Senior Group Manager – Head of FX Partnerships Engineering

Senior Group Manager – Head of FX Partnerships Engineering

Overview

This is a senior engineering leadership role with end‑to‑end responsibility for application development and core engineering across FX Partnerships Technology.

Our FX Technology platform underpins the world’s largest Markets FX business, operating continuously 24/7 across more than 87+ countries globally.  FX Partnerships technology provides FX services to Citi’s leading Payments and Custody businesses.

The stability, scalability, and evolution of this platform are critical to the firm’s clients, markets, and reputation.

We are seeking a passionate, hands‑on technologist—someone who believes deeply in using technology to enable, protect, and grow the FX business. While deep engineering experience is essential, we value attitude, aptitude, and leadership mindset over any single technology or toolset.

This role will lead application development teams, setting technical direction, raising engineering standards, and building strong, resilient engineering teams. The role will be shaped around the right individual, recognizing that exceptional senior engineers bring different strengths.

Key Responsibilities

Engineering Leadership & Ownership

• Provide senior‑level engineering leadership across the FX Partnerships Technology platform, spanning application development and core engineering capabilities.
• Own the technical health, resilience, and evolution of a mission‑critical, globally distributed, 24/7 platform.
• Set and continuously raise engineering standards across architecture, development, testing, deployment, and operational support.
• Drive the design and development of scalable, resilient system architectures in close partnership with business stakeholders.

Application Development & Core Engineering

• Lead multiple application development teams responsible for delivering core FX Partnerships platforms.

• Own and evolve core engineering components and shared capabilities that underpin the platform.
• Balance delivery speed with platform stability, resilience, and regulatory compliance.
• Ensure systems are designed for operability, performance, and availability at global scale.

People & Culture

• Lead, mentor, and develop senior engineering leaders and managers across regions globally.
• Build teams that value curiosity, accountability, craftsmanship, and continuous learning.

• Attract and develop engineers with strong fundamentals, great attitudes, and a passion for solving complex problems.
• Create an environment where engineers are empowered to challenge, improve, and innovate.

Strategy, Delivery & Stakeholder Partnership

• Partner closely with Markets business leaders to align technology priorities with FX & Services business strategy.

• Contribute to the long‑term technology vision for FX, including modernisation, simplification, and scalability initiatives.
• Own delivery execution across a complex portfolio—planning, prioritisation, budgeting, and progress transparency.
• Prepare and present regular updates to senior technology and business leadership.

Risk, Control & Production Excellence

• Ensure change is delivered with strong engineering discipline, governance, and controls appropriate to a global regulated business.

• Maintain robust production management practices, including incident management, root‑cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
• Own disaster recovery and resilience strategies, overseeing testing and readiness for all critical applications.
• Proactively identify, manage, and escalate technology and operational risk.

Leadership & Communication

• Act as a visible and credible senior engineering leader within FX Technology.

• Lead local and global forums, sharing platform vision, progress, and priorities.
• Role‑model ethical behaviour, accountability, and sound judgement in all decision‑making.

What We’re Looking For

• A senior engineer and technology leader, comfortable owning complex, business‑critical platforms.
• Deep experience leading application development and/or core engineering teams at scale.
• Strong engineering fundamentals and architectural judgement, regardless of specific technology background.
• A passion for using technology to solve real business problems in fast‑moving markets.
• A leadership philosophy that values people, potential, and culture as much as delivery.
• Experience working in or with global, distributed engineering teams, including India.
• Ability to balance innovation with resilience, risk management, and regulatory discipline.
• Extensive experience in senior engineering or technology leadership roles within financial services, markets, or similarly complex regulated environments preferred (Ideally FX)

• Strong understanding of enterprise platforms operating at global scale

What we’ll provide you

By joining Citi London, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), but also receive a competitive base salary (which is annually reviewed), and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits such as:

• 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• A discretional annual performance related bonus
• Private Medical Care & Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Pension Plan
• Paid Parental Leave
• Special discounts for employees, family, and friends
• Access to an array of learning and development resources

Visit our Global Benefits page to learn more.

Alongside these benefits Citi is committed to ensuring our workplace is where everyone feels comfortable coming to work as their whole self, every day. We want the best talent around the world to be energized to join us, motivated to stay and empowered to thrive.

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