Engineering & Delivery Lead - Data Services

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Hybrid

Aug. 14, 2026

Working at Citi is far more than just a job. A career with us means joining a team of approximately 219,000 dedicated people from around the globe. At Citi, you’ll have the opportunity to grow your career, give back to your community and make a real impact.

We are seeking a highly accomplished, hands-on SVP – Engineering & Delivery Lead (Data Services) to join our technology leadership team in Pune. In this critical engineering role, you will serve as the Platform Tech Lead and take end-to-end ownership of the technical delivery,
architectural alignment
, and global engineering execution for our strategic Data Services platforms.

This is a senior software engineering leadership and technical delivery role designed for a seasoned software/data engineer with a proven track record of managing engineering teams and technically steering agile work streams. In this role, you will hold direct line management responsibility for distributed agile engineering pods, providing people leadership, talent development, and technical oversight.

You will be responsible for driving the technical execution of key initiatives, including modernizing our core data services, scaling our data lakehouse infrastructure, and engineering critical regulatory-driven technology programs, compliance commitments, and enterprise technology mandates. You will own team capacity planning, hiring, talent development, and performance evaluations.

A core expectation of this role is an AI-First Thinking Mindset
. You will actively champion and drive the adoption of generative AI tools (such as Git Hub Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT, and other developer productivity assistants) to significantly accelerate software delivery, automate testing, and improve code quality across your teams, adapting seamlessly to the enterprise-approved tools available within our network. You will ensure that all engineering deliverables strictly align with our target architecture, enforce rigorous code and design standards, and maintain hands‑on technical oversight and architectural alignment across multiple global agile engineering work streams.

• Engineering Line Management: Manage, hire, develop, and conduct performance evaluations for a distributed, multi-location team of software and data engineers, ensuring continuous talent growth and high team engagement.
• Agile Pod Delivery: Provide hands‑on technical leadership and functional management across agile engineering pods, driving daily sprint execution, code reviews, and architectural alignment.
• AI-First Software Delivery: Champion and drive an AI‑first developer culture. Promote the adoption of generative AI coding assistants and modern productivity tools to accelerate software development, automate unit test generation, and streamline code refactoring across your engineering teams.
• End‑to‑End Technical Delivery: Take full accountability for the technical delivery of data services, real‑time pipelines, and platform integrations from inception to production deployment.
• Engineering Excellence: Foster a culture of high‑quality software engineering, enforcing rigorous unit testing, automated integration testing, and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) practices.

• Architectural Adherence: Ensure all engineering deliverables and system designs strictly align with the target enterprise architecture, design patterns, and future‑state roadmaps defined by the Enterprise Architecture teams.
• Technical Design & Review: Lead the technical…