Overview of the Role:
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 architect
ure 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.
Are you a talented Technical Engineering Leader looking for their next challenge? Do you have a passion for building cutting-edge enterprise products and a hands-on approach to engineering? Join Citi's Cloud Technology Services (CTS) team and be part of our commitment to transform Citi technology, leveraging game-changing Cloud capabilities to drive agility, efficiency, and innovation.
We are providing our businesses with a competitive edge by leveraging public cloud scale and enabling new infrastructure economics. As an Engineering Lead within the Network Infrastructure Team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and executing our public cloud strategy.
You will be part of a Public Cloud team that continues to deliver big by designing and managing the platform that enables the automated deployment of foundational resources globally across multiple public clouds. This foundation enables the business to deploy critical workloads, from building a cloud base High Performance Compute (HPC) platform to run huge risk calculations, enabling Citi to leverage GenAI at scale, all the way to enabling payment solutions, this team is at the forefront of innovation.
Role Description:
The ideal candidate will have experience of leading a team of talented engineers who are responsible for designing, certifying, deploying and securing network resources within AWS and GCP. The role requires a leader with strong technical skills and the ability to collaborate with stakeholders and partners throughout the full resource provisioning life cycle, from inception and design, to deployment, operational management and iterative refinement.
As an Engineering Lead within the Network Infrastructure Team, you will be responsible in developing strategy building on the existing platform architecture, delivering the tooling and services required to support the deployment and securing of cloud network resources.
The Network Infrastructure Team is based in multiple locations across the globe and comprises of Architects, Cloud Engineers and Security Engineers.
What you’ll do:
- Strategic Vision: define and articulate a comprehensive vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for the network engineering team, ensuring alignment with overall enterprise technology strategy and business objectives.
- Team Development: work with the team and help develop the engineers technical and soft skills, create developments plans and support team member career aspirations.
- Architectural Design: develop and maintain system architectures, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance.
- Performance Optimization: monitor system performance and identify areas for optimization, ensuring efficient resource utilization.
- Engineering Excellence: ensure the team follow engineering best practices and industry standards, using modern tooling that enables CI/CD and favors automation, auditability, automated testing, infrastructure and policy as code.
- Collaborative Engineering: work with a talented team of cloud network and security engineers and full-stack software developers.
- Innovate and Automate: identify and develop automated solutions as part of continual improvement to reduce the time to market of cloud services, enhancing client satisfaction and delivering business value.
- Cross-Functional Partnership: collaborate with teams across Citi's technology landscape to ensure alignment between public cloud initiatives and broader business goals.
- Compliance Advocacy: ensure adherence to relevant standards, policies and regulations, prioritizing the protection of Citi's reputation, clients and assets.
What we will need from you:
You will be a talented and experienced technical leader who has previously lead a cloud engineering team. You will have a proven track record of delivering critical and complex infrastructure. Your team is responsible for design, testing and deployment via Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- 10+ years of progressive experience technical leader, strong technical skills with a significant experience leading a cloud engineering team.
- Proven experience leading an engineering team in a complex dynamic corporate environment.
- Expert level understanding of public cloud network infrastructure services available in AWS and GCP.
- Expert level understanding of cloud security best practices and compliance frameworks in AWS and GCP.
- Knowledge of Kubernetes, understanding of best practices relating to configuration including security and orchestration tools for AWS EKS and GCP GKE.
- Knowledge of network and security theory, including router and firewall operations.
- Experience of working with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) pipelines, including working with Terraform, Python and Go.
Education:
- Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience, potentially Masters degree
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Job Family Group: Technology------------------------------------------------------
Job Family:Systems & Engineering------------------------------------------------------
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Primary Location:Irving Texas United States------------------------------------------------------
Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:$156 160,00 - $234 240,00
In addition to salary, Citi’s offerings may also include, for eligible employees, discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards. Citi offers competitive employee benefits, including: medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs. Citi also offers paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays. For additional information regarding Citi employee benefits, please visit citibenefits.com. Available offerings may vary by jurisdiction, job level, and date of hire.
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Most Relevant Skills Please see the requirements listed above.------------------------------------------------------
Other Relevant Skills For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.------------------------------------------------------
Anticipated Posting Close Date:oct 12, 2026------------------------------------------------------
Automated Processing and AIWe use automated processing, including artificial intelligence, for our legitimate business interests (or our reasonable and appropriate business purposes) to identify and align the candidate's skills and abilities with a specific job opening. Additionally, if you so choose, or consent, we can match your skills and abilities to other suitable roles at Citi.
Importantly, all our hiring processes and decisions, including determining your suitability for a role, are conducted, checked, and decided by individuals. Our automated processing and AI do not involve relying on automatic or autonomous decision-making. Please refer to any Jurisdictional Considerations, with specific provisions for your country (where relevant) for further details.
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Skills Required
- 10+ years of progressive technical leadership experience
- Significant experience leading a cloud engineering team
- Proven experience leading an engineering team in a complex corporate environment
- Expert-level understanding of public cloud network infrastructure services in AWS and GCP
- Expert-level understanding of cloud security best practices and compliance frameworks in AWS and GCP
- Knowledge of Kubernetes configuration, security, and orchestration best practices, including AWS EKS and GCP GKE
- Knowledge of network and security theory, including router and firewall operations
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code pipelines
- Experience with Terraform, Python, and Go
- Bachelor's or university degree, or equivalent experience
- Master's degree
Citi Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Citi and has not been reviewed or approved by Citi.
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Healthcare Strength — Benefits coverage is positioned as comprehensive, including health, dental, and vision insurance plus on-site clinics, prescription drug support, and disability coverage. Family-building support such as fertility assistance is described as a notable differentiator within the overall package.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits are framed as strong, highlighted by a 401(k) with matching and additional plan options like a Roth 401(k). Financial support is reinforced through discounts and broader financial guidance resources tied to the benefits ecosystem.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing support extends beyond insurance through programs like an Employee Assistance Program, counseling/legal resources, and gym or wellness reimbursement. These offerings increase the perceived total rewards value even when cash compensation sentiment varies by role.
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What We Do
Citi's mission is to serve as a trusted partner to our clients by responsibly providing financial services that enable growth and economic progress. Our core activities are safeguarding assets, lending money, making payments and accessing the capital markets on behalf of our clients. We have 200 years of experience helping our clients meet the world's toughest challenges and embrace its greatest opportunities. We are Citi, the global bank – an institution connecting millions of people across hundreds of countries and cities.
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