Senior Engineering Manager
At a glance
Senior Engineering Leadership role at Citi. Mississauga Ontario Canada · full-time · CA$145,100–CA$217,700 base.
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What you'll do
- Lead engineering strategy and delivery for wholesale lending platforms, including origination, servicing, syndication and collateral workflows
- Keep platform work aligned with regulatory obligations, security controls, audit preparation and architecture standards
- Coordinate roadmaps with operations, product, quantitative, credit risk and architecture partners
- Introduce GenAI coding aids and automated delivery checks, while strengthening distributed systems, APIs and event-driven services
- Hire and mentor engineers, technical leads and architects in Mississauga, working across global teams
What you bring
- At least ten years of relevant experience
- Strong wholesale lending expertise; familiarity with loan platforms is a plus
- Deep grounding in modern full-stack development, microservices and distributed event streaming
- Practical experience with containers, CI/CD, test automation and infrastructure-as-code
- A bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience; a master’s degree is preferred
Who this fits
This senior engineering leadership role suits someone who can lead technical teams while staying close to platform architecture and delivery. The position is based at the Mississauga Technology Centre and is described as hybrid in Canada.
From the employer
We are seeking an exceptional Senior Engineering Manager to head the development and modernization of our Wholesale Lending Operations (WLO) Technology platforms and initiatives, based out of our Mississauga Technology Centre.
This is a high-impact leadership role responsible for driving the technology strategy, platform engineering, and execution behind Citi’s global wholesale lending and credit lifecycle ecosystem. You will lead teams delivering mission-critical platforms that power loan origination, servicing, syndication, collateral management, and workflow automation for the world’s largest corporate, institutional, and commercial clients.
Responsibilities:
- Regulatory, Risk & Compliance Excellence: Ensure platforms adhere to rigorous regulatory commitments, audit readiness, information security mandates, and architectural governance standards.
- Cross-Functional Partnership: Collaborate closely with Operations Leaders, Product Managers, Quantitative Analysts, Credit Risk Officers, and Global Architecture teams to align technology roadmaps with core business priorities.
- Champion AI-Driven Engineering: Pioneer and institutionalize the adoption of GenAI developer tools, coding copilots, and automated CI/CD gating to accelerate development throughput and code quality.
- Modern Architecture & Engineering Standards: Enforce best-in-class distributed systems engineering, API-first integrations, resilient event-driven pipelines (e.g., Kafka), and modern UI/micro-frontend architectures.
- Quality & Continuous Delivery: Cultivate a culture of test automation, shift-left security, chaos engineering, and zero-downtime release practices.
- Build & Mentor High-Performing Teams: Recruit, develop, and inspire top-tier software engineers, technical leads, and architects at the Mississauga site while orchestrating seamlessly with distributed global pods.
- Inclusive & Innovative Culture: Foster an engineering culture defined by technical curiosity, continuous learning, psychological safety, and clear career progression pathways.
Recommended Qualifications:
- 10+ years of relevant experience
- Domain Expertise: Strong background in Wholesale Lending. Familiarity with loan platforms is highly desirable.
- Full-Stack / Distributed Systems Mastery: Deep technical foundation in modern programming languages and frameworks (e.g., Java/Spring Boot, Python, React/Angular), microservices architecture, and event streaming (Kafka/MQ).
- Cloud & DevOps: Hands-on experience with containerization (Docker, OpenShift/Kubernetes), CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks, and modern infrastructure-as-code.
- GenAI & Tooling Enthusiasm: Active champion of modern developer tooling, GenAI productivity assistants, automated code analysis, and DevOps telemetry
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
- Master’s degree preferred
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Automated Processing and AI
We use automated processing, including artificial intelligence, for our legitimate business interests (or our reasonable and appropriate business purposes) to identify and align the candidate's skills and abilities with a specific job opening. Additionally, if you so choose, or consent, we can match your skills and abilities to other suitable roles at Citi.
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This job opening is for an existing job vacancy.
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