Principal Solution Architect - AI

Where Ambition Meets Innovation

Build a career that matches all your initiative with an impressive dose of innovation. From cutting-edge resources and a collaborative environment to the freedom to make an impact and more, you’ll find the ingredients you need at LPL Financial to shape your success while helping clients pursue their financial goals.

Job Overview:

The AI Solution Architect is a senior technical leader responsible for designing, architecting, and operationalizing Agentic AI and Generative AI solutions across the enterprise. This role is central to shaping and implementing an AI‑first Product Delivery Lifecycle (PDLC)—ensuring that LPL’s product development processes, engineering practices, and operating models are optimized for AI‑native platforms, agentic systems, and rapid-value iteration.

Responsibilities:

• AI Architecture & Solution Design

• Architect enterprise-scale Agentic and Generative AI systems, including orchestration frameworks, multi-agent workflows, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and autonomous task execution patterns.

• Establish reference architectures for AI-first PDLC covering design, development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and risk controls.

• Partner with product and engineering teams to embed AI capabilities into advisor- and client-facing systems, internal tooling, and operational workflows.

• Lead the architectural design of model lifecycle pipelines, including training, fine-tuning, evaluation, and model governance.

• PDLC Transformation

• Define the architecture, tools, and methods required for an AI-native delivery lifecycle—integrating prompting, agent design, model testing, AI risk/controls, and continuous learning loops.

• Develop standards to upskill teams into AI “builders” across product, engineering, design, and risk disciplines.

• Influence enterprise-wide adoption of AI-driven development patterns, including automated evaluation harnesses, safety guardrails, and data quality validation.

• Enterprise Integration & Data Strategy

• Design integrations between AI systems, core platforms (ClientWorks, Account Lifecycle), and enterprise data ecosystems.

• Partner with Data Engineering to define data ingestion, vectorization, feature storage, and real-time inference pipelines.

• Ensure architectural alignment with cloud strategy, data governance, and enterprise controls.

• Security, Compliance & Responsible AI

• Ensure all AI solutions meet LPL’s regulatory and compliance obligations.

• Collaborate with InfoSec to embed identity, authorization, auditing, and model‑level security patterns.

• Implement Responsible AI guidelines covering transparency, fairness, evaluation, and model performance monitoring.

• Cross-Functional Leadership

• Partner with senior leaders across Product, Enterprise Architecture, DevSecOps, Operations, and Infrastructure to drive alignment and prioritization.

• Lead architectural reviews, whiteboarding sessions, and candidate architecture evaluations.

• Mentor engineering teams and contribute to LPL’s AI architecture community of practice.

• Support hiring and talent strategy for emerging AI roles.

What are we looking for? We want strong collaborators who can deliver a world-class client experience. We are looking for people who thrive in a fast-paced environment, are client-focused, team oriented, and are able to execute in a way that encourages creativity and continuous improvement

Requirements:

• 2+ years experience architecting Generative AI, Agentic AI, and ML systems at enterprise scale.

• 6+ years experience with cloud-native architecture background (AWS preferred), including microservices, Kubernetes, and event-driven patterns.

• 5+ years experience with LLMs, vector databases, embeddings, evaluators, guardrails, fine-tuning, and orchestration.

• 8+ years experience in Python; proficiency in C#, Java, or TypeScript is a plus.

• 6+ years expertise with ML Ops including CI/CD for ML, model versioning, monitoring, automated evaluation.

Preferences:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, AI/ML, or equivalent experience.

• AWS Solutions Architect – Professional, AWS Machine Learning Specialty, Terraform Associate, or similar credentials.

• Familiarity with financial services regulatory requirements

Core Competencies:

• Strategic Architecture & Systems Thinking

• AI Fluency & Model Lifecycle Expertise

• Experimentation & Data-Driven Decision-Making

• Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Innovation & Continuous Learning

Success Measures:

• Establishment and adoption of the AI-first PDLC.

• Delivery of agentic and generative AI solutions with measurable business value.

• Increased organizational AI fluency and AI builder capability.

• Architectural alignment across platforms, AI services, data, and operations.

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Pay Range:

$155,929-$259,882/year
 Actual base salary varies based on factors, including but not limited to, relevant skill, prior experience, education, base salary of internal peers, demonstrated performance, and geographic location. Additionally, LPL Total Rewards package is highly competitive, designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play – such as 401K matching, health benefits, employee stock options, paid time off, volunteer time off, and more. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that LPL has to offer!
 

Company Overview:

LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: LPLA) is among the fastest growing wealth management firms in the U.S. As a leader in the financial advisor-mediated marketplace(6) , LPL supports over 32,000 financial advisors and the wealth management practices of approximately 1,100 financial institutions, servicing and custodying approximately $2.3 trillion in brokerage and advisory assets on behalf of approximately 8 million Americans. The firm provides a wide range of advisor affiliation models, investment solutions, fintech tools and practice management services, ensuring that advisors and institutions have the flexibility to choose the business model, services, and technology resources they need to run thriving businesses. For further information about LPL, please visit www.lpl.com.

At LPL, independence means that advisors and institution leaders have the freedom they deserve to choose the business model, services, and technology resources that allow them to run a thriving business. They have the flexibility to do business their way. And they have the freedom to manage their client relationships, because they know their clients best. Simply put, we take care of our advisors and institutions, so they can take care of their clients.

For further information about LPL, please visit www.lpl.com.

Join LPL Financial: Where Your Potential Meets Opportunity

At LPL Financial, we believe that everyone deserves objective financial guidance. As the nation’s leading independent broker-dealer, we offer an integrated platform of cutting-edge technology, brokerage, and investment advisor services.

Why LPL?

• Innovative Environment: We foster creativity and growth, providing a supportive and responsive leadership team. Learn more about our leadership team here!

• Limitless Career Potential: Your career at LPL has no limits, only amazing potential. Learn more about our careers here!

• Unified Mission: We are one team on one mission—taking care of our advisors so they can take care of their clients. Learn more about our mission and values here!

• Impactful Work: Our size is just right for you to make a real impact. Learn more here!

• Commitment to Equality: We support workplace equality and embrace diverse perspectives and backgrounds. Learn more here!

• Community Focus: We care for our communities and encourage our employees to do the same. Learn more here!

• Benefits and Total Rewards: Our Total Rewards package goes beyond just compensation and insurance. It includes a mix of traditional and unique benefits, perks, and resources designed to enhance your life both at work and at home. Learn more here!

Join the LPL team and help us make a difference by turning life’s aspirations into financial realities. Please log in or create an account to apply to this position. Principals only. EOE.

Information on Interviews:

LPL will only communicate with a job applicant directly from an @lplfinancial.com email address and will never conduct an interview online or in a chatroom forum.  During an interview, LPL will not request any form of payment from the applicant, or information regarding an applicant’s bank or credit card.  Should you have any questions regarding the application process, please contact LPL’s Human Resources Solutions Center at (855) 575-6947.

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