Senior Forward Deployed AI Engineer

Barclays•Jefferson, CO

1d•$150,000 - $200,000•Onsite

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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
Considerable stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to translate highly detailed business tasks into technical solutions.
Demonstrate conformance to all Barclays Enterprise Risk Management Policies, particularly Model Risk Policy.
Ensure all development activities are undertaken within the defined control environment.
Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives.
In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.
Demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship.
Demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive.

Nice To Haves

Experience operating AI systems in production, including AgentOps, CI/CD, monitoring, evaluation, and optimisation
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

Responsibilities

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.
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.
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.
Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives.
In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.
Work on high impact AI engagements with senior stakeholders, building solutions that have the potential to become defining achievements of your career.