VP, Agentic AI Engineering for Markets Operations

Next Frontier Capital; Greater London; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

J.P. Morgan in London seeks an Applied AI Engineering Lead - Vice President to design and deliver agentic AI solutions for Markets Operations, improving workflows and controls.

You will collaborate with engineers, researchers, data scientists, and business leaders to build production-ready AI services with a focus on safety, reliability, and enterprise readiness. This role offers opportunities to scale AI capabilities across strategic platforms, mentor engineers, and advance responsible AI

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong software engineering experience with Python and production-grade applications.
• Experience designing and building AI, machine learning, or agentic applications in enterprise workflows.
• Strong understanding of LLM patterns including prompt engineering, retrieval, and guardrails.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and implementation of agentic AI applications that support Markets Operations workflows, controls, exception management, and productivity use cases.
• Define and drive AI engineering architecture patterns for scalable, secure, reusable, and production-ready AI solutions.
• Design and implement agent harnesses, orchestration layers, tool-use frameworks, and guardrails for enterprise AI applications.
• Develop context management strategies including retrieval, memory, prompt and context construction, grounding, and data access controls.
• Build and enhance robust AI services and infrastructure using APIs, CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code, observability, and automated testing.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to a culture of technical excellence and responsible AI adoption.

Skills

Python

LLM architectures

RESTful APIs

CI/CD

Security & governance

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/AI

Tools

FastAPI

Terraform

Git

Job description

J.P. Morgan in London seeks an Applied AI Engineering Lead - Vice President to design and deliver agentic AI solutions for Markets Operations, improving workflows and controls.

You will collaborate with engineers, researchers, data scientists, and business leaders to build production-ready AI services with a focus on safety, reliability, and enterprise readiness. This role offers opportunities to scale AI capabilities across strategic platforms, mentor engineers, and advance responsible AI