Director, Applied Artificial Intelligence & Agentic Platform Engineering

Citi

Remote Actively hiring Posted this week
Remote (6400 Las Colinas Blvd Irving, US) Posted 3 days ago $170,000$300,000 / year

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TL;DR

The Director of Agentic Platform Engineering will lead a new initiative to build an advanced AI platform for banking workflows at the Corporate, Commercial, and Investment Bank level. This hands-on leader will design and develop scalable, secure systems using cutting-edge technologies like Google ADK and LangChain, while also recruiting and mentoring a high-performing engineering team. Key responsibilities include strategic roadmapping, cross-functional collaboration with enterprise architecture teams, and ensuring compliance with banking regulations. The ideal candidate has over 12 years of software engineering experience, including leadership roles in the financial services industry, and expertise in Python, Java/Spring Boot, Go, microservices, Kubernetes, GCP, and DevSecOps practices. This role offers a unique opportunity to drive transformative change in a high-impact environment.

Skills

Python Java Spring Boot Go GCP AWS Kubernetes Terraform GitHub Actions Jenkins PostgreSQL Oracle MongoDB Cassandra Kafka Docker CI/CD Prometheus Grafana LLM Agentic Frameworks ADK Vertex AI MCP Knowledge Graphs RAG Elastic Pinecone Model Lifecycle Governance Secure Coding API Security Zero Trust Data Privacy Encryption Access Control Regulatory Compliance MRM

What you'll do

  • Lead the design and hands-on development of a scalable agentic AI platform.
  • Recruit and mentor high-performing software and machine learning engineers.
  • Define technical strategy in partnership with product management and business leaders.
  • Integrate Large Language Models (LLMs) and other AI/ML technologies into banking solutions.
  • Implement best-in-class engineering practices for CI/CD, testing, and monitoring.

What we're looking for

  • Over 12 years of software engineering experience with at least 4 years in a leadership role.
  • Proven hands-on technical leadership and player-coach experience.
  • Strong track record of designing and launching scalable cloud-native platforms.
  • Deep expertise in building agentic AI systems using GCP, LLMs, and multi-agent architectures.
  • Experience in financial services industry with knowledge of banking workflows and data.
  • Exceptional communication skills to articulate complex technical concepts to stakeholders.

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