AVP, AI & ML Engineering, Tech Lead

At LPL’s Global Capability Center, you'll find a collaborative culture where your voice matters, integrity guides every decision, and technology fuels progress. Your skills, talents, and ideas will redefine what's possible. LPL's success reflects its exceptional employees, who together pursue one noble purpose: empowering financial advisors to deliver personalized advice for all who need it. We’re proud to be expanding and reaching new heights in Hyderabad.

Join us as we create something extraordinary together.

What if you could build a career where ambition meets innovation?

At LPL Financial Global Capability Center, you'll find a collaborative culture where your voice matters, integrity guides every decision, and technology fuels progress. Your skills, talents, and ideas will redefine what's possible. LPL's success reflects its exceptional employees, who together pursue one noble purpose: empowering financial advisors to deliver personalized advice for all who need it. We are proud to in Hyderabad.

Join us as we create something extraordinary together.

Job Overview:

The AVP, AI/ML Engineering, Tech Lead is a senior technical leader responsible for architecting, building, and operationalizing the AI systems that will transform LPL’s advisor, client, and operational experiences.

This role guides the engineering of LLM-driven applications, agentic AI systems, autonomous workflows, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and the enterprise Knowledge Graph, all built within a scalable, governed, cloud-native environment. Operating within the AI/ML Engineering organization, this leader sets technical direction for how LPL builds production-quality AI—leveraging AWS Bedrock, generative model ecosystems, and modern ML tooling.

Responsibilities:

AI/ML Architecture & Agentic System Design: Architect and lead implementation of agentic AI systems capable of multi-step reasoning, tool use, workflow orchestration, and domain-specific autonomy. Build LLM-based agents that interact with APIs, data products, and enterprise systems to drive intelligent automation and decision support. Design orchestration layers that incorporate memory, context management, and dynamic planning for advanced agent behaviours. Develop RAG architectures that integrate embeddings, vector search, and semantic retrieval into agentic workflows

AWS Bedrock–Driven AI Platform Engineering: Lead adoption of AWS Bedrock for model selection, orchestration, governance, and enterprise scaling of LLMs and generative AI. Implement Bedrock Features such as: Guardrails, Model evaluation, Provisioned throughput, Custom model fine-tuning. Integrate Bedrock models with downstream systems, including microservices, pipelines, and agent frameworks. Partner with enterprise architecture to define standards for Bedrock usage and model lifecycle governance

Knowledge Graph & Semantic Intelligence: Own engineering and operationalization of the Enterprise Knowledge Graph and integrate it with LLM and agent frameworks as a structured reasoning layer, Implement ontology-driven enrichment, entity resolution, and graph-based retrieval for AI capabilities, Connect graph services to agents to support semantic grounding, consistency, and contextual awareness

ML Engineering & MLOps: Build and maintain automated pipelines for training, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring of traditional and generative ML models, Establish rigorous MLOps standards including CI/CD, reproducibility, drift detection, and quality gates, Develop feature stores, vector databases, and real-time inference services optimized for AI workloads.

Engineering Delivery & Cross-Team Collaboration: Partner deeply with DIME to ensure upstream data pipelines meet enterprise AI-grade requirements for freshness, quality, lineage, and metadata, Work with Lakehouse Engineering and Data Product teams to align models, features, and data availability, Collaborate with governance and security teams to enforce responsible AI practices and regulatory controls

What are we looking for?

We’re looking for strong collaborators who deliver exceptional client experiences and thrive in fast-paced, team-oriented environments. Our ideal candidates pursue greatness, act with integrity, and are driven to help our clients succeed. We value those who embrace creativity, continuous improvement, and contribute to a culture where we win together and create and share joy in our work.

Requirements:

8+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years in hands-on leadership of ML/AI initiatives

Proven leadership in designing and deploying machine learning systems in production

Hands-on expertise with LLMs, embeddings, RAG, vector search, semantic retrieval, or agentic AI development

Strong experience with AWS services, especially Bedrock, SageMaker, Lambda, Step Functions, OpenSearch, DynamoDB, ECR, and S3

Strong experience building/managing agentic solutions with solid understanding of agent orchestration, tool use, and guardrails for autonomous systems

Proficiency in Python and modern ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face). Familiarity with graph databases, ontologies, and knowledge graph technologies (Neptune, Neo4j, RDF/OWL)

Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills. Strong experience with MLOps and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes)

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science or a related field (years experience may apply to cover this requirement)

Core Competencies:

Provide architectural and engineering leadership across AI/ML Engineering

Mentor engineers on ML system design, LLM development, agentic architectures, and cloud-native AI delivery

Champion engineering excellence, innovation, and a builder mindset across the team

Shape LPL’s enterprise AI roadmap, influencing priorities and platform capabilities

Translate complex AI concepts into executive-ready narratives

Evaluate emerging agentic technologies and generative AI frameworks to guide platform evolution

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