Principal Engineer - Senior Vice President

SVP (C14) - Principal Engineer Location: Pune(Hybrid) Line of Business: Compliance Technology / Enterprise Technology About the Role Are you a Principal Engineer who thrives on solving complex, high-scale engineering challenges? Do you want to build the future of global compliance using AI-native technologies, modern full-stack architectures, and massive-scale big data systems? At Citi, we are undergoing a massive technology transformation and simplification. We are moving away from legacy paradigms to build a modern, developer-first, and AI-native engineering ecosystem. We are establishing platform engineering culture. As a Principal Engineer , you will be a hands-on technical leader driving the architecture and implementation of our next-generation enterprise platforms, simplification and optimisation initiatives across compliance technology. You will have the opportunity to leverage and contribute to Citi’s cutting-edge ai-native internal platforms(secure, multi-LLM GenAI gateway ,modern application platform utilizing Knative serverless functions and blueprint-driven architectures and our next-generation, high-velocity CI/CD developer platform). If you are passionate about writing clean code, designing resilient, highly available distributed systems, and embraces AI and system thinking to bring simplification & transformation, we want to talk to you. What You’ll Do (Key Responsibilities) Technical Leadership & Hands-on Coding: Act as the primary technical authority for your domain. You will spend ~60-70% of your time writing high-quality, production-ready code, conducting deep code reviews, and building reusable components/blueprints, redesigning existing application with system thinking and simplification as first principal AI-Native Engineering: Architect and build intelligent, agentic workflows and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems. Integrate LLMs securely at scale using our internal R2D2 GenAI gateway to automate complex financial operations and enhance developer productivity. Enterprise Architecture & Scalability: Design and implement highly resilient, low-latency, and fault-tolerant distributed systems. Define microservices boundaries, event-driven architectures, and API standards that scale to handle screening of billions of transactions daily. Full-Stack & Big Data Integration: Bridge the gap between high-performance backends and modern, intuitive frontends. Bring in data density to the organization by unifying data collection, processing and reporting. Architect/redesign real-time and batch data pipelines Developer Experience (DevEx) Advocacy: Champion modern engineering practices. Drive the adoption of inner-sourcing, automated testing, robust observability, and continuous delivery via our CI/CD platform. Inculcate AI-native culture in the team. Mentorship & Culture: Foster a culture of engineering excellence, psychological safety, and continuous learning. Mentor senior and staff engineers, helping them grow their technical careers. Our Tech Stack & Ecosystem We believe in using the right tool for the job. Our modern ecosystem includes: Languages: Go, Java (Spring Boot), Python, TypeScript/JavaScript Frontend: React, Angular, Micro-frontends AI & GenAI: Multi-LLM Gateway, Understanding and knowledge of LangChain, LlamaIndex, Vector Databases, Vertex AI, Big Data & Analytics: Apache Kafka, Apache Spark, Apache Flink, Hadoop, Snowflake, Databricks Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS, Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes, HashiCorp Vault CI/CD & DevEx: What We’re Looking For (Qualifications) Basic Qualifications:

12+ years of professional software engineering experience as Principal/Sr. Staff/Staff engineer, with a proven track record of technical leadership in a product-engineering led setup System Design: Deep expertise in designing, building, and operating large-scale, distributed, enterprise-grade systems in hybrid or public cloud environments (AWS/GCP/openshift). Full-Stack Proficiency: Strong