Senior Forward Deployed AI Engineer

Embark on a transformative journey as a Senior Forward Deployed AI Engineer. At Barclays, our vision is clear – to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. This is not a traditional engineering role, it is an opportunity to reinvent Investment Banking Research through AI. You will work on high impact AI engagements with senior stakeholders, building solutions that have the potential to become defining achievements of your career.

To be successful as a Senior Forward Deployed AI Engineer, you should have:

• Considerable Python engineering skills, including building and deploying production-grade APIs using FastAPI or Flask
• Experience designing and building agentic AI applications using frameworks such as LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGen, or similar
• Deep experience developing RAG solutions, including vector databases, semantic search, reranking, and retrieval optimization
• Ample understanding of MCPs, FastMCP, tool calling, and agent orchestration patterns
• Experience deploying scalable cloud-native applications on AWS using services such as ECS/EKS, Lambda, Bedrock, and Docker

Other Highly Valued Skills Include

• Experience operating AI systems in production, including AgentOps, CI/CD, monitoring, evaluation, and optimisation
• Considerable stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to translate highly detailed business tasks into technical solutions.
• Understanding of, or considerable interest in, Investment Banking Research workflows and financial data platforms
• Experience with M365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, AWS AgentCore, or related AI platforms
• A pragmatic builder mindset with a bias for rapid iteration, be trusted with, and delivering measurable business impact

This role is located in our Whippany, NJ office.

Minimum Salary: $150,000

Maximum Salary: $200,000

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above include only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances.

This position is eligible for an incentive award.

Purpose of the role To design, develop, implement, and support mathematical, statistical, and machine learning models and analytics used in business decision-making

Accountabilities

• Design analytics and modelling solutions to complex business problems using domain expertise.
• Collaboration with technology to specify any dependencies required for analytical solutions, such as data, development environments and tools.
• Development of high performing, comprehensively documented analytics and modelling solutions, demonstrating their efficacy to business users and independent validation teams.
• Implementation of analytics and models in accurate, stable, well-tested software and work with technology to operationalise them.
• Provision of ongoing support for the continued effectiveness of analytics and modelling solutions to users.
• Demonstrate conformance to all Barclays Enterprise Risk Management Policies, particularly Model Risk Policy.
• Ensure all development activities are undertaken within the defined control environment.

Vice President Expectations

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures..
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D…