Digital Asset Platform Engineering Team Lead - SVP

Citi's Integrated Digital Asset Platform (CIDAP) represents the firm's foundational infrastructure for digital finance — a mission-critical, globally distributed platform operating at the intersection of institutional financial services and next-generation technology. We are seeking an exceptional senior engineering leader to serve as SVP, Team Lead, with full accountability for the platform's engineering resilience, strategic observability posture, and end-to-end production operations lifecycle across a complex, multi-stakeholder ecosystem. This is a   strategic leadership mandate . You will architect the firm's approach to platform hardening, define the engineering standards that govern CIDAP's long-term reliability, and serve as the senior engineering authority across internal and external partner relationships. You will be expected to lead through influence, elevate engineering culture, and translate complex technical realities into clear, consequential decisions for senior business and technology leadership.

Orchestrate alignment across senior engineering, business, operations, and compliance leadership to ensure platform capabilities integrate with enterprise-wide strategic objectives; proactively identify systemic gaps and champion programs to deliver scalable product and process transformation Define and own the long-term strategic roadmap for CIDAP platform hardening, resilience, and operational maturity — translating engineering priorities into business cases and executive-level recommendations Serve as the senior architectural authority for CIDAP, ensuring all design decisions, technology choices, and implementation patterns align with Citi's strategic architecture blueprint and enterprise standards Establish, enforce, and continuously evolve rigorous engineering standards across the full software development lifecycle — encompassing architectural design patterns, coding standards, testing frameworks, and secure implementation practices Define and drive the strategic roadmap for platform resilience, including advanced observability frameworks, self-healing architectures, fault tolerance, disaster recovery capabilities, and comprehensive monitoring infrastructure Ensure CIDAP consistently meets institutional-grade uptime, performance, and reliability commitments through disciplined engineering investment and proactive risk mitigation Assume executive ownership of the complete incident management lifecycle across L1, L2, and L3 support tiers, with full accountability for root cause analysis, strategic remediation, post-incident reviews, and systemic prevention programs Define and govern SLAs, KPIs, and escalation frameworks that reflect institutional production standards and partner expectations Drive resolution of the most consequential and complex technical challenges — including systemic platform risks, cross-domain integration failures, and critical production incidents — through rigorous, first-principles analysis of business processes, system behavior, and industry-leading standards Cultivate and govern strategic relationships with internal business partners, external technology providers, and production support organizations Serve as the primary engineering liaison at senior leadership forums, articulating complex technical risk, capability roadmaps, and investment rationale with clarity and executive presence Exercise senior judgment in assessing and managing risk across all platform engineering decisions; champion full compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and Citi policy frameworks Maintain full transparency in escalating, managing, and reporting control issues; model exemplary ethical conduct and ensure all platform practices safeguard Citi, its clients, and the firm's institutional reputation Provide inspirational leadership, coaching, and mentorship to senior engineers, architects, and team leads; establish high-performance engineering culture and career