AI Lead Engineer, Vice President

Description

The company is a global bank with about 200 million customer accounts, operating in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Its businesses include consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services and wealth management.

This Vice President level AI Lead Engineer role sits in Enterprise Operations & Technology, in the Applications Development job family of the Technology group.

You will build AI-powered applications and agentic solutions that improve internal processes and how the company serves clients. The work is mostly hands-on and combines software engineering, data engineering and AI/ML to produce scalable enterprise systems in a regulated financial services setting.

You will work with architects, product owners, data scientists and engineers on LLMs, agentic AI workflows, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and intelligent automation.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of AI engineers in the AI Centre of Excellence (COE) and manage several AI use cases in the portfolio.
• Design and build agents with perception, reasoning, planning and action execution modules.
• Develop production-grade applications, APIs, microservices and reusable AI components in Python and/or Java.
• Integrate LLMs, reinforcement learning and predictive models to improve agent capabilities and decisions.
• Design data pipelines for AI and machine learning workloads, ensuring data quality, lineage, governance and security.
• Use and help extend agentic AI frameworks and development tools.
• Track progress in AI, especially agent-based and autonomous systems, and propose new solutions.
• Work with AI researchers, data scientists, product managers and software engineers to bring agentic solutions into wider products and services.
• Write thorough technical documentation covering agent designs, implementations and operating procedures.
• Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in artificial intelligence, robotics or a related quantitative field. A master's degree is a plus.
• 6+ years of professional software development experience.
• 2+ years working with AI/ML, generative AI or intelligent automation.
• Strong Python and SQL skills. Java is a plus.
• Hands-on experience building generative AI and LLM-based applications.
• Knowledge of prompt engineering, RAG, embeddings, vector databases and agentic frameworks.
• Familiarity with LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen or similar frameworks.
• Experience with OpenAI, Azure, Anthropic, Gemini, Bedrock or equivalent platforms.
• Understanding of machine learning fundamentals and model evaluation techniques.
• Experience designing and supporting data pipelines and data integration workflows.
• Experience with AWS, Azure or GCP cloud platforms and with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a creative approach to complex challenges.
• Strong written and verbal communication, including explaining complex technical concepts to varied audiences.
• Ability to collaborate within and across teams and organizations.
• Financial services experience preferred.
• Finance domain knowledge preferable.

Conditions

Full-time position.

Based in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States.

Full-time salary range for this location: $142,320.00 - $213,480.00.

Posting closes Nov 09, 2026.

Automated tools, including AI, help match your skills to roles, but people review and make every hiring decision, and no decision is made autonomously.

The company publishes an EEO policy statement and a Know Your Rights poster.

Benefits

• Eligible employees may receive discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards in addition to salary.
• Medical, dental and vision coverage.
• 401(k) plan.
• Life, accident and disability insurance.
• Wellness programs.
• Vacation, sick leave and paid holidays.
• Offerings vary by jurisdiction, job level and date of hire.