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At Citi, we’re passionate about building and maintaining highly reliable APIs that solve critical customer problems. We support mission-critical systems, empowering our customers with a rich feature set, high availability, and stellar performance levels to pursue their financial transactions. As we continue to expand our API scope and capabilities, we are seeking an experienced and dedicated API Support Lead to ensure the operational excellence and continuous improvement of our API ecosystems. This role requires an individual who brings fresh ideas, demonstrates a unique and informed viewpoint on API reliability, and enjoys collaborating with cross-functional teams to develop real-world solutions and ensure positive user experiences at every interaction. Our ultimate goal is to build proactive and predictive operational strategies, including leveraging intelligent automation, to avoid customer impacts.
Job Responsibility:
Champion stability initiatives to enable high availability and resilience for our API applications
Exhibit calm and analytical leadership when faced with major incidents on critical API systems
Lead the proactive monitoring and management of production API environments
Drive the definition, analysis, and reporting of SLIs and SLOs for all supported APIs and clients
Contribute to the development and implementation of tools and systems designed to enhance API operational management
Measure and optimize API system performance
Provide leadership and expert operational support for critical, large-scale distributed API ecosystems
Lead the gathering and analysis of performance metrics from API platforms and underlying infrastructure
Partner closely with API development teams to improve services through rigorous operational feedback loops, testing, and release procedures
Drive the creation of sustainable API operational systems and services through automation and continuous uplifts
Conduct thorough post-incident reviews for API-related issues
Actively participate in and lead high-priority API production support activities
Requirements:
Extensive experience supporting Java and J2EE based applications and tooling
Deep technical knowledge and hands-on experience supporting and troubleshooting environments including AWS, ECS, Oracle DB, and Mongo DB
A strong understanding and practical application of SRE concepts, particularly in defining and measuring SLIs, SLOs and Error Budgets
Demonstrated experience in building and utilizing comprehensive monitoring solutions such as AppDynamics, Splunk, Kibana to proactively alert on production API-related issues and ensure system health
In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience with API Gateway technologies, specifically APIGEE, and CDN solutions like Akamai
Proven ability to proactively identify and address problems, areas for improvement, and performance bottlenecks within complex API ecosystems using software-based solutions
Strong coding experience beyond simple scripts, preferably in Java or Python, for automation and internal tool development
Bachelor’s/University degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
Nice to have:
Prior experience or awareness of agentic or AI-based solutioning within the API Support domain, particularly for proactive issue detection and resolution
Exposure to ITRS monitoring tools and experience in configuring ITRS gateways
Effective in supporting Payments applications, preferably in corporate banking environments
Strong knowledge of ITIL practices in Incident, Release, Change, and Problem management
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