Head of Product and Engineering - Director
No salary listed
Expert
Bachelor's, Master's
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Hybrid
Engineering ManagementEngineering Leadership
About the job
Requirements
- At least 15 years of professional software engineering experience, including at least 5 years in an engineering leadership role such as Director or Senior Engineering Manager at a product-engineering-first organization.
- A proven track record of leading large-scale platform consolidations, legacy migrations, or enterprise-wide system unifications.
- Deep expertise in designing and operating highly available, low-latency, highly secure distributed systems at massive scale.
- Experience managing globally distributed engineering teams of 80+ engineers, including direct management of engineering managers and principal architects.
- Proven experience leading a regional engineering site or hub, building local talent pipelines, and fostering a strong engineering culture.
Responsibilities
- Define and execute technical strategy to consolidate legacy workflow and case management systems into a single modern global platform.
- Lead migration of core platforms to cloud-native, microservices-based, event-driven architecture designed to process millions of complex events daily with sub-second latency.
- Partner with AI and machine learning research teams to integrate intelligent routing, automated document processing, and machine-learning-driven decision support into the workflow engine.
- Establish and enforce architectural standards, API designs, and data schemas for extensibility and maintainability.
- Drive strategic product decisions with key stakeholders as a product leader.
- Lead, inspire, and scale a multidisciplinary global engineering organization of 75+ people.
- Set standards for code quality, automated testing, continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines, and observability, including monitoring, tracing, and logging, to support 99.999% platform availability.
- Oversee financial planning, resource allocation, vendor management, and operational budgets for the global engineering organization.
- Partner with Product Management, Operations, Risk, and senior business executives to align engineering roadmaps with business outcomes.
- Serve as senior executive and site lead for the regional engineering hub in India, driving local talent acquisition, retention, and career development programs.
- Build an inclusive, high-performance engineering culture and foster collaboration.
- Ensure compliance with local regulations, operational standards, and corporate policies.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in compliance, sanctions, transaction risk, anti-money laundering, fraud detection, or high-scale transactional risk systems.
- Familiarity with modern workflow orchestration engines such as Temporal or Camunda and complex state-machine design.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
About the company
Citi runs banking, investment and payment services for companies, governments and individuals around the world. Its global network connects institutions with local banking systems, while its US consumer business sells credit cards and deposit accounts. Corporate clients use Citi to manage cash, finance trade and raise capital, and investors use its trading, custody and wealth services to hold and manage assets. The bank earns interest on loans and fees from payments, securities transactions, financial advice and account services. Citi traces its banking roots to 1812; the Citigroup holding company was formed in 1998, and its headquarters are in New York City.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
New York City, New York
Founded
1812
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Revenue is expanding: Citi reported $24.8 billion in the June 2026 quarter, up 14% year over year.
- US parents get protected time: eligible Citi employees receive 16 weeks of bonding leave at full base pay.
- Institutional deposits are sticky: Citi says around 80% of Services deposits come from clients with relationships exceeding 15 years.
What critics are saying
- Lending losses remain substantial: Citi's net credit losses reached $2.4 billion in the June 2026 quarter.
- Australian hybrid roles require office time: Citi sets a minimum of three office days weekly for designated hybrid positions.
- Job cuts carry a cost: Citi booked roughly $500 million in severance in the March 2026 quarter.
What makes Citi unique
- Corporate payments move at scale: Citi processes around $6 trillion daily through its Treasury and Trade business.
- Deposits move beyond banking hours: Citi Token Services transfers cash between participating Citi branches around the clock.
- Employees use a shared AI workspace: Citi's Stylus platform reaches over 180,000 people for research and multi-step workflows.
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Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Disability Insurance
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- 401(k) Company Match
- Wellness Program
- Paid Vacation
- Paid Sick Leave
- Paid Holidays