Citigroup

Citigroup

Forward Deployed Engineer - Director

Jersey City New Jersey United States, USA · Director · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$170k-$300kDetected 2 days ago
PythonJavaExpressBackend DevelopmentFull-Stack DevelopmentNoSQLMongoDBDynamoDBAWSDockerKubernetesCI/CDPlatform EngineeringAPI DevelopmentKafkaRabbitMQAgentic AIStakeholder ManagementTest AutomationLeadership

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About the role

  • Director - Forward Deployed Engineer is a Senior strategic technical leader who will shape the future of AI-powered solutions for Citi Payment Express.
  • We're seeking an exceptional engineer-leader who thrives in ambiguity, operates with urgency, and brings the rare combination of hands-on technical excellence and proven people leadership.
  • As both a builder and a leader, you'll mentor a high-performing engineering team while remaining deeply involved in architecture, code, and delivery.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the Citi Payment Express Market
  • Own the technical strategy, architecture, and delivery roadmap for CPX in key markets
  • Drive rapid, reliable deployment of solutions into production environments.
  • Identify high-value opportunities where AI and engineering can drive measurable impact.
  • Deliver end-to-end solutions from concept through to production deployment.
  • Lead, mentor, and develop a team of engineers.
  • Design and build leveraging:
  • Develop scalable APIs and backend services using Python and Java.
  • Deploy, operate, and maintain services on Kubernetes/AWS.
  • Drive platform reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.

Requirements

  • 15+ years of experience as a Senior Engineering Leader, Engineering Manager, or Technical Architect with a track record of building, leading, and scaling high-performing engineering teams.
  • Experience establishing engineering culture, defining team values, and driving accountability, innovation, and technical excellence across the organization.
  • Experience operating in customer-facing, consulting, embedded, or Forward Deployed Engineering environments, with the ability to translate business challenges into technical solutions.
  • Expert-level proficiency in Python and Java, with strong architectural skills in API design, microservices development, and distributed systems.
  • Hands-on experience with Containerization technologies including Docker, multi-stage builds, container registries.
  • Proficiency with Cloud-Native Architectures and Modern Deployment methodologies, including experience Architecting Solutions on AWS (EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS, DynamoDB)
  • Experience with Event-driven Architectures and Message Brokers such as Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS SNS/SQS, or Google Pub/Sub, including designing for fault tolerance and scalability.
  • Strong understanding of NoSQL databases like MongoDB
  • Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience
  • Proven ability to lead, coach, and mentor engineers across all levels, fostering technical growth, career development, and succession planning within the team.
  • Strong leadership in PDLC best practices, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks, and engineering performance metrics including DORA (Deployment Frequency, Lead Time, Change Failure Rate, MTTR).
  • Good hands-on experience Developing Agentic AI Solutions using Google Agent Development Kit (ADK) and Model Context Protocol (MCP) Servers, with demonstrated ability to architect and integrate AI capabilities into production workflows.
  • Extensive hands-on experience architecting, deploying, and operating services on Kubernetes, including pod management, service mesh, ingress controllers, cluster autoscaling, and multi-cluster orchestration.
  • Education:

Nice to have

  • Master's degree preferred

Skills

  • 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.
  • Citi also offers paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays.
  • 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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