GenAI Architect & Enterprise AI Governance Lead

Citi; New York (NY); On-site; USD 157,000 - 236,000; Full time

Job summary

Citi is seeking a hands-on Generative AI expert to drive development, governance, and delivery of GenAI solutions across banking operations in New York. You will lead technical initiatives with engineers, data scientists, and stakeholders to architect, build, and validate GenAI systems that reduce costs, boost revenue, and enhance customer experience.

Role demands 6+ years in AI/ML within financial services, strong capabilities in LLMs, MLOps, and governance.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in AI/ML, data science, or applied engineering within financial services or a regulated industry.
• Hands-on experience deploying GenAI/LLM solutions in production environments.
• Experience with model risk management, regulatory remediation, and governance processes.
• Familiarity with AI model lifecycles: tuning, evaluation, upgrades.
• Knowledge of core banking data domains and compliance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Design GenAI-powered automation across front, mid, and back-office banking ops.
• Build enterprise GenAI capabilities, including fine-tuning pipelines and semantic layers.
• Own AI solution lifecycle from prototyping to production for high-priority use cases.
• Develop AI tools to accelerate analytics workflows and precision.
• Support model portfolio with tuning, evaluation, and governance artifacts.
• Implement enterprise GenAI infra, guardrails, and regulatory testing frameworks.
• Track model performance, latency, and guardrail effectiveness against benchmarks.

Skills

GenAI

LLMs

RAG

Prompt engineering

MLOps/LLMOps

Python

SQL

Governance & testing

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative discipline

Master’s degree preferred; Ph.D. a plus

Tools

MLOps/LLMOps

Cloud platforms

Spark

Python

SQL

GitHub/Bitbucket

Job description

Citi is seeking a hands-on Generative AI expert to drive development, governance, and delivery of GenAI solutions across banking operations in New York. You will lead technical initiatives with engineers, data scientists, and stakeholders to architect, build, and validate GenAI systems that reduce costs, boost revenue, and enhance customer experience.

Role demands 6+ years in AI/ML within financial services, strong capabilities in LLMs, MLOps, and governance.