Senior Payments Platform Architect & Tech Lead

Citigroup Inc.

Tampa (FL)

On-site

USD 141,000 - 212,000

Full time

3 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental & vision insurance
401(k) plan
Paid time off

Job summary

Citi is seeking a Senior Engineering Lead for the Payments Platform in Tampa. You will architect and scale AI-powered, self-healing microservices for real-time payment processing, collaborating with product, risk, and operations teams.

You’ll mentor engineers and drive resilient, compliant solutions across global destinations. The role demands a deep mastery of Java/Cash platforms, Kafka-based pipelines, and modern CI/CD practices, with a focus on reliability and performance under high

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience in enterprise-grade payments or financial transaction processing systems.
  • Proficiency in Java technologies including Spring Boot/Spring Cloud and reactive programming.
  • Strong experience in Java and Python for enterprise-scale payments platforms.
  • Experience building resilient microservices architectures with high availability.
  • Familiarity with event-driven architectures using Apache Kafka and real-time data pipelines.
  • CI/CD tooling experience with Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD or GitHub Actions.
  • Knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases and performance tuning for high-volume data.
  • Experience leveraging AI tools to accelerate development and improve productivity.
  • Knowledge of payments rails, formats (ISO 20022, SWIFT, ACH) and regulatory considerations.

Responsibilities

  • Lead integration of functions to meet goals and deploy new payments products and capabilities.
  • Analyze complex payment processes and industry standards to define scalable solutions.
  • Provide expertise in applications programming and manage large cross-functional projects.
  • Develop methodologies and standards for design, coding, testing and implementation.
  • Ensure resilient, self-healing microservices for high-volume payments processing.
  • Collaborate with product owners and stakeholders to translate requirements into design.
  • Mentor engineers and drive adoption of modern development practices.
  • Communicate risk and regulatory considerations to leadership; ensure compliance.
  • Drive architecture decisions for resilience, security, and performance.

Skills

10+ years Software Engineering
Java - Spring Boot/Spring Cloud
Python
Microservices architecture
Kafka real-time pipelines
CI/CD tooling
Databases
AI tools
Monitoring & Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent
Master's degree preferred

Tools

Jenkins
GitLab CI/CD
GitHub Actions
Apache Kafka
Prometheus
Grafana
ELK Stack
Splunk
GitHub Copilot
Claude
Devin
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Oracle
Redis
Spring Boot
Spring Cloud

Job description

Citi is seeking a Senior Engineering Lead for the Payments Platform in Tampa. You will architect and scale AI-powered, self-healing microservices for real-time payment processing, collaborating with product, risk, and operations teams.

You’ll mentor engineers and drive resilient, compliant solutions across global destinations. The role demands a deep mastery of Java/Cash platforms, Kafka-based pipelines, and modern CI/CD practices, with a focus on reliability and performance under high

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