Senior Engineering Lead - Payments Platform (SVP)

Citi; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

The Senior Engineering Lead – Payments Platform at Citi is a senior‑level architect responsible for defining the future of Citi’s payments infrastructure. You will architect resilient, AI‑powered microservices that power real‑time transaction processing and mentor engineers across global teams.

As a leader, you will collaborate with payments product owners, stakeholders and cross‑functional teams to deliver scalable, secure solutions that balance performance, resilience and compliance in a

Responsibilities

• Lead integration of functions to meet goals, deploy new payments products/capabilities, and enhance payment processing workflows
• Analyze complex business processes, system processes, and payments industry standards (e.g., ISO 20022, card network rules, real‑time payment scheme requirements) to define and develop solutions to high‑level problems
• Provide expertise in area of advanced knowledge of applications programming and plan assignments involving large budgets, cross‑functional projects, or multiple projects within the payments platform domain
• Develop application methodologies and standards for program analysis, design, coding, testing, debugging, and implementation
• Utilize advanced knowledge of supported main system flows and comprehensive knowledge of multiple areas to achieve technology goals across the payments platform
• Consult with payments product owners and business stakeholders to identify system function specifications and incorporate into overall system design
• Allocate work, and act as an advisor/coach to developers, analysts, and new team members

Job description

Senior Engineering Lead – Payments Platform (SVP)

Job Req Id:

26987551

Location(s):

Tampa, Florida, United States, Irving, Texas, United States

Job Type:

Hybrid

Posted:

Sep. 25, 2026

Discover your future at Citi

Working at Citi is far more than just a job. A career with us means joining a team of approximately 219,000 dedicated people from around the globe. At Citi, you’ll have the opportunity to grow your career, give back to your community and make a real impact.

Job Overview

About Citi:

Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management.

As a bank with a brain and a soul, Citi creates economic value that is systemically responsible and in our clients’ best interests. As a financial institution that touches every region of the world and every sector that shapes your daily life, our Enterprise Operations & Technology teams are charged with a mission that rivals any large tech company. Our technology solutions are the foundations of everything we do from keeping the bank safe, managing global resources, and providing the technical tools our workers needed to be successful to designing our digital architecture and ensuring our platforms provide a first‑class customer experience. We reimagine client and partner experiences to deliver excellence through secure, reliable, and efficient services.

Our commitment to diversity includes a workforce that represents the clients we serve from all walks of life, backgrounds, and origins. We foster an environment where the best people want to work. We value and demand respect for others, promote individuals based on merit, and ensure opportunities for personal development are widely available to all. Ideal candidates are innovators with well‑rounded backgrounds who bring their authentic selves to work and complement our culture of delivering results with pride. If you are a problem solver who seeks passion in your work, come join us. We’ll enable growth and progress together.

About the Team:

The Senior Engineering Lead – Payments Platform is a senior‑level innovator and technical architect trusted to define the future of Citi’s payments infrastructure at one of the world’s most consequential financial institutions.

This is not a role for those content with maintaining the status quo. The ideal candidate brings a rare combination of deep technical mastery and systems‑level thinking — someone who can simultaneously architect resilient, AI‑powered microservices that power mission‑critical payment transaction processing at scale, and translate that work into meaningful outcomes for Citi’s clients and partners across the globe. As a senior leader on the Payments Platform team, this professional will be at the forefront of Citi’s payments technology evolution, shaping platforms that are not only performant and secure, but self‑healing, intelligent, and built to endure the demands of high‑volume, real‑time transaction processing.

In this role, the successful candidate will operate at the intersection of engineering excellence and organizational leadership — collaborating with cross‑functional teams, payments product owners, end users, and senior stakeholders to deliver solutions that are as elegant as they are impactful. They will drive the adoption of cutting‑edge methodologies, mentor the next generation of engineers, and ensure every technical decision reflects Citi’s unwavering commitment to resilience, compliance, and client trust in the movement of funds. This is an opportunity to build something that matters — at a scale few institutions can offer

Responsibilities:

• Lead integration of functions to meet goals, deploy new payments products/capabilities, and enhance payment processing workflows
• Analyze complex business processes, system processes, and payments industry standards (e.g., ISO 20022, card network rules, real‑time payment scheme requirements) to define and develop solutions to high‑level problems
• Provide expertise in area of advanced knowledge of applications programming and plan assignments involving large budgets, cross‑functional projects, or multiple projects within the payments platform domain
• Develop application methodologies and standards for program analysis, design, coding, testing, debugging, and implementation
• Utilize advanced knowledge of supported main system flows and comprehensive knowledge of multiple areas to achieve technology goals across the payments platform
• Consult with payments product owners and business stakeholders to identify system function specifications and incorporate into overall system design
• Allocate work, and act as an advisor/coach to developers, analysts, and new team members