Senior Tech Lead, Real-Time Payments Sanctions Platform

Citibank (Switzerland) AG; Tampa (FL); Hybrid; USD 141,000 - 212,000; Full time

Job summary

Citi is seeking an Engineering Lead for the Payments Sanctions Platform in Tampa, FL, with hybrid work options. You will architect and implement real-time sanctions screening, lead microservices development, and collaborate with compliance teams to ensure regulatory alignment.

You will drive technical direction, mentor engineers, and build scalable, AI-enabled solutions across complex distributed systems in a regulated payments environment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience in enterprise-grade payments or sanctions systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead integration of sanctions screening capabilities and real-time transaction screening workflows.
• Architect resilient microservices for 99.99% availability in high-volume environments.
• Mentor engineers and collaborate with compliance, product, and risk stakeholders.

Skills

Java

Python

Spring Boot

Spring Cloud

Reactive programming

Kafka

CI/CD tooling

PostgreSQL

NoSQL

Prometheus

Grafana

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Git

Copilot/AI tooling

Job description

Citi is seeking an Engineering Lead for the Payments Sanctions Platform in Tampa, FL, with hybrid work options. You will architect and implement real-time sanctions screening, lead microservices development, and collaborate with compliance teams to ensure regulatory alignment.

You will drive technical direction, mentor engineers, and build scalable, AI-enabled solutions across complex distributed systems in a regulated payments environment.