AI​/Full Stack Java Tech Lead – Vice President

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. Our Enterprise Operations & Technology teams are charged with a mission that rivals any large tech company. Our technology solutions are the foundation of everything we do – keeping the bank safe, managing global resources, and providing the technical tools our workers need to be successful, 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.

The AI/Full Stack Tech Lead role is a strategic professional technical specialist with deep domain expertise in Securities‑Based Lending (SBL) to join our SBL program, a key part of the OMAI Initiative. The ideal candidate’s primary strength will be a comprehensive understanding of the SBL lifecycle, from underwriting and legal documentation to collateral management. This expertise will help with design and implementation of Generative AI solutions, translating the strategic AI roadmap into functional, production‑ready code.

This role acts as a crucial bridge between the SBL Engineering team and SBL business partners, requiring frequent, direct interaction with specialists in SBL Business, Credit Risk, Legal, and Operations. The goal is to leverage technology to solve complex challenges and drive transformation across our global SBL operations.

• The role is responsible for the hands‑on development and coding of SBL solutions that transform the SBL lifecycle, including writing production‑quality code for component‑level development of Agentic AI systems and interacting with internal SBL APIs for loan origination, collateral management, and risk assessment.
• The engineer may leverage the Long Context Advantage to automate and augment the analysis of complex client portfolios and credit agreements for SBL underwriting, including implementing the data pipelines for these models.
• Design and build solutions to automate the analysis, extraction, and verification of information from complex legal documents (e.g., credit agreements, term sheets, collateral pledges) and integrate with Docu Sign to significantly reduce the documentation lifecycle.
• The engineer will implement and maintain the data infrastructure required for SBL solutions, demonstrating proficiency with both relational and No
  
  SQL databases.
• Design and implement robust APIs and data feeds for integrating the SBL platform with critical internal and external systems, such as market data providers, risk engines, credit adjudication platforms, and downstream loan product processors.
• Work closely with Credit Risk, Legal, and Compliance partners to ensure the SBL platform accurately implements lending policies and adheres to regulatory requirements (e.g., Regulation U), and collaborate with Technology and Business Information Security offices to embed security best practices into the system architecture.
• Investigate and resolve complex technical issues related to the SBL…