Senior AI Agent Architect — Forward‑Deployed Engineer

Citi; New York (NY); On-site; USD 177,000 - 265,000; Full time

Job summary

The Applied AI and Agents Factory at Citi in New York is shaping production‑grade AI solutions by turning advanced capabilities into practical systems. You’ll own the full lifecycle from architecture to deployment, collaborating with business and technology teams to deliver robust agentic workflows.

Lead/Staff Forward Deployed Engineer will mentor engineers, drive secure, scalable integrations with core banking backends, and help establish enterprise patterns and reusable components across

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, incl. backend/distributed systems
• 2+ years building/ deploying production LLM/agentic apps

Responsibilities

• Serves as the senior technical anchor collocated with LOB engineering squads, leading technical problem-solving and architecture on the front lines of agent deployments.
• Architects and builds end-to-end agentic workflows using Python, ADK, LangGraph, and the Arc platform for high-impact business use cases.
• Leads deep technical integrations with sensitive core banking systems, databases, and microservices via custom Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers.
• Implements robust enterprise security controls for agentic executions, including mTLS, OAuth2 token delegation, HashiCorp Vault, and OpenShift container security.
• Mentors C12 and C13 engineers within the pod, conducting rigorous code reviews, architecture critiques, and security assessments.
• Partners closely with the C15 Principal AI Architect to evaluate field design patterns and contribute to enterprise agent blueprints and reusable components.
• 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.

Skills

Python

Asyncio

State machines

Docker / OpenShift

Distributed microservices

LLM / agentic apps

Leadership

Communication

Security

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

ADK

LangGraph

Arc platform

Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers

Kafka

OAuth2

HashiCorp Vault

OpenShift

Job description

The Applied AI and Agents Factory at Citi in New York is shaping production‑grade AI solutions by turning advanced capabilities into practical systems. You’ll own the full lifecycle from architecture to deployment, collaborating with business and technology teams to deliver robust agentic workflows.

Lead/Staff Forward Deployed Engineer will mentor engineers, drive secure, scalable integrations with core banking backends, and help establish enterprise patterns and reusable components across