Engineering Lead – Sanctions Platform

About Citi:

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. As a financial institution that touches every region of the world and every sector that shapes your daily life, our Enterprise Operations & Technology teams are charged with a mission that rivals any large tech company. Our technology solutions are the foundations of everything we do from keeping the bank safe, managing global resources, and providing the technical tools our workers need to be successful to 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.

About the Team:

The Engineering Lead – Payments Sanctions Platform is a senior-level individual contributor and technical architect trusted to define the architectural direction of Citi's sanctions screening infrastructure within the payments ecosystem at one of the world's most consequential financial institutions.

This is not a role for those content with maintaining the status quo. The ideal candidate brings a rare combination of deep technical mastery and systems-level thinking — someone who can architect resilient, AI-powered microservices that power real-time sanctions screening across high-volume payment transactions, and translate that work into meaningful outcomes for Citi's clients, regulators, and partners across the globe. As a senior technical leader on the Payments Sanctions Platform team, this professional will be at the forefront of Citi's compliance technology evolution, shaping platforms that are not only performant and secure, but self-healing, intelligent, and built to withstand the highest regulatory scrutiny.

In this role, the successful candidate will operate at the intersection of deep technical expertise and informal leadership — collaborating with cross-functional teams, compliance and sanctions officers, product owners, and senior stakeholders to deliver solutions that are as accurate as they are resilient. They will drive the adoption of cutting-edge methodologies, mentor and advise engineers across the team, and ensure every technical decision reflects Citi's unwavering commitment to regulatory compliance, resilience, and client trust.

This is an opportunity to build something that matters — at a scale few institutions can offer, while remaining hands-on with the architecture and technology itself.

• Lead integration of functions to meet goals, deploy new sanctions screening capabilities, and enhance real-time transaction screening workflows
• Analyze complex business…