AI Architecture Lead

Job description

To provide quantitative and analytical expertise to support trading strategies, risk management, and decision-making within the investment banking domain, applying quantitative analysis, mathematical modelling, and technology to optimise trading and investment opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Experience deploying and operating machine learning models within enterprise environments.
• Experience with LLM-powered applications, agent frameworks and retrieval systems.
• Familiarity with prompt engineering, evaluation frameworks and AI safety controls.
• Experience with reinforcement learning, fine-tuning or model customisation techniques.
• Experience with Kubernetes and containerised deployment models.
• Experience managing or designing GPU-enabled environments.
• Experience with distributed training and inference workloads.
• Understanding of vector databases, model serving frameworks and AI infrastructure tooling.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS or GCP.
• Prior experience in electronic trading, quantitative development or financial markets.
• Experience integrating AI capabilities into business workflows and production systems.
• Familiarity with modern C++ and Python-based quantitative environments.
• Design and develop shared AI platform capabilities used across Global Markets.
• Build scalable infrastructure for machine learning and generative AI workloads.
• Define architectures for model deployment, inference, orchestration and monitoring.

Requirements

• Proven track record delivering large-scale engineering or AI platform initiatives.
• Expert Python development skills.
• Strong software engineering and architecture experience.
• Experience building production machine learning or generative AI systems.
• Excellent understanding of distributed systems, APIs and modern software architectures.
• Experience working with cloud-native environments and container platforms.
• Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, observability and production support.