Executive AI Architect — Autonomous Systems & Agent Platforms

Citigroup

New York (NY)

On-site

USD 170,000 - 300,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental & vision coverage

401(k)

Life, accident & disability insurance

Wellness programs

Paid time off

Job summary

Citigroup is seeking a Principal AI Architect in New York to define and govern the enterprise architecture for autonomous agentic systems and multi-agent frameworks. This executive role co-owns enterprise blueprints, review gates, and playbooks, aligning field deployments with Arc Platform, R2D2 Gateway, Agentflow, and Helix across Citi’s technology footprint.

With 10+ years in software architecture and 3+ years in production LLM-powered apps, you’ll lead governance, establish standards for MCP

Qualifications

10+ years of progressive software architecture and engineering experience in enterprise, distributed systems, or financial technology environments.

Responsibilities

Serves as the chief technical authority for autonomous systems, multi-agent frameworks, and hierarchical sub-agent architectures across Citi's global technology footprint.
Authors and maintains enterprise reference architectures and blueprints for single-agent, hierarchical sub-agent, and Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) workflows, ensuring strict adherence across all delivery pods.
Acts as the primary technical bridge in the Product/Platform Feedback Loop with the Arc Core, R2D2 Gateway, and Agentflow platform teams—translating field friction from LOB deployments into core platform features.
Chairs the Agent Architecture Review Board (AARB) to conduct mandatory technical, architectural, and security reviews for all high-risk AI agents prior to UAT and Production promotion.
Defines enterprise standards for Model Context Protocol (MCP) server integration, zero-trust boundary enforcement via Tiramisu proxies, and COIN M2M identity token delegation.
Establishes horizontal governance, code quality, testability, and automated evaluation standards across all Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) pods.
Advises senior business and technology leadership on emerging AI paradigms, non-deterministic system validation, and foundation model capabilities.
Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.