Cloud Engineer - Vice President

About the Role

We are seeking a hands-on full-stack senior engineer who is passionate about solving business problems through innovation and engineering practices. The senior engineer plays a significant role in crafting and maintaining the strategic partnership between business needs and technology delivery within an Agile team. This role involves planning, designing, developing, and launching efficient systems and solutions to support core organizational functions. As a recognized technical authority, you will contribute to directional strategy and deliver solutions against sprint-level commitments.

Responsibilities

• Architect, design, and personally implement highly complex and critical architectural components, foundational services, and advanced AI agentic proofs-of-concept. Your code will set the standard for quality, performance, and maintainability across the portfolio.
• Continuously improve software development processes through automation and AI solutions.
• Direct teams on developing and delivering systems that are efficient with resource usage such as hardware, runtime, performance, load, and memory requirements.
• Provide architectural guidance, conduct design reviews, and code reviews for projects within your line of business.
• Effectively communicate progress, manage bottlenecks, assess and mitigate risks, ensuring compliance and safeguarding organizational interests.
• Leverage AI tools and Python-based agentic frameworks to enhance development efficiency and optimize software solutions. Stay updated on the evolving AI landscape to propose and implement innovative product features.
• Analyze and troubleshoot complex coding, performance, and design challenges, including AI model integration and agent orchestration.

Requirements

• Minimum of 10 years in software development with strong expertise in Java, Python, Spring Boot, React, Oracle, and Postgres/Oracle.
• In-depth knowledge of modern application architecture, data structures, and object-oriented principles (Java, Python).
• Proven experience in architecting and building scalable, highly available, resilient, and low-latency applications.
• Practical experience with AI tools and AI agentic frameworks for development workflows.
• Proficiency in Microservices (Spring Boot, Python frameworks like Flask/Django), Event-Driven Services, and Cloud-Native Development, including REST and GraphQL.
• Experience with Container Orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift).
• Strong CI/CD pipeline proficiency (Maven, Gradle, Poetry, Docker, Jenkins).
• AWS experience is a significant plus.
• Full-stack proficiency: ability to design, develop, and maintain both front-end (React) and back-end (Java, Python) components.
• Capable of designing and implementing high-performance RESTful APIs.
• Experience with Agile methodologies (JIRA) and code versioning tools (GitHub Enterprise, Bitbucket).
• Ability to develop comprehensive unit, integration, and end-to-end tests.

Qualifications

A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field is required.

Pay

Full-time salary range: $125,600.00 - $188,400.00. In addition to salary, Citi’s offerings may include, for eligible employees, discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401(k) plan.
• Life, accident, and disability insurance.
• Wellness programs.
• Paid time off packages, including vacation, sick leave, and holidays.

Schedule

Full time.

Location

Tampa, Florida, United States.