Java Full Stack Lead - Vice President

• Designs, develops, and maintains production-grade software systems with a strong emphasis on reliability, scalability, and operational excellence across Citi's global technology estate
• Architects and implements agentic AI workflows — building autonomous systems that can reason, plan, and act across production environments with minimal human intervention
• Applies advanced prompt engineering techniques to integrate large language models (LLMs) into operational tooling, incident response pipelines, and developer productivity platforms
• Leads the development of AI-native observability solutions — leveraging intelligent agents to detect anomalies, predict failures, and automate remediation before issues impact end users
• Writes clean, well-tested, and well-documented code across the full stack
• champions engineering best practices including code review, pair programming, and test-driven development
• Drives Continuous Delivery and Automation efforts across supported applications by means of Root Cause Analysis reviews, knowledge management, performance tuning, and user training
• Operates and evolves CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure-as-Code tooling, and GitOps workflows to support rapid, safe delivery of software at scale
• Collaborates with platform, data, and product engineering teams to embed AI capabilities into the production lifecycle — from deployment to decommission
• Implements the Agile Framework through one of its implementations (SCRUM or Kanban) and ensures it integrates with overall organisation processes
• Operates within a highly regulated financial environment, maintaining in-depth understanding of compliance requirements and their implications for system design and data handling
• Coaches and mentors team members on AI engineering practices, prompt design patterns, and agentic system architecture — fostering a culture of continuous learning and technical excellence
• Avidly communicates progress and project status across the organisation and ensures that stakeholders are managed appropriately throughout the execution period
• Fosters a culture that promotes transparency and innovation for increased team productivity

• Demonstrable experience in a critical software engineering or production engineering role with high business impact and a strong programming foundation (Java, Python, Go, or equivalent)
• Hands-on experience with AI/ML engineering — including working with LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, or open-source equivalents), embedding models, and vector databases
• Proven expertise in prompt engineering: designing, iterating, and evaluating prompts for production use cases including classification, summarisation, code generation, and autonomous decision-making
• Experience designing and deploying agentic systems using frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, or equivalent — including multi-agent orchestration and tool-use patterns
• Excellent engineering skills and strong understanding of Software Development Lifecycle, GitOps, and modern DevSecOps practices
• Excellent working knowledge of key computer science concepts (networking, operating systems, virtualisation, containerisation, etc.)
• Polyglot full-stack developer mentality and ability to pick up new languages and skills
• Excellent debugging and analytical skills: ability to isolate root cause across networking/infrastructure, application, and database stacks
• Operational experience of deploying and running services at scale on top of Docker/Kubernetes stack and a service mesh (Istio or equivalent) is highly desirable
• Operational experience with orchestration tools for CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code tooling (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, etc.) is highly desirable
• Experience of delivering software using Agile delivery methodologies is a must (SCRUM/Kanban)
• Operational experience of using middleware technologies (MQ, Apache Kafka, etc.) to run services at scale is desirable
• Strong experience with end-to-end observability stacks (Datadog, AppDynamics, Dynatrace, etc.) is desirable
• Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or a related technical subject is desirable
• Experience of senior stakeholder management
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to operate in a global environment with on-/near-/off-shore matrix reporting structures
• Learnability
• Teachability
• Flexibility & Adaptability
• Engineering Mindset
• Product-Minded Thinking
• Collaborative Spirit
• Intellectual Curiosity
• Ownership & Accountability

• Operational experience of deploying and running services at scale on top of Docker/Kubernetes stack and a service mesh (Istio or equivalent) is highly desirable
• Operational experience with orchestration tools for CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code tooling (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, etc.) is highly desirable
• Operational experience of using middleware technologies (MQ, Apache Kafka, etc.) to run services at scale is desirable
• Strong experience with end-to-end observability stacks (Datadog, AppDynamics, Dynatrace, etc.) is desirable
• Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or a related technical subject is desirable

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