VP, Applied AI/ML Engineering Lead

Next Frontier Capital; Greater London; On-site; GBP 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

J.P. Morgan is seeking an Applied AI ML Lead Engineer, Vice President, to join the Asset and Wealth Management engineering team in London.

You will be a core technical contributor delivering trusted, scalable AI-enabled technology products and enabling responsible AI practices across delivery teams. You will drive adoption of AI-assisted engineering, guide validation standards, and promote reusable patterns to improve quality and speed.

Qualifications

• Experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools for coding, code review, test acceleration, and troubleshooting.
• Ability to set team expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
• Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity, secure handling of inputs and outputs, and resiliency and security expectations.
• Experience coaching engineers on safe, compliant adoption of AI-assisted practices within delivery workflows.
• Knowledge of the financial services industry and its technology systems.
• Proficiency in Python or an equivalent programming language.
• Experience working in AWS, with understanding of Terraform, EKS, and ECS.
• Strong knowledge of system and application design.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and software development lifecycles.
• Experience with prompt engineering and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) based architecture.
• Ability to communicate with clarity and credibility across senior engineers, stakeholders, and product partners.

Responsibilities

• Drive adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes.
• Establish validation standards for AI-assisted work, including secure coding, peer review, and automated testing.
• Promote reuse of effective patterns across the team to improve consistency and reliability.
• Apply software development lifecycle tools, including approved AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to increase the value realized from automation.

Skills

Python

AWS

CI/CD

Prompt engineering

RAG architecture

Communication

Team leadership

Security & compliance

Tools

Terraform

EKS

ECS

Job description

J.P. Morgan is seeking an Applied AI ML Lead Engineer, Vice President, to join the Asset and Wealth Management engineering team in London.

You will be a core technical contributor delivering trusted, scalable AI-enabled technology products and enabling responsible AI practices across delivery teams. You will drive adoption of AI-assisted engineering, guide validation standards, and promote reusable patterns to improve quality and speed.