The Director of Developer Platform will lead the development and scaling of an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) with a focus on AI-driven test environment management. This role is crucial for establishing enterprise strategy and governance for non-production environments in a regulated financial services context. The position emphasizes a platform-as-a-product mindset, enhancing developer experience and automating test environment lifecycles. The successful candidate will drive transformation through modern engineering practices while ensuring compliance and operational resilience.

• 15+ years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, infrastructure, or technology operations
• 5+ years leading enterprise-scale engineering teams
• Proven expertise in managing development and test environments at scale
• Strong experience with cloud platforms, automation, and CI/CD ecosystems
• Experience operating in regulated environments, preferably in financial services
• Experience building Internal Developer Platforms (IDP) or platform engineering models is preferred
• Exposure to AI/ML or Agentic AI implementations in operations is preferred
• Knowledge of test data management and synthetic data generation is preferred
• Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field is preferred

• Architect and evolve the Internal Developer Platform (IDP) with self-service, secure-by-default, and observable capabilities.
• Build Test Environment as a Service (TEaaS) for on-demand, production-like environments.
• Establish platform SLAs, adoption metrics, and continuous feedback mechanisms.
• Design and implement Agentic AI solutions to automate provisioning, scaling, optimization, and retirement of test environments.
• Enable intelligent scheduling, reuse, and cost-aware scaling based on demand.
• Define enterprise-wide strategy for lower environment management across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid ecosystems.
• Establish standards for provisioning, configuration, refresh cycles, and decommissioning.
• Lead global engineering teams managing environment provisioning, stability, and support.
• Implement observability, incident management, and reliability practices.
• Partner with Engineering, QA, and Release teams to enable CI/CD pipelines and automated provisioning.

• Citi offers a comprehensive benefits package including competitive pay, stock programs, healthcare coverage, retirement plans, paid time off, parental leave, and programs supporting employee wellbeing and professional development.