Citigroup, Inc

Solution Engineer - Vice President

Citigroup, Inc$142K — $213K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6-10 years in an Engineering role, preferably in Financial Services
  • Proven innovation and results orientation
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to develop and communicate architectural decisions
  • Familiarity with design metrics and analytics tools
  • Demonstrated analytic and diagnostic problem-solving skills
  • Experience in a complex, global business environment

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a technology subject matter expert for stakeholders
  • Lead functional requirements analysis and solutions design
  • Evaluate options and present analyses to senior stakeholders
  • Design enterprise-wide solutions using business, technical, and data architecture
  • Develop structured prompt frameworks tailored to achieve business outcomes
  • Design multi-step reasoning pipelines for problem solving
  • Advise or mentor junior team members on engineering practices

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • Life, accident, and disability insurance
  • Wellness programs
  • Paid time off including vacation and sick leave
  • Paid holidays
Full Job Description
Overview of the Role

The Solution Engineer role is a senior level position responsible for leading a variety of engineering activities including the design, prompting, and leveraging technology acumen for option matrix decision-making in coordination with Ops, Risk, and Technology teams. The overall objective of this role is to lead efforts to ensure quality standards are being met within existing and planned framework and to enable AI Accelerated Product Development Lifecycle strategy.

Responsibilities:
  • Serve as a technology subject matter expert for internal and external stakeholders and provide direction for all firm mandated controls and compliance initiatives, all projects within the group and in creating a technology domain roadmap
  • Lead analysis of functional requirements and solutions design
  • Evaluate options and present comparative analysis with recommendations to senior stakeholders
  • Apply in-depth domain knowledge of financial services to multi-dimensional business problems
  • Design enterprise-wide solutions leveraging solutions, business, technical, and data architecture
  • Architect structured prompt frameworks tailored toward business related outcomes. Most be proficient in ~
    • Chain-of-thought (CoT) and tree-of-thought (ToT) prompting
    • Few-shot and zero-shot prompting strategies
    • Role-based and persona-driven prompt design
    • Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline architecture
  • Proficiency for optimized prompts to adhere to accuracy, latency, and compliance requirements
  • Design multi-step reasoning pipelines for domain-specific problem solving
  • Ensure that all integration of functions meet business goals
  • Recommend product customization for system integration
  • Identify problem causality, business impact and root causes
  • Impact the engineering function by influencing decisions through advice, counsel or facilitating services
  • Drives efficiency gains, enhanced controls, and extendible scalability
  • Engages globally across Lines of Business and functions
  • Advise or mentor junior team members
  • Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating 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 regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.


Recommended Qualifications:
  • 6-10 years of relevant experience in an Engineering role
  • Experience working in Financial Services or a large complex and/or global environment
  • Must be results-oriented, innovative, and motivated
  • Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication
  • Communicates architectural decisions through formal artifacts
  • Comprehensive knowledge of design metrics, analytics tools, benchmarking activities and related reporting to identify best practices
  • Demonstrated analytic/diagnostic skills
  • Ability to work in a matrix environment and partner with virtual teams
  • Ability to work independently, prioritize, and take ownership of various parts of a project or initiative
  • Ability to work under pressure and manage to tight deadlines or unexpected changes in expectations or requirements
  • Proven track record of operational process change and improvement


Education:
  • Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience


Job Family Group:
Technology

Job Family:
Systems & Engineering

Time Type:
Full time

Primary Location:
New York New York United States

Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:
$142,320.00 - $213,480.00

In addition to salary, Citi's offerings may also include, for eligible employees, discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards. Citi offers competitive employee benefits, including: medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs. Citi also offers paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays. For additional information regarding Citi employee benefits, please visit citibenefits.com. Available offerings may vary by jurisdiction, job level, and date of hire.

Most Relevant Skills
Please see the requirements listed above.

Other Relevant Skills
For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

Anticipated Posting Close Date:
May 20, 2026

About Citigroup, Inc

Citigroup is a financial services holding company that provides financial products and services. The company operates through two segments, Global Consumer Banking (GCB) and Institutional Clients Group (ICG). The GCB segment offers traditional banking services to retail customers through retail banking, commercial banking, Citi-branded cards, and Citi retail services. The ICG segment offers various banking, and financial products and services to corporate, institutional, public sector, and high-net-worth clients. This segment provides wholesale banking products and services, including fixed-income and equity sales and trading, foreign exchange, prime brokerage, derivative services, equity and fixed-income research, corporate lending, investment banking, and advisory services, private banking, cash management, trade finance, and securities services. Citi is committed to sustainability and social responsibility, and the company invests in initiatives that promote economic progress.

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