Platform Engineer Lead

Duration: 6+ months Contract (CTH)

Location: Onsite at New York, NY

No C2C or Other Visa

Job Description:
Are you looking for career move that will allow to take a strategic project zero to one? Then bring your extensive coding experience and passion for change and be part of the team building a green-field development at scale By joining Citi’s Common Platform Engineering team, you will be a founding member of the team creating the Generative AI platform for Citi. Our remit encompasses large scale engineering challenges on-premise and on cloud, along with cutting edge use of LLMs to address the use-cases of our users across the bank. You will be joining us right at the beginning of our journey. Although your role will see you lead a team of technical engineers, due to the start-up nature of the team you will be actively coding. So, we need innovative and creative leaders who have had previous experience in developing large-scale platforms involving data, finance, and analytics.

 What you’ll do will be very case and experience driven, but here are some essentials:
Lead a small highly technical team
Design and build high-quality, highly reliable software
Partner closely with other development teams, quants and subject-matter experts in our businesses Ensure our software platforms are compliant with Citi''s security and SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) processes
Run the platform at scale and continue innovating and evolving
Mentor and nurture other engineers to help them grow their skills and expertise What we’ll need from you:
Proven experience as an Engineering Lead, hands on Software Engineering Manager, or similar role
Experienced in and strong knowledge of using AI/ML and more particularly LLMs eager to apply this rapidly changing technology
Strong knowledge and deep experience of Python
Strong distributed systems skills and knowledge
Strong system architecture skills
Experienced in building and running a large platform at scale
Knowledge of Go, Java or other modern languages
Good Knowledge of Kubernetes, Kafka, Restful design
Development experience of at least one public cloud provider