SDLC & Release Automation Java​/Kotlin Engineer

We’re looking for an enthusiastic & talented server side engineer, to join our high-impact teams inside Citi’s CTO organisation. You’ll sit within Developer Enablement, a group focused on innovation, productivity and automation of our strategic developer tools internal tools used across the bank.

We embody modern best delivery best practices, 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. We are here to be opinionated and challenge processes and procedures making software delivery easier, more enjoyable and safer. 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.

Opportunity

There are many exciting automation and simplification opportunities across the suite of strategic CTO owned tools related to developer release practices and SDLC alignment. Two closely related key strategic projects will require your expertise driving solutions are as follows:

Release on Demand (RoD) is our strategic release management platform that makes it trivial to generate production run books & Service Now Changes with the click of a button. 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 approx.

65% of them. The tool is expanding at a rapid pace across the enterprise and is expected to double its release volumes for the third year running.

RoD enables cultural change within development teams enabling them to move quickly but whilst maintaining codified quality gates to ensure the correct SDLC and procedural requirements of the firm are upheld, whilst driving industry best practices (DORA)

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 at Citi, taking ideas like grading engineering teams and rewarding those who follow best practices, perhaps moving them from manual approval process to an automatic one. The use of Artificial Intelligence is planned to further automate and remove manual human led processes that add toil to the SDLC process

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 do

Write code and deliver. You are a delivery focussed engineer for our back end services.

That means contributing high-quality code regularly, not just reviewing other people's. You set the bar through your own work.

Shape how we build. You'll have a real voice in our architecture and technical roadmap. Your opinion matters

Stay ahead of GenAI. This space moves fast. We need someone who follows it seriously, brings new ideas back to the team, and actively applies what they're learning to the products we build. If you've been experimenting with new models, new tooling, or new patterns, that's exactly the kind of thinking we want in the room.

Be a team player. Thoughtful code reviews. Unblocking people when they're stuck. Sharing what you know. Your success here is tied…