Head of Product and Engineering - Director

**Director (C15) - Head of Product and Engineering** **Location:** Pune (Hybrid) **Line of Business:** Compliance Technology / Enterprise Technology **About the Role** Are you a product engineering leader who excels at driving massive platform consolidations, leading high-performing global teams, and solving complex distributed systems challenges? Do you believe in solving complex problem through technology simplification and modernisation? At Citi, we are executing a bold, multi-year technology modernisation strategy. A critical pillar of this transformation is the unification of our global compliance enterprise workflow and case management systems. As the **Head of Product and Engineering**, you will be the strategic engineering leader and product visionary responsible for driving the consolidation, modernisation, and scaling of our global compliance case management platforms. In this dual-hatted role, you will: **Lead Global Case Management & Workflow Platforms:** Direct a globally distributed engineering organisation tasked with building and scaling our unified, high-throughput enterprise workflow and decisioning platforms. **Serve as the India Site Lead:** Act as the senior technology executive for our regional engineering hub in India, driving talent strategy, engineering culture, and operational excellence across the site. This is a high-visibility, executive-level role reporting directly to the Managing Director, Global Head of Product and Engineering. **Key Responsibilities** **1\. Technical Strategy ,Platform Unification and Product Management** * **Drive Platform Consolidation:** Define and execute the technical strategy to consolidate disparate legacy workflow and case management systems into a single, modern, global platform. * **Architectural Modernization:** Lead the transition of core platforms to a cloud-native, microservices-based, and event-driven architecture capable of processing millions of complex events daily with sub-second latency. * **AI & Automation Integration:** Partner with AI/ML research teams to embed intelligent routing, automated document processing, and machine learning-driven decision support systems into the core workflow engine. * **Technical Governance:** Establish and enforce robust architectural standards, API designs, and data schemas that ensure long-term platform extensibility and maintainability. * **Product leadership:** Thought leader and ability to wear the product hat. Ability to drive strategic product decision along with key stakeholders **2\. Global Engineering Leadership & Execution** * **Manage Globally Distributed Teams:** Lead, inspire, and scale a multi-disciplinary engineering organization(75+) * **Foster Engineering Excellence:** Establish rigorous standards for code quality, automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and comprehensive observability (monitoring, tracing, logging) to ensure 99.999% platform availability. * **Operational & Financial Management:** Oversee financial planning, resource allocation, vendor management, and operational budgets for your global engineering organisation. * **Cross-Functional Collaboration:** Partner closely with Product Management, Operations, Risk, and senior business executives to align engineering roadmaps with business outcomes. **3\. India Site Leadership** * **Site Strategy & Growth:** Act as the senior executive and site lead for the regional engineering hub in India. Drive local talent acquisition, retention, and career development programs. * **Culture & Collaboration:** Build a vibrant, inclusive, and high-performance engineering culture that mirrors the best practices of top-tier product technology companies. * **Local Governance:** Ensure compliance with local regulations, operational standards, and corporate policies. **Our Target Tech Stack & Architecture** We are actively migrating our platforms to a modern, cloud-native stack: * **Backend & Microservices:** Go, Java (Spring Boot), Python, gRPC, REST APIs * **Frontend & Workflows:** React, Angular, TypeScript, Modern BPMN/Workflow Engines (e.g., Temporal, Camunda, Flowable) * **Data & Event Streaming:** Apache Kafka, Apache Spark, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch * **Cloud & Infrastructure:** Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes, AWS, Service Mesh (Istio) * **AI/ML & Analytics:** Multi-LLM integrations via secure internal gateways, Vector Databases, Python-based ML pipelines **What We’re Looking For (Qualifications)** **Basic Qualifications:** * **Experience:** 15+ years of professional software engineering experience, with 5+ years in an engineering leadership role (Director, Senior Engineering Manager, or equivalent) at Product-Engineering first setup *  **Platform Unification:** Proven track record of successfully leading large-scale platform consolidations, legacy migrations, or enterprise-wide system unifications. * **Distributed Systems:** Deep expertise in designing and operating high-availability, low-latency, and highly secure distributed systems at massive scale. * **Global Leadership:** Experience managing globally distributed engineering teams of 80+ engineers, including direct management of engineering managers and principal architects. * **Site Leadership:** Proven experience leading a regional engineering site or hub, with a strong track record of building local talent pipelines and fostering a strong engineering culture. **Preferred Qualifications:** * **Domain Knowledge:** Experience in compliance, sanctions, transaction risk, anti-money laundering (AML), fraud detection, or high-scale transactional risk systems is highly desirable but not mandatory. We value core engineering leadership and platform-building capabilities above specific domain experience. * **Workflow & BPMN Expertise:** Familiarity with modern workflow orchestration engines (e.g., Temporal, Camunda) and complex state-machine design. * **Education:** Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field. **Why Join Citi?** * **Unprecedented Scale & Impact:** We secure and facilitate the global financial system. The platforms you unify will protect trillions of dollars in daily transactions from financial crime and regulatory risk. * **True Autonomy:** You will have the mandate, budget, and executive backing to make critical architectural and organizational decisions to achieve our platform unification goals. * **Modern Developer Ecosystem:** Leverage Citi's state-of-the-art internal developer platforms, including our secure GenAI gateway and modern serverless application frameworks, to accelerate delivery. **And many more reasons…** \------------------------------------------------------ **Job Family Group:** --------------------- Technology \------------------------------------------------------ **Job Family:** --------------- Applications Development \------------------------------------------------------ **Time Type:** -------------- Full time \------------------------------------------------------ **Most Relevant Skills** ------------------------ Please see the requirements listed above. \------------------------------------------------------ **Other Relevant Skills** ------------------------- For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter. \------------------------------------------------------ _Citi is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law._ _If you are a person with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to use our search tools and/or apply for a career opportunity review_ _[Accessibility at Citi](https://www.citigroup.com/citi/accessibility/application-accessibility.htm)._ _View Citi’s [EEO Policy Statement](https://www.citigroup.com/global/eeo-aa-policy) and the [Know Your Rights](https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf) poster._