Senior Forward-Deployed Engineer Lead: AI & Core Banking

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental & vision coverage

401(k)

Life, accident, and disability ins.

Wellness programs

Paid time off

Job summary

Citigroup in New York, NY seeks a Lead/Staff Forward Deployed Engineer to architect and deploy agentic workflows for flagship banking use cases. You will drive complex integrations with core backends and set technical standards for the squad, mentoring senior engineers in a high-stakes enterprise environment.

You will collaborate with AI architecture leaders, ensure security and risk controls, and deliver production-grade solutions across distributed systems and APIs.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering with backend/distributed systems experience.
• 2+ years deploying production LLM/agentic applications.
• Masters preferred; Bachelor's required as minimum.

Responsibilities

• Serve as technical anchor collocated with LOB squads, guiding architecture and problem solving.
• Architect and deploy end-to-end agentic workflows using Python and Arc platform.
• Lead deep integrations with core banking systems, microservices, and MCP servers.
• Implement enterprise security controls (mTLS, OAuth2, Vault, OpenShift).
• Mentor engineers and conduct architecture reviews and security assessments.
• Collaborate with Principal AI Architect on patterns and reusable components.

Skills

Python

Asyncio

Distributed systems

Leadership

Security

Kafka

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Docker/OpenShift

APIs

Databases

Kafka

Job description

Citigroup in New York, NY seeks a Lead/Staff Forward Deployed Engineer to architect and deploy agentic workflows for flagship banking use cases. You will drive complex integrations with core backends and set technical standards for the squad, mentoring senior engineers in a high-stakes enterprise environment.

You will collaborate with AI architecture leaders, ensure security and risk controls, and deliver production-grade solutions across distributed systems and APIs.