About This Role
This high-impact leadership role is responsible for driving the technology strategy, platform engineering, and execution behind Citi’s global wholesale lending and credit lifecycle ecosystem. You will lead teams delivering mission-critical platforms that power loan origination, servicing, syndication, collateral management, and workflow automation for the world’s largest corporate, institutional, and commercial clients. This position is based out of the Mississauga Technology Centre.
Responsibilities
- Ensure platforms adhere to rigorous regulatory commitments, audit readiness, information security mandates, and architectural governance standards
- Collaborate closely with Operations Leaders, Product Managers, Quantitative Analysts, Credit Risk Officers, and Global Architecture teams to align technology roadmaps with core business priorities
- Pioneer and institutionalize the adoption of GenAI developer tools, coding copilots, and automated CI/CD gating to accelerate development throughput and code quality
- Enforce best-in-class distributed systems engineering, API-first integrations, resilient event-driven pipelines (e.g., Kafka), and modern UI/micro-frontend architectures
- Cultivate a culture of test automation, shift-left security, chaos engineering, and zero-downtime release practices
- Recruit, develop, and inspire top-tier software engineers, technical leads, and architects at the Mississauga site while orchestrating seamlessly with distributed global pods
- Foster an engineering culture defined by technical curiosity, continuous learning, psychological safety, and clear career progression pathways
Requirements
- 10+ years of relevant experience
- Strong background in Wholesale Lending
- Familiarity with loan platforms is highly desirable
- Deep technical foundation in modern programming languages and frameworks (e.g., Java/Spring Boot, Python, React/Angular), microservices architecture, and event streaming (Kafka/MQ)
- Hands-on experience with containerization (Docker, OpenShift/Kubernetes), CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks, and modern infrastructure-as-code
- Active champion of modern developer tooling, GenAI productivity assistants, automated code analysis, and DevOps telemetry
- Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
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About the Company
Citi is an equal opportunity employer.
