Senior Principal Engineer, API Tooling & Automation - SVP

## Senior Principal Engineer, API Tooling & Automation - SVPApply:
Hybrid:
Irving Texas United States:
Full time:
Posted Yesterday:
The
** Senior Principal Engineer, API Tooling & Automation** (Digital S/W Eng Sr Lead Analyst) is a strategic, high-impact technical leader responsible for driving critical architecture, automation, and modernization initiatives across our API and digital technology landscape. This role demands a visionary subject matter expert capable of delivering exceptional technical leadership, strategic platform ownership, and advanced tooling solutions (including AI/ML-driven automation) to elevate developer productivity, platform stability, and operational efficiency.

As a C14 Senior Principal Engineer, you will operate with a high degree of independence, defining technical strategy, establishing robust platform governance, and mentoring mid-to-senior level engineers. You will collaborate extensively with cross-functional stakeholders at a senior level to negotiate, guide, and align technical solutions with Citi's broader technology vision.##
** Key Responsibilities**###
** 1. Strategic Technical Leadership & Architecture**
* ** Platform Modernization:
** Drive the long-term technical strategy, architecture, and maturation of critical technology platforms (including API platforms and developer self-service portals), building strong stakeholder and developer confidence.
* ** Advanced Tooling & AI:
** Lead the design and implementation of innovative, next-generation solutions, including advanced data-matching logic, AI/ML-driven developer tools, and automated pipelines to optimize platform hygiene.
* ** Design Governance:
** Serve as a key member of the Design Review Board, searching for generic patterns, establishing architectural best practices, and sharing engineering excel-level templates across the organization.
* ** Strategic Trade-Offs:
** Formulate technical and architectural trade-offs (e.g., service boundaries, performance vs. extensibility) that balanced immediate, tactical, operational needs with long-term strategic business goals.###
** 2. Risk Management & Operational Excellence**
* ** Platform Governance:
** Strengthen platform governance and compliance by establishing robust credential management workflows, ensuring diligent
** CAMP
* * compliance, and managing certificate renewal automation.
* ** Pipeline & Deployment Security:
** Oversee production deployment support processes and manage critical pipeline migrations, developing robust tools to enhance end-to-end auditability and traceability.
* ** Operational Hygiene:
** Proactively identify, mitigate, and resolve daily operational risks, fostering a self-disciplined culture of robust operational hygiene and platform resilience.
* ** Risk Safeguarding:
** Appropriately assess risk during technical decision-making, demonstrating strict consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients, and assets by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules, and regulations.###
** 3. Financial Optimization & Resource Management**
* ** Platform Rationalization:
** Lead significant initiatives to optimize infrastructure utilization, leveraging data-driven insights to retire legacy components and rationalize low- or zero-traffic APIs, reducing operational overhead and technical debt.
* ** Traffic & Cost Efficiency:
** Define and implement advanced quota and rate-limit optimizations to improve resource utilization, directly contributing to financial savings and cloud platform cost efficiency.
* ** Strategic Buy-In:
** Develop strong influence with production management and application owners to secure buy-in and drive large-scale, cost-effective changes that deliver tangible financial benefits.###
** 4. Stakeholder Engagement & Talent Development**
* ** Consensus & Influence:
** Act as a premier influencer and technical diplomat, engaging with and driving consensus among diverse stakeholders, including business leaders, product managers, and engineering teams.
* ** Mentorship &

Coaching:

** Act as an advisor, coach, and mentor to SDE IIs, SDE IIIs, and lower-level architects, establishing metric-oriented delivery goals, identifying growth opportunities, and providing formal/informal recognition for impactful contributions.
* ** Community Advocacy:
** Elevate Citi’s technology brand and GCT (Global Consumer Technology) profile by contributing to brown bags, tech talks, external publications, user groups, and actively representing the firm at key…