Chief Ai Architect

Please, no agencies or recruiters, only W2 applicants.

Our direct client, a prominent wealth management firm based in Philadelphia, is hiring an AI Chief Architect. This is a full-time, onsite position located at their Philadelphia headquarters.  Candidates must be eligible for direct perm employment.  Sponsorship is not available.  Candidates will be required to travel to the client site once a month to Center City, Philadelphia.  Seeking candidates located on the East Coast and must come from Private Equity Firms and Wealth Management firms.

The Chief Architect role is a  hands-on, highly visible leadership role for someone who knows wealth management and gets excited about what AI can do.

This is a unique opportunity to set the technical standards and reference patterns that guide how the organization builds technology. The Chief Ai Architect will build and lead a small, high-caliber team of forward-thinking AI engineers who use AI to take on some of the firm s biggest business challenges. This is a hands-on, executive leadership role, and a highly visible one. The selected candidate will work directly with senior business leaders across wealth management, brokerage, and operations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong Background working within the Wealth Management domain.
• Experience building or overhauling a reference architecture and pattern library from a less mature starting point.
• Hands-on experience with the Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence), ideally including migrating a team of Azure DevOps.
• Familiarity with the regulatory and supervisory environment for broker-dealers and registered investment advisors (data retention, entitlements, recordkeeping, exam readiness).
• Experience partnering with a dedicated data office or Chief Data Officer function.
• Direct, hands-on experience with enterprise deployments of Claude or ChatGPT, rather than only casual personal use.
• Broad familiarity across SaaS platforms (like Salesforce or ServiceNow), web engineering, and full-stack engineering enough to know who to bring in for a given initiative.

If you have the proven Ai Expertise and leadership skills, Select Apply Now and a Vega Staffing Specialist will reach out to you.