IT Project Tech Lead

Citi • Tampa, FL

11d • Hybrid

About The Position

Citibank, N.A. seeks an IT Project Tech Lead for its Tampa, Florida location.
Duties: Manage communications and relationships with key business and technology stakeholders, serving as the primary point of contact for project status, risks, and deliverables across multiple IT initiatives. Oversee the full lifecycle of project requirements and artifacts through JIRA, SharePoint, PowerPoint, and Citi’s Program Tracking System (PTS), ensuring transparency, traceability, and governance. Develop and manage detailed project plans spanning cross-functional teams, coordinating internal and external resources to deliver complex technology solutions within defined scope, schedule, and budget. Collaborate with Finance, PMO, Risk & Compliance, and Engineering teams to align project execution with enterprise policies and regulatory standards. Lead Agile ceremonies as Scrum Master, facilitating sprints, retrospectives, and progress tracking to drive consistent delivery. Drive the cross-functional DevOps and CI/CD initiatives by coordinating development and infrastructure teams, optimizing build and release using Ansible, Terraform and scripting tools and deployment pipelines with Jenkins, Docker, and Git workflows, and ensuring timely, high-quality software delivery through proactive timeline and risk management, while maintaining high standards of quality, security, and compliance. A telecommuting/hybrid work schedule may be permitted within a commutable distance from the worksite, in accordance with Citi policies and protocols.

Requirements

• Requires a Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Engineering (any), Information Technology, Management Information Systems or related field and 4 years of experience as a Technical Consultant, Software Engineer or related position involving IT project management.
• Alternatively, employer will accept a Bachelor’s degree in the stated fields and 6 years of the specified progressive, post-baccalaureate experience.
• Full span of experience must include: Enterprise Resource Planning, including enabling centralized data management, project planning and scheduling, and budgeting; Software project management, including developing project management plans, budget estimation, scoping, stakeholder management, project lifecycle, risk management and negotiations; Global innovation Management and Total Quality Management, including conducting root cause analysis and adopting quality assurance and testing practices; Leading end-to-end delivery of IT projects in a financial enterprise environment; Managing cross-functional teams in executing large-scale application releases, infrastructure upgrades and production deployments; Managing sprint-based project delivery via planning, coordinating and monitoring project progress using JIRA, SharePoint, and PowerPoint; Serving as primary liaison between stakeholders, technical teams, and senior executives; Overseeing the integration of automated testing tools, including Junit, Selenium and Postman; Validating budgets, managing change requests and ensuring project governance across multiple workstreams; Acting as Scrum Master for Agile projects; and Using CI/CD automation tools, including Jenkins, Git, Bitbucket, SVN, Maven, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible and Terraform.

Responsibilities

• Manage communications and relationships with key business and technology stakeholders, serving as the primary point of contact for project status, risks, and deliverables across multiple IT initiatives.
• Oversee the full lifecycle of project requirements and artifacts through JIRA, SharePoint, PowerPoint, and Citi’s Program Tracking System (PTS), ensuring transparency, traceability, and governance.
• Develop and manage detailed project plans spanning cross-functional teams, coordinating internal and external resources to deliver complex technology solutions within defined scope, schedule, and budget.
• Collaborate with Finance, PMO, Risk & Compliance, and Engineering teams to align project execution with enterprise policies and regulatory standards.
• Lead Agile ceremonies as Scrum Master, facilitating sprints, retrospectives, and progress tracking to drive consistent delivery.
• Drive the cross-functional DevOps and CI/CD initiatives by coordinating development and infrastructure teams, optimizing build and release using Ansible, Terraform and scripting tools and deployment pipelines with Jenkins, Docker, and Git workflows, and ensuring timely, high-quality software delivery through proactive timeline and risk management, while maintaining high standards of quality, security, and compliance.

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level