Developer Enablement, Technical Architect – Release on Demand (SVP

Position: Developer Enablement, Technical Architect – Release on Demand (SVP)
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London, England, United Kingdom Category:
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Citi We're looking for an expert level Technical Architect to join one of our high-impact teams inside Citi's CTO organisation. You'll sit within Developer Enablement, a group focused on innovation, developer platforms and internal tools used across the bank, where we experiment and ship fast, like a startup inside a global bank. Our mission is to drive productivity by streamlining/automating processes & make the best tools available for our 30k engineers.

At Citi's scale saving tens of minutes per day, equates to 10,000,000s of savings.

We believe happy engineers make the best engineers and are a technology managed department.

Opportunities in CTOThere are many exciting opportunities for you in and around our SDLC and the automation journey we are on. Initially we are looking for a strong, hands on technical architect for our strategic Release automation platform (Release on Demand) but we support opportunities to extend your sphere of influence across various related up and downstream platforms which is highly encouraged.

Release on Demand (RoD) is our strategic release management platform and the primary focus of this role. Built internally approximately three years ago, the platform has quickly become our strategic release generation and deployment tool used across all lines of business. Last year it generated 60k releases and automated the deployment of approximately 75% of them. We expect its user base and release volume to doubling again this year such is the enterprise’s drive to automated and strategic tooling.

RoD is more than a release tool — it is a codified governance engine, embedding compliance controls, SDLC guardrails, and DORA best practices directly into the delivery pipeline. It enables teams to move quickly whilst maintaining quality gates to ensure the correct SDLC and procedural requirements of the firm are upheld. As the platform's footprint grows rapidly, so does its architectural complexity — and the need for a world-class architect to ensure it scales with confidence.

The platform is a cornerstone of automated governance within the SDLC and software delivery space. There are many ongoing initiatives to support further SDLC automations, and the wider team is expanding. We need a highly skilled architect to ensure the platform's solidity, availability, and continued evolution.

SDLC Automation is a greenfield initiative that builds on the success we've had in automating the SDLC and takes it further. This blue-sky project looks at ways we can greatly improve the SDLC process  use of Artificial Intelligence is planned to further automate and remove manual human-led processes that add toil to the SDLC process. Your architectural thinking will help shape both initiatives

Why you'll love working here:

You get to work in the engineering focused part of the bank, the Chief Technology Office, building tools for other engineers

You’ll work and lead small, agile team, in an organisation led by technologists and use the latest AI tooling to complete your work.

You’ll impact the daily experience of tens of thousands of engineers at one of the largest engineering organisations in the world.

Our culture runs on engineering craftsmanship. Leadership here actually understands what that means. We're proving what's possible inside a large organisation, and that means navigating some legacy alongside building the future. If you want everything perfect on day one, this isn't the right fit. If you want to help us get there, keep reading.

The team is distributed across Belfast, Canada & London. You'll work closely with engineers across time zones and partner directly with product and platform leadership.

What you will doOwn the Architecture. You are the technical authority for the RoD platform. That means defining, documenting, and evolving the platform's architecture — from service boundaries and data models to event topology and deployment patterns. You ensure the platform is built to last and built to scale.

Drive Scalability & Reliability. Lead the engineering effort to make RoD…