GenAI Tech Lead- Senior Vice President

We are seeking a results-driven Generative AI practitioner with end-to-end experience for the execution and deployment of cutting-edge Generative AI and agentic AI solutions across our enterprise-wide Controls Technology platform. In this role, you will be responsible for translating AI strategy into tangible, production-ready capabilities that enhance operational efficiencies and drive business value. We're looking for someone who combines deep technical expertise in generative AI — including context engineering, retrieval systems, knowledge graphs, and multi-agent orchestration — with a proven track record of successfully delivering complex technology projects. This role centers on architecting and delivering solutions built on pre-trained and hosted foundation models, not on training or fine-tuning models.

Key Responsibilities

GenAI Delivery Leadership: Execute the delivery roadmap for generative and agentic AI projects, ensuring alignment with business objectives and timelines. Manage the project lifecycle from ideation and scoping to deployment and post-launch support.

Team Leadership & Mentorship: Build, mentor, and manage a high-performing team of AI engineers and specialists. Foster a culture of execution, collaboration, and continuous improvement to successfully deliver on the AI roadmap.

End-to-End Solution Delivery: Oversee the design, development, and deployment of robust, scalable, and production-ready GenAI and agentic applications. Ensure all solutions meet rigorous performance, security, and quality standards before and after deployment.

Agentic Solution Delivery: Drive the design and delivery of agentic workflows and multi-agent systems , establishing standards for agent harnesses , orchestration patterns, and reliable long-running agent execution across the platform.

Stakeholder & Program Management: Serve as the primary point of contact for GenAI delivery. Manage stakeholder expectations, communicate project progress, identify and mitigate risks, and ensure on-time and on-budget delivery.

Cross-Functional Partnership: Collaborate closely with Data Mesh, Cloud Architecture, MLOps/LLMOps, and business unit teams to ensure the seamless integration and operationalization of GenAI and agentic solutions into our existing technology ecosystem.

Technical Excellence & Best Practices: Drive the adoption of best practices in software development (CI/CD), LLMOps, agent observability, and project management (Agile/Scrum) within the AI team to ensure efficient and repeatable delivery.

Governance & Ethical Deployment: Implement and enforce robust governance and ethical AI frameworks throughout the delivery process — including guardrails, agent isolation/sandboxing, and responsible AI practices — ensuring compliance with data privacy standards and corporate policies.

Required Technical Skills

Core Generative AI Concepts: Deep understanding of foundation models, LLMs, embeddings, tokenization, and context-window management. Fluent in applying pre-trained and hosted models to enterprise use cases.

Context Engineering: Expertise in advanced context engineering — context layering, chaining, compression, pruning/offloading, and memory management — to maximize reliability, provenance, and token efficiency in production.

Prompt Engineering: Adept at advanced prompt engineering techniques and best practices, with familiarity with frameworks that facilitate effective prompt design and management.

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG): Advanced knowledge of RAG techniques, including hybrid search, multi-vector retrieval, Hypothetical Document Embeddings (HyDE), self-querying, query expansion, re-ranking, and relevance filtering.

Knowledge Graphs & Graph RAG: Experience designing and delivering knowledge graphs (e.g., using graph databases such as Neo4j or ArangoDB) and Graph RAG architectures to enable multi-hop reasoning, explainability, and traceable, grounded responses for high-value business domains.

Agentic AI & Multi-Agent Orchestration: Proven experience delivering agentic systems using Google Agent Development Kit (ADK) and comparable frameworks (LangGraph, Microsoft Agent Framework, CrewAI, OpenAI Agents SDK), applying orchestration patterns such as supervisor/worker, hierarchical, and peer-to-peer.

Agent Harness & Interoperability: Strong grasp of harness engineering (governance, constraints, feedback loops, execution controls, agent isolation/sandboxing) and agent interoperability protocols — the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for tool/data access and the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol for inter-agent collaboration.

Machine Learning Frameworks & Cloud Computing: Working knowledge of ML frameworks and extensive hands-on experience with AWS (or equivalent) services and infrastructure for AI/GenAI.

Natural Language Processing (NLP) & AI Deployment: Advanced NLP skills (NER, dependency parsing, text classification, topic modeling). Expertise in containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines for LLMOps.

Data Engineering & API Development: Strong proficiency in data preprocessing, document ingestion, and handling large-scale datasets. Experience with real-time and streaming AI applications and designing RESTful APIs for model and agent integration.

Generative AI Tools & Platforms: Experienced with LangGraph, Autogen, CrewAI, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Hugging Face, and Google ADK. Familiarity with major GenAI APIs (OpenAI, Gemini, Claude) and version control systems like Git.

Agent Observability & Evaluation: Experience with tracing and evaluation tooling (e.g., OpenTelemetry-based observability) for production GenAI and agent systems.

AI Compliance & Guardrails: Knowledge of AI compliance frameworks and best practices. Experience implementing guardrails to ensure ethical AI usage and mitigate risks (e.g., Microsoft's AI Guidance Framework).

Required Leadership & Soft Skills

Delivery Leadership: Proven ability to lead and deliver complex, large-scale technical projects from concept to production.

Program Management: Expertise in Agile/Scrum methodologies, project planning, resource allocation, and risk management.

Strategic Execution: Capacity to translate high-level AI strategy into a concrete, actionable delivery plan and execute it effectively.

Stakeholder Management: Exceptional ability to manage expectations, communicate complex technical topics clearly, and build strong relationships with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Pragmatic Innovation: A passion for applying cutting-edge GenAI and agentic technologies to solve real-world business problems in a practical and efficient manner.

Problem Solving: Proactive and analytical mindset to overcome technical and logistical challenges in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, Data Science, AI, or a related field

6+ years of experience in AI/ML, with at least 3 years in Generative AI (including agentic AI).

Extensive hands-on experience with AWS services and infrastructure related to AI/GenAI.

A strong portfolio of projects showcasing the successful delivery of AI solutions into a production business environment.

What We Offer

At Citi, you will work at the forefront of enterprise AI within a global financial institution that is investing significantly in generative AI as a strategic priority. This is a senior leadership role with direct ownership of high-impact delivery, working alongside talented engineers and cross-functional teams across Tampa, FL and Irving, TX.

Hybrid working model with 3 days in the office and 2 days working remotely, giving you flexibility alongside meaningful team collaboration.

Strategic ownership and accountability for a high-visibility AI delivery program that shapes how Citi operates on an enterprise scale.

Access to Citi's global network and the opportunity to work with world-clas