Senior Engineering Manager - Regulatory Reporting

Citigroup Inc.; Chennai District; On-site; INR 4,200,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Citi is seeking an accomplished Senior Vice President, Engineering Manager to guide risk and capital technology platforms. You will lead multiple engineering teams, drive technical direction, and mentor engineers while partnering with senior stakeholders on strategic initiatives.

You will shape engineering practices, evaluate AI‑assisted development tools, and own resourcing and budgeting to deliver high‑quality regulatory reporting software.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience designing and developing robust, scalable applications.
• Minimum of 5 years in leadership, overseeing multiple teams.
• Experience leveraging AI/ML tools for large-scale software.
• Banking domain experience; Capital Markets/Credit Risk knowledge is a plus.
• Experience architecting highly available, scalable, resilient applications.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple software teams and oversee personnel decisions.
• Provide technical leadership and ensure architecture/design adherence.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and AI tools to enhance products and processes.
• Manage resources, budget, and planning, with senior stakeholder communication.
• Coach mid-level/junior engineers and raise engineering capability.
• Drive continuous improvements in standards and processes.
• Collaborate with global teams to deliver software solutions.

Skills

Java Core

Spring Framework

AI tools

Databases

Linux scripting

DevOps/SDLC

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

Jenkins

SonarQube

JIRA

Job description

The Opportunity

Citi is seeking an accomplished Senior Vice President, Engineering Manager to lead high-performance development teams within our Risk & Capital Technology organization. This role sits at the heart of how Citi manages counterparty exposure — you will own the technical direction and people leadership behind the software platform that Risk Officers & Finance Controllers rely on every day to manage the firm's exposure to financial institutions, governments, and corporates that trade with Citi.

This is an opportunity to combine deep engineering leadership with strategic influence — shaping not just how software gets built, but how the team evolves to meet the demands of a modern, AI-Augmented development environment.

Your Role and Impact

As the Engineering Manager for Risk & Capital Technology, you will lead multiple teams of software engineers and analysts, providing both the technical oversight and people leadership needed to deliver a complete Regulatory Reporting platform. You will ensure the architecture and design of every application under your remit meets Citi's engineering standards, while also acting as a hands‑on advisor and coach to the engineers building it.

Your impact will extend beyond day-to-day delivery. You will help define how the team works — introducing modern engineering practices, evaluating and adopting emerging technologies and AI-assisted development tools, and building the technical capability of the broader organization. You will also carry real accountability for resourcing, budget, and planning, while representing the team's technical direction to senior stakeholders across the firm and, where needed, external parties.

Responsibilities:

• Manage multiple teams of professionals to accomplish established goals and conduct personnel duties for team (e.g. performance evaluations, hiring and disciplinary actions)
• Provide technical leadership and development oversight to the wider team of Software Engineers/Analyst. Ensure application design adheres to the appropriate architectural and design patterns in the systems.
• Identify and evaluate emerging technologies, frameworks, and AI tools (Devin, Co‑Pilot etc) that can enhance our credit risk management product offerings and development processes.
• Provide strategic influence and exercise control over resources, budget management and planning while monitoring end results.
• Serve as advisor or coach to mid‑level/junior developers and analysts, helping build the overall engineering capabilities of the team.
• Drive continuous improvement of engineering standards and processes to make the team more capable and efficient.
• Collaborate effectively with a large, global team of software engineers, business analysts, DevOps, and support staff to deliver software solutions for the business.
• Apply in-depth knowledge of concepts and procedures within your own area, along with a working knowledge of adjacent areas, to resolve complex issues.
• Ensure essential procedures are followed and contribute directly to defining engineering standards.
• Integrate in-depth application development expertise with the broader technology function to achieve established organizational goals.
• Influence and negotiate with senior leaders across functions, and communicate with external parties as necessary.

Qualifications:

• 15+ years of relevant experience in designing and developing robust, scalable, and maintainable applications applying Object Oriented Design principles.
• A minimum of 5 years of leadership experience, managing multiple development teams.
• Proven experience in leveraging AI/ML tools and technologies for software development using effective prompting in building large-scale, high-performance applications.
• Prior experience in banking domain. Working knowledge of Capital Markets and Credit Risk is a plus.
• Exposure to architecting and building horizontally scalable, highly available, highly resilient and performant applications

Skills:

Extensive experience working with most if not all the technologies listed below.

• Java Core with extensive hands‑on experience with concurrent programming.
• Spring Framework including Core, Integration, Batch, JDBC, Hibernate.
• Familiarity with AI tools; like Copilot, Devin, etc.; for software development. Familiarity with Agentic AI tools.
• Databases - RDBMS preferably Oracle, NoSQL preferably MongoDB.
• Familiarity with Linux environment including scripting skills.
• SDLC/Dev Ops - Git/BitBucket, CI/CD pipeline frameworks such as Jenkins, SonarQube, JIRA, Any secure coding toolkits.

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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