Tech Lead Engineer

citi
London

Citi’s Operations & Technology organization (O&T) is driving an innovative Cloud First strategy that works to optimize the IT environment, reduce complexity, and implement high degrees of automation to enable more agile application delivery. We aim to give Citi businesses a competitive edge by leveraging cloud scale architectures and enabling new infrastructure economics. O&T operates as a technology company focused on implementing scalable and innovative next gen technology solutions that will shape the future of global banking.

The Public Cloud Engineer will implement cloud architecture (on AWS, GCP and Azure) that enables the infrastructure (compute, database network, storage, observability) required for application hosting in public cloud using Citi’s engineering processes and best practices, with particular emphasis on automation and security by design.

Experience essentials ( Non-negotiable) :

  • Developer experience across multiple languages – Java, Python etc. 

  • Cloud platforms, more than once cloud AWS, GCP or Azure,

  • Has built CICD / SDLC pipelines for example Terraform and Harness

  • Performed as tech lead within a specialist domain eg. tech lead for container or data platforms

Value add experience:

  • Networking, transit gateways, proxy, NSG, SG, Load Balancers, VPCs

  • Cloud security (wiz, sentinel) 

  • Compute in cloud Amazons EKS, Faregate, Lambda, Google GKE, AKS, Argo CD, Storage S3, EFS, EBS or GCS, blob 

  • Data services: Cloud Databases, Machine learning, analytics

  • Messaging Pub/Sub services such as Kafka, Rabbit MQ

  • Cache / search technologies such as Elasticache / Elasti search

  • API services such as apigee / kong

  • Elementary, Observability and monitoring

  • Identity and access management, dynamic keys and certificates

  • Test driven development 

  • More than 5-7 years of cloud real world experience, any where, not just a bank

Characteristics:

  • Can lead technology decisions and align team outcomes

  • Enjoys mentoring and working with remote teams

  • Outcome orientated, can self organize and help team members break down work

  • Leads by example

  • Proactive, grabs tickets and asks for help when needed

  • Team orientated, ready to jump in and helpAgile, can context switch is prepared to pivot when needed

  • Likes to solve problems, questions the why to understand the what.

  • Enjoys learning, interested in growing their technology skills 

What you can expect:

  • Massive scale, working to deliver one of the largest cloud programs in the world

  • To engineer platforms and services across Google and AWS 

  • Working in an agile empowered team to solve complex problems

  • Engineering emergent technologies to create value across Citi

We offer:

By joining Citi London, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), but also receive a competitive base salary (which is annually reviewed), and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits such as:

  • 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)

  • A discretional annual performance related bonus

  • Private Medical Care & Life Insurance

  • Employee Assistance Program

  • Pension Plan

  • Paid Parental Leave

  • Special discounts for employees, family, and friends

  • Access to an array of learning and development resources

Alongside these benefits Citi is committed to ensuring our workplace is where everyone feels comfortable coming to work as their whole self, every day. We want the best talent around the world to be energized to join us, motivated to stay and empowered to thrive.

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Job Family Group:

Technology

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Job Family:

Systems & Engineering

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Time Type:

Full time

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Most Relevant Skills

Please see the requirements listed above.

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Other Relevant Skills

For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

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Posted 2025-08-17

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