Senior AI Architect — Forward-Deployed Agent Systems

Citi; New York (NY); On-site; USD 240,000 - 346,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days annual leave (plus bankhols)

Discretional annual bonus

Private Medical Care & Life Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Pension Plan

Paid Parental Leave

Special discounts for employees

Job summary

Citi London is seeking a Lead Forward Deployed AI Engineer (SVP) to architect and deliver production‑grade agent systems for banking workflows. You will own end‑to‑end design, mentor engineers and drive secure, scalable AI solutions across enterprise platforms in a fast‑moving, highly collaborative environment.

The role combines hands‑on development with architectural ownership, including security, governance and risk management, within embedded business teams.

Qualifications

• Extensive software engineering experience with backend and distributed systems.
• Proven experience building/maintaining production‑grade LLM and agentic AI applications.
• Strong Python skills including asynchronous programming and complex workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical architecture and hands‑on delivery in embedded teams.
• Design, build and deploy end‑to‑end agentic workflows.
• Integrations with core banking systems, APIs, databases and microservices.

Skills

Python

LLM engineering

Distributed systems

Asyncio

Architectural design

Tools

Docker

OpenShift

Kafka

ADK

Job description

Citi London is seeking a Lead Forward Deployed AI Engineer (SVP) to architect and deliver production‑grade agent systems for banking workflows. You will own end‑to‑end design, mentor engineers and drive secure, scalable AI solutions across enterprise platforms in a fast‑moving, highly collaborative environment.

The role combines hands‑on development with architectural ownership, including security, governance and risk management, within embedded business teams.