AI-Driven Release Engineering Lead

Citi; Tampa (FL); On-site; USD 141,000 - 212,000; Full time

Job summary

Citi seeks a Release Management AI Engineering Lead in Tampa to shape AI-powered release pipelines, lead engineers, and partner with product, security, and platform teams. You will deliver production-grade AI systems, embed intelligence into deployment workflows, and drive SDLC governance.

You will steer the design of agentic AI workflows, integrate AI into engineering systems, and champion a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement across the organization.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading AI/ML or platform engineering teams in product-focused environments.
• 13+ years of relevant experience.
• Strong hands-on engineering experience in Python and/or Golang — building and shipping production systems.
• Demonstrated experience with Generative AI and LLM technologies — including prompt engineering, LangChain, LlamaIndex, RAG pipelines, or equivalent frameworks
• Deep knowledge of release management and CI/CD — including tools such as Harness, GitHub Actions, Tekton, ArgoCD, or similar

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end release management strategy, defining standards and tooling for CI/CD, deployment orchestration, and release governance
• Drive the adoption of Harness, progressive delivery (blue/green, canary), and everything-as-code principles across engineering teams
• Define and enforce SDLC controls, ensuring release processes are secure, auditable, and compliant with Citi's standards
• Lead the design and delivery of AI-powered release management systems, including intelligent deployment gates, anomaly detection, predictive rollback, and LLM-assisted release orchestration
• Architect and implement agentic AI workflows that automate release readiness assessments, change risk analysis, and compliance checks
• Evaluate and integrate AI/ML models into production release workflows, ensuring safety, reliability, and auditability
• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of AI and platform engineers — fostering a culture of technical excellence, psychological safety, and continuous improvement
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders — product managers, security engineers, platform teams, and business analysts — to align release capabilities with organizational goals
• Drive cultural change by championing AI-augmented engineering practices and encouraging critical, creative thinking about controls and processes
• Design and build scalable, production-grade backend systems using Python and/or Golang, integrating with cloud-native and containerized infrastructure
• Ensure all platforms are secure, observable, and compliant with Citi's DevSecOps and SDLC requirements
• Champion best practices in system design including distributed systems, event-driven architectures, micro-services, and API-first design

Skills

AI/ML leadership

Python

Golang

Generative AI

LLM technologies

Release management

CI/CD

Kubernetes

OpenShift

ArgoCD

Tools

Harness

GitHub Actions

Tekton

ArgoCD

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Job description

Citi seeks a Release Management AI Engineering Lead in Tampa to shape AI-powered release pipelines, lead engineers, and partner with product, security, and platform teams. You will deliver production-grade AI systems, embed intelligence into deployment workflows, and drive SDLC governance.

You will steer the design of agentic AI workflows, integrate AI into engineering systems, and champion a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement across the organization.