Citigroup
Principal AI Architect - Director
New York New York United States, USA · Director · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$170k-$300kDetected 2 days ago
PythonGoDistributed SystemsKubernetesOAuthMachine LearningLLMsAgentic AILLMOpsLangGraphZero TrustLeadership
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About the role
- Citi also offers paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays.
- Available offerings may vary by jurisdiction, job level, and date of hire.
Responsibilities
- Authors and maintains enterprise reference architectures and blueprints for single-agent, hierarchical sub-agent, and Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) workflows, ensuring strict adherence across all delivery pods.
Requirements
- 10+ years of progressive software architecture and engineering experience in enterprise, distributed systems, or financial technology environments.
- Demonstrated leadership and track record of chairing technical governance bodies and influencing enterprise-level architectural direction.
- Bachelor's/University degree or equivalent experience
- 3+ years of hands-on experience architecting and deploying production LLM-powered applications, multi-agent systems, and autonomous agentic workflows (e.g., LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, Semantic Kernel, Agent Development Kit / ADK).
- Mastery of Python and/or Golang, OpenShift/Kubernetes, distributed microservices, OAuth2/JWT token delegation, API gateway management, and enterprise telemetry (OpenTelemetry, Splunk).
- Deep understanding of financial services compliance, Model Risk Management (MRM) standards, and deterministic validation methodologies for non-deterministic AI outputs.
- Consistently demonstrates clear, concise, and persuasive executive-level written and verbal communication.
- Education:
- Job Family Group:
- Technology
- Job Family:
- Architecture
- Time Type:
Nice to have
- Master's degree in Computer Science, AI/ML, or related technical field strongly preferred.
Skills
- Other Relevant Skills For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.
- For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.
Compensation
- $170,000.00 - $300,000.00
- In addition to salary, Citi's offerings may also include, for eligible employees, discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards.
Benefits
- Citi offers competitive employee benefits, including: medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs.
- For additional information regarding Citi employee benefits, please visit citibenefits.com.
Equal opportunity
- View Citi's EEO Policy Statement and the Know Your Rights poster.
- If you are a person with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to use our search tools and/or apply for a career opportunity review Accessibility at Citi.
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