Digital Software Engineer Manager, SVP

Overview of the Role

Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services and wealth management.

As a bank with a brain and a soul, Citi creates economic value that is systemically responsible and in our clients’ best interests. As a financial institution that touches every region of the world and every sector that shapes your daily life, our Enterprise Operations & Technology teams are charged with a mission that rivals any large tech company. Our technology solutions are the foundations of everything we do from keeping the bank safe, managing global resources and providing the technical tools our workers need to be successful to designing our digital architecture and ensuring our platforms provide a first‑class customer experience.

We reimagine client and partner experiences to deliver excellence through secure, reliable, and efficient services.

Our commitment to diversity includes a workforce that represents the clients we serve from all walks of life, backgrounds and origins. We foster an environment where the best people want to work. We value and demand respect for others, promote individuals based on merit and ensure opportunities for personal development are widely available to all. Ideal candidates are innovators with well‑rounded backgrounds who bring their authentic selves to work and complement our culture of delivering results with pride.

If you are a problem solver who seeks passion in your work, come join us. We’ll enable growth and progress together.

We are looking for a senior, technically‑grounded leader to act as a Digital Software Engineering Group Manager. This role is accountable for the management of large and complex engineering areas, requiring a leader with a deep background in full‑stack development. You will lead and direct multiple teams of seasoned professionals, applying a comprehensive understanding of modern architecture and engineering practices to achieve strategic objectives.

You will be accountable for the delivery of a full range of services to one or more business lines, exercising control over resources, budget and technical strategy. This position requires a blend of strong commercial awareness, technical credibility in Java and modern frontend stacks and proven experience managing multiple engineering teams.

• Attract, hire and retain senior full‑stack engineering talent from both inside and outside the company.
• Lead multiple engineering teams, with full management responsibility including performance evaluations, compensation, hiring and disciplinary actions.
• Develop technical skills across your teams, identifying and planning for large‑scale development needs in areas such as cloud engineering, backend services and frontend frameworks.
• Mentor other engineers and managers, improving their technical skills and their ability to deliver complex software.

• Develop and communicate a technical vision and roadmap for your department that supports the broader organizational vision.
• Influence your teams’ technical strategy by making insightful contributions to architecture, technology selection and engineering approach.
• Audit department goals to ensure alignment with broader organizational objectives and hold the department accountable for engineering and delivery excellence.
• Engage in short‑to‑medium‑term planning of technical resources, architecture runways and project roadmaps for your area.

• Lead the architectural design and implementation of successful large‑scale, critical software projects, with a focus on full‑stack solutions.
• Guide architectural decisions across backend (Java/Spring Boot) and frontend (Angular/React) systems, including microservices, cloud‑native patterns and API design.
• Identify and solve ambiguous technical…