Principal AI Architect

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.

The Principal Architect, Artificial Intelligence defines and drives architecture for our enterprise AI portfolio, including advisor-facing AI workspaces, a centralized AI control plane, and the agentic solutions built on top of both. This role provides architecture leadership across the end-to-end AI product development lifecycle (AI PDLC): discovery and intake, experimentation, design, build, evaluation, certification, deployment, operations, change management, and retirement.

You will establish repeatable governance and engineering patterns so that product teams can onboard to a common, governed path without reinventing controls for each initiative. The role pairs strategic architecture with hands-on depth: evaluating emerging models and frameworks, building reference implementations and proofs of concept, and guiding teams to deliver secure, resilient, observable, and cost-aware AI at scale in a regulated financial services environment.

Focus areas will be calibrated to the successful candidate’s strengths and organizational priorities.

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