecOps.

Key capabilities

• AWS & Cloud Architecture: Deep experience designing production applications on AWS using EKS, MSK/Kafka, networking, IAM, ALB/API Gateway, S3, KMS, Secrets Manager and VPC endpoints, including multi-AZ resilience and disaster recovery.
• Backend & Distributed Systems: Strong Java/Spring Boot, microservices, REST/event-driven APIs and distributed-system design, including concurrency, caching, resiliency, idempotency and failure/recovery patterns.
• Data Architecture: Experience with MongoDB Atlas and relational/data-lake platforms, including data modelling, indexing, consistency, performance and high-volume operational workloads.
• Full-Stack Architecture: Ability to own end-to-end application architecture across backend and modern Angular/React frontends, including API/BFF patterns, authentication, performance and scalability.
• Platform Engineering & DevSecOps: Strong Kubernetes/EKS, containers, Terraform/IaC, CI/CD, observability, autoscaling, SRE, security and production engineering experience.
• Integration & Event-Driven Architecture: Proven delivery using Kafka/MSK, enterprise APIs and asynchronous/event-driven integration patterns across complex enterprise ecosystems.
• Scale & Resilience: Demonstrable experience building systems processing high transaction/event volumes, supporting thousands of users and meeting demanding latency, availability, resiliency and recovery requirements.
• Engineering Leadership: Proven ownership of architecture and engineering strategy, technical governance and standards, mentoring senior engineers/engineering leads, resolving complex production problems and influencing senior technology and business stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 13+ years of relevant experience
• Experience in implementing projects
• Experience in systems analysis and programming of software applications
• Demonstrated Subject Matter Expert (SME) in area(s) of Applications Development
• Demonstrated knowledge of client core business functions
• Demonstrated leadership, project management, and development skills
• Relationship and consensus building skills

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

Please see the requirements listed above.

Other Relevant Skills

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

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