Applied Aiml Lead - Agentic AI & Python

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · GLASGOW, LANARKSHIRE, United Kingdom · Asset & Wealth Management

Lead the end-to-end delivery of AI/ML use cases, focusing on agentic AI and LLM-powered products for financial services. This role involves translating business problems into production-grade services, establishing quality standards, and implementing Responsible AI controls.

What you'd actually do

  1. Owns end-to-end delivery of priority IPB AI/ML use cases, from problem framing and business case through to deployed, monitored production services with measurable advisor and client impact
  2. Leads the engineering build of agentic AI and LLM-powered products serving IPB advisors and clients across international markets
  3. Sets the engineering quality bar for the team's AI products through code reviews, technical design, and pairing with peers and junior engineers
  4. Establishes and operates Responsible AI controls in production (guardrails, evaluation frameworks, observability, and model risk controls) to firm-wide standards
  5. Acts as a primary technical partner to IPB business stakeholders, surfacing new AI/ML opportunities and shaping them into funded workstreams

Skills

Required

  • Formal training or certification on AI/ML engineering concepts and applied experience
  • Advanced proficiency in Python and modern software engineering practices (testing, design patterns, code review, version control)
  • Fluent with AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) as a core part of day-to-day software development, with the judgement to know when to lean on them and when not to
  • Hands-on experience building, evaluating, and deploying machine learning models into production
  • Practical experience with Large Language Models, including prompt engineering, RAG, fine-tuning, and agentic frameworks
  • Practical experience with CI/CD, containerisation, and cloud-native deployment patterns
  • Demonstrated experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability for ML or data-intensive systems
  • Strong communication skills with confidence engaging senior business stakeholders and translating technical concepts for non-technical audiences
  • Experience applying new methods to determine solutions for complex technology problems across multiple technical disciplines
  • Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or a related quantitative field (or equivalent applied experience)

Nice to have

  • Industry-recognised cloud / GenAI certification (e.g., AWS Certified Generative AI Developer - Professional, or similar)
  • Experience within financial services technology, particularly wealth, private banking, or asset management
  • Experience with Databricks, Kubernetes, or comparable ML / cloud platforms
  • Experience designing or contributing to AI governance, model validation, or guardrail frameworks
  • Familiarity with JPM-internal AI/ML infrastructure and governance for internal candidates

What the JD emphasized

  • agentic AI
  • LLM-powered products
  • production ML
  • Responsible AI controls
  • guardrails
  • evaluation frameworks
  • observability
  • model risk controls
  • firm-wide AI/ML governance
  • regulatory
  • data-privacy considerations

Other signals

  • agentic AI
  • LLM-powered products
  • production ML
  • Responsible AI controls