Citi's Payments Technology group is hiring a Technology Director to architect and lead one of the critical API based shared services platform. This platform sits at the intersection of engineering ambition and real-world financial impact — for a wide range of internal and external consumers. This is a rare chance for a hands-on engineering leader to own a multi-year technical roadmap, build and scale a world-class global engineering organization, and deliver AI-first, cloud-native systems that operate with the highest standards of availability across multiple geographies and regulatory environments. If you are energized by hard engineering problems, thrive at the intersection of technical depth and organizational scale, and want your work to matter at a global level — this role is built for you.
Responsibilities
Own the end-to-end technical strategy and multi-year roadmap for a foundational payments infrastructure platform — making architectural decisions that determine how a high-throughput, multi-consumer API ecosystem evolves across global markets.




Design and deliver highly available, fault-tolerant distributed systems across multiple geographic regions, with architectures that maintain platform continuity, data sovereignty compliance, and consistent service levels across jurisdictions with differing regulatory requirements.
Drive an AI-first engineering culture — embedding intelligent automation, ML-powered decisioning, and LLM tooling into both the platform and the team's day-to-day engineering practices to accelerate delivery velocity and raise the quality bar.
Architect and govern a high-performance, API-first platform that acts as a critical dependency for multiple payment processors — serving a diverse ecosystem of internal and external consumers across payment types ranging from real-time instant payments to high-value cross-border flows.
Lead, grow, and develop a global engineering organization of 50+ engineers and architects — building a team enviro

📌 Director - Technical Engineering Lead (Full stack) (Pune)
🏢 Citi
📍 Pune