Head of Product and Engineering - Director

Citi·Pune·Hybrid

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Experience

15+ years

Employment

Full Time

Work mode

Hybrid

Level

Director

Location

Pune

Posted

4 days ago

What you'll do

Head of Product and Engineering
Location: Pune (Hybrid)
Line of Business: Compliance Technology / Enterprise Technology
Are you a product engineering leader who excels at driving massive platform consolidations, leading high-performing global teams, and solving complex distributed systems challenges? Do you believe in solving complex problem through technology simplification and modernisation?
At Citi, we are executing a bold, multi-year technology modernisation strategy. A critical pillar of this transformation is the unification of our global compliance enterprise workflow and case management systems. As the Head of Product and Engineering, you will be the strategic engineering leader and product visionary responsible for driving the consolidation, modernisation, and scaling of our global compliance case management platforms.
In this dual-hatted role, you will:
Lead Global Case Management & Workflow Platforms: Direct a globally distributed engineering organisation tasked with building and scaling our unified, high-throughput enterprise workflow and decisioning platforms.
Serve as the India Site Lead: Act as the senior technology executive for our regional engineering hub in India, driving talent strategy, engineering culture, and operational excellence across the site.
This is a high-visibility, executive-level role reporting directly to the Managing Director, Global Head of Product and Engineering.
Technical Strategy ,Platform Unification and Product Management
Drive Platform Consolidation: Define and execute the technical strategy to consolidate disparate legacy workflow and case management systems into a single, modern, global platform.
Architectural Modernization: Lead the transition of core platforms to a cloud-native, microservices-based, and event-driven architecture capable of processing millions of complex events daily with sub-second latency.

What you'll bring

Basic
Experience: 15+ years of professional software engineering experience, with 5+ years in an engineering leadership role (Director, Senior Engineering Manager, or equivalent) at Product-Engineering first setup
Platform Unification: Proven track record of successfully leading large-scale platform consolidations, legacy migrations, or enterprise-wide system unifications.
Distributed Systems: Deep expertise in designing and operating high-availability, low-latency, and highly secure distributed systems at massive scale.
Global Leadership: Experience managing globally distributed engineering teams of 80+ engineers, including direct management of engineering managers and principal architects.
Site Leadership: Proven experience leading a regional engineering site or hub, with a strong track record of building local talent pipelines and fostering a strong engineering culture.
Domain Knowledge: Experience in compliance, sanctions, transaction risk, anti-money laundering (AML), fraud detection, or high-scale transactional risk systems is highly desirable but not mandatory. We value core engineering leadership and platform-building capabilities above specific domain experience.
Workflow & BPMN Expertise: Familiarity with modern workflow orchestration engines (e.g., Temporal, Camunda) and complex state-machine design.
Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.