Java Engineering Lead - Senior Vice President

Overview

Senior management role managing multiple teams in Applications Development, driving applications systems analysis and programming activities and establishing or revising application systems and programs in coordination with the Technology Team.

What you'll do

• Manage multiple teams of professionals to accomplish established goals and conduct personnel duties for the team (e.g. performance evaluations, hiring and disciplinary actions).
• Provide strategic influence and exercise control over resources, budget management and planning while monitoring end results.
• Utilize in-depth knowledge of concepts and procedures within own area and basic knowledge of other areas to resolve issues.
• Ensure essential procedures are followed and contribute to defining standards.
• Integrate in-depth knowledge of applications development with the overall technology function to achieve established goals.
• Provide evaluative judgement based on analysis of facts in complicated, unique, and dynamic situations, drawing from internal and external sources.
• Influence and negotiate with senior leaders across functions, and communicate with external parties as necessary.
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, with particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.
• Effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.

What you'll need

• 15+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience in applications development.
• Experience in management.
• Experience managing global technology teams.
• Working knowledge of industry practices and standards.
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication.
• Strong proficiency in Python and standard data/testing ecosystems (e.g., pytest, numpy, pandas, scikit-learn).
• Deep practical experience with AI/LLM evaluation frameworks and tools such as Ragas, DeepEval, Promptfoo, TruLens, Giskard, LangSmith, or Weights & Biases.
• Familiarity with foundation model APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Azure OpenAI, Google Vertex AI, Hugging Face) and orchestration frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex).
• Hands-on experience integrating model test suites into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Tekton, Jenkins) and MLOps platforms (MLflow, Kubeflow).
• Demonstrated knowledge of OWASP Top 10 for LLMs, prompt injection defense testing, safety guardrails (e.g., NeMo Guardrails, Llama Guard), and PII masking validation.
• Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience.

Nice to have

• Master's degree.

Details

• Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India.
• Employment type: Full time.