Lead Enterprise AI Architect

About the Opportunity Job Type: Permanent Application Deadline: 11 September 2026 Job Description                                                                                                                       Title:                                                    Lead Enterprise AI Architect Department:                                         Technology Location:                                             Global  Reports to:                                          Head of Domain and Practises Architecture Level:                                                  7   We’re proud to have been helping our clients build better financial futures for over 50 years. How have we achieved this? By working together - and supporting each other - all over the world. So, join our Technology team and feel like you’re part of something bigger.   About your team The pace of change across financial services continues to accelerate, driven by cloud adoption, digital transformation, artificial intelligence, increasing cyber threats, evolving regulatory obligations, and changing customer expectations. The Enterprise Architecture team plays a critical role in ensuring Fidelity's technology landscape remains secure, resilient, scalable, and fit for the future. Operating across business, technology, data, and security domains, Enterprise Architecture provides strategic direction, governance, and assurance to ensure change initiatives deliver sustainable business outcomes while effectively managing risk. The AI Architecture function is responsible for defining and governing Fidelity's enterprise AI architecture, establishing AI capabilities, reference architectures, standards, patterns, controls, and operating principles that enable the responsible adoption of AI at scale across the organisation. About your role As the Lead Enterprise AI Architect, you will be accountable for defining and governing Fidelity's enterprise AI architecture strategy and target state. You will establish the architectural foundations required to enable AI-enabled business transformation while ensuring solutions remain secure, compliant, explainable, resilient, cost-effective, and aligned to enterprise objectives. You will act as the senior architectural authority for Artificial Intelligence across the organisation, providing strategic leadership, governance, assurance, and challenge across business initiatives, enterprise platforms, technology programmes, and innovation activities. The role is responsible for defining and evolving enterprise AI capabilities, including: ·        Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) ·        Agentic AI and autonomous systems ·        Machine Learning and predictive analytics ·        AI-enabled business processes and automation ·        Knowledge management and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) ·        Enterprise AI platforms and shared services ·        AI governance, risk, compliance and assurance ·        AI observability, monitoring and model management ·        Responsible AI and ethical AI practices You will define enterprise AI architecture standards, patterns, guardrails, and reference architectures covering areas such as: ·        Agent architectures ·        AI application patterns ·        Model lifecycle management ·        Prompt engineering practices ·        AI integration and orchestration ·        AI security and resilience ·        AI data governance ·        Human-in-the-loop controls ·        Model evaluation and testing ·        AI