Developer Experience & Governance Analyst - (AVP)

Overview

Developer Experience & Governance Analyst - (AVP) – Citi Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

The Department: Developer Enablement is a key part of the CTO organisation. Our mission is to make it fast, safe, and satisfying for 40,000 engineers across the bank to write code and ship it to production. We enable modern ways of working by codifying controls, upgrading the developer toolchain, reducing toil, and embedding compliance into the development lifecycle – without slowing anyone down. Governance and productivity should go hand-in-hand.

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategy and execution for global SDLC policy and standards across 40,000+ developers
• Drive a governance approach rooted in automation, developer empathy, and continuous delivery principles
• Codify controls into the development toolchain – policies as code, automated quality gates, and self-service approval workflows
• Act as the point person for technology governance engagements with risk, audit, and regulators globally
• Collaborate with engineering squads, platform teams, and DevSecOps to make security and compliance a built-in experience
• Champion the developer voice in forums, steering groups and transformation initiatives – ensure policies and tooling help, not hinder
• Define and track KPIs across compliance, risk posture, and developer productivity, driving improvements based on data
• Stay ahead of regulatory expectations, engineering trends, and emerging technologies that affect the SDLC
• Represent the firm in internal and external forums, including regulatory meetings, control design reviews, and engineering councils

Qualifications & Experience

• Hands-on experience with modern SDLC practices, CI/CD tooling, secure software delivery, and inner-loop productivity
• Understanding of development risk, audit, and regulatory expectations – ideally with prior engagement in audits, regulator meetings, or enterprise compliance programmes
• Experience working across engineering, compliance, risk, and legal functions
• Understanding of backend/frontend engineering, infrastructure, cloud, and security tooling
• Degree in Computer Science or related field preferred

What We’ll Provide You

By joining Citi Belfast, you will be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid model (up to 2 days home per week), a competitive base salary (annually reviewed), and a range of benefits:

• 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• Discretionary 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 learning and development resources

Visit Citi Global Benefits page to learn more.

Other Information

We are committed to an inclusive workplace where everyone can come to work as their whole self. Citi is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. Accessibility support is available as needed.

Job Details

• Job Family Group: Technology
• Job Family: Systems & Engineering
• Time Type: Full time
• Job function: Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries: Banking, Financial Services, and Investment Banking

Additional roles and locations listed in the original posting are omitted here for clarity.

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Salary: GBP 36000 - 60000 per year