Digital Assets Platform Engineering Team Lead - SVP

Citi is seeking a highly accomplished and visionary  SVP, Digital Assets Platform Engineering Lead  to spearhead the continued evolution of the  Citi Integrated Digital Assets Platform (CIDAP) . This is a senior leadership role requiring a rare combination of deep technical mastery, strategic thinking, and proven people leadership. The successful candidate will serve as both a technical authority and a team lead, guiding a high-performing group of engineers in the design, delivery, and operationalization of enterprise-grade blockchain and digital assets infrastructure at global scale. This individual will be a key voice in shaping Citi's digital assets engineering strategy, working at the intersection of traditional financial services technology and the emerging decentralized ecosystem. As a SVP leader, you will operate with a high degree of autonomy, influence cross-functional outcomes, and be accountable for the platform's technical direction, engineering quality, and talent development. You will represent the engineering function to senior stakeholders across Technology, Business, Risk, and Compliance, and will be expected to translate complex technical concepts into strategic business outcomes. The ideal candidate brings a start-up builder's mindset, a disciplined enterprise engineer's rigor, and the executive presence to lead, inspire, and align large teams across a globally distributed organization.

Technical Leadership & Architecture Define and own the end-to-end technical strategy and architecture for the CIDAP platform, ensuring alignment with Citi's enterprise technology standards, risk appetite, and long-term business objectives Provide authoritative technical guidance on backend engineering (Java/Spring), Web3 infrastructure, blockchain integration patterns, and distributed systems design Champion engineering excellence across the platform — setting the bar for code quality, system resilience, scalability, and performance Evaluate and introduce emerging technologies, frameworks, and industry best practices in blockchain, digital assets, and enterprise backend engineering to keep Citi at the forefront of the space Drive architectural decisions and review critical design proposals, ensuring solutions are robust, maintainable, and aligned with organizational standards   Team Leadership & Talent Development Lead, mentor, and develop a team of senior software engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous learning Set clear technical and professional growth expectations for direct reports; provide ongoing coaching, performance feedback, and career development guidance Recruit and retain top engineering talent, contributing to workforce planning and capability building across the digital assets engineering practice Cultivate psychological safety, inclusion, and a high-performance team culture within a globally distributed engineering environment   Delivery & Execution Own the platform's engineering delivery commitments — accountable for on-time, on-budget, and high-quality delivery of complex, multi-workstream initiatives Drive Agile engineering practices across the team, ensuring effective sprint planning, backlog prioritization, dependency management, and retrospective-driven improvement Define and enforce engineering quality standards including test coverage, code review practices, documentation, and CI/CD pipeline discipline Proactively identify, escalate, and resolve technical risks, blockers, and cross-team dependencies to ensure project momentum and stakeholder confidence   Qualifications & Experience Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline required; Master's or PhD in Computer Science strongly preferred Extensive progressive software engineering experience across the full software development and testing lifecycle, with demonstrated growth into senior technical leadership roles; experience within