Distinguished Architect, Artificial Intelligence

Why Should You Join the Enterprise Architecture Team at LPL Financial?

At LPL Financial, our Architecture Team sits at the very center of strategy and transformation. We partner across business, product, and technology to design the blueprints that shape the future of wealth management. By setting standards, frameworks, and patterns, we enable the enterprise to innovate with speed while ensuring resilience, scalability, and regulatory compliance.

As LPL expands its investment in Artificial Intelligence, the Architecture Team plays a pivotal role in defining how AI/ML, agentic AI, and advanced analytics are responsibly and effectively adopted. From giving advisors smarter insights, to automating compliance, to delivering more personalized investor experiences, AI is central to how we redefine wealth management.

Joining the Architecture Team today means influencing enterprise-wide decisions, building sustainable frameworks for innovation, and seeing your work directly impact millions of clients and advisors. Here, architecture is not just about technology design — it’s about shaping the future of financial advice.

Job Overview

The Distinguished Architect, Artificial Intelligence, is a senior thought leader and individual contributor who drives the vision, design, and governance of AI solutions across LPL. Reporting to the Head Of Architecture, this role will:

• Establish LPL’s enterprise AI strategy and roadmap, including adoption of agentic AI to augment advisor workflows, automate servicing, and enable proactive client engagement.
• Define and govern architecture principles for AI adoption — spanning data platforms, ML pipelines, generative AI, and multi-agent systems.
• Serve as a core member of the AI Governance Council, shaping enterprise-wide standards for responsible, ethical, and compliant AI adoption.
• Partner closely with product, engineering, and data leaders to identify and scale the highest-value AI use cases in wealth management.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior executives on AI opportunities, risks, ethics, and implementation trade-offs.

Responsibilities

• Define and Govern AI/ML/Agentic AI Architecture: Develop enterprise AI reference architectures, patterns, and guardrails — including multi-agent orchestration, reasoning frameworks, and AI safety controls.
• AI Governance Council Leadership: Contribute to the design and enforcement of LPL’s AI governance framework through active participation in the AI Governance Council, ensuring consistency with the Architecture Review Board (ARB) and Data Design Authority (DDA).
• Identify High-Value Use Cases: Partner with business and product leaders to prioritize AI opportunities such as advisor copilots, agent-based onboarding, autonomous compliance monitoring, and personalized financial insights.
• Enable Responsible AI: Drive enterprise adoption of explainability, bias monitoring, risk assessment, and regulatory compliance frameworks for both predictive models and autonomous agents.
• Partner and Influence: Collaborate across domains — including data, infrastructure, application, and security architecture — to enable secure, scalable deployment of AI and agentic systems.
• Blueprint and Standards Leadership: Ensure AI/agentic AI solutions are represented in enterprise blueprints and align with LPL’s modernization strategy.
• Thought Leadership: Evangelize LPL’s AI strategy internally and externally, representing the firm in regulatory, industry, and client-facing forums.

Requirements

• 15+ years in enterprise technology and architecture, with 7+ years in AI/ML/advanced analytics.
• Experience participating in or leading AI governance councils, model risk committees, or equivalent regulatory forums.
• Proven expertise with AI agent frameworks (LangChain, AutoGen, CrewAI, or equivalent) and multi-agent system design.
• Strong track record designing AI/ML systems in regulated industries (financial services strongly preferred).
• Strong understanding of wealth management, trading, or securities domains, with ability to link AI to advisor and investor value.
• Graduate degree in Computer Science, AI, Data Science, or related field preferred.

Technical Competencies

• Expertise in agentic AI systems, including reasoning, planning, and autonomous task execution.
• Proficiency with AI/ML ecosystems (Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face, LangChain, AutoGen, AWS Bedrock, Azure AI).
• Strong grounding in AI/ML and agent governance — model lifecycle management, explainability, auditability, and risk controls.
• Familiarity with financial services regulations impacting AI/ML, including SEC, FINRA, and data privacy laws.
• Experience with MLOps/AgentOps, continuous learning pipelines, and real-time AI decisioning frameworks.

Preferences

• Financial services experience, especially in wealth management, advisory, or trading.
• Demonstrated thought leadership in responsible AI or agentic AI (publications, regulatory engagement, industry consortiums).
• AWS/Azure cloud certifications with AI/ML specialization.

 

Pay Range:

$183,400-$305,600/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. LPL supports over 29,000 financial advisors and the wealth-management practices of 1,100 financial institution, servicing and custodying approximately $1.9 trillion in brokerage and advisory assets on behalf of approximately 7 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.

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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