Principal AI Architect
LPL Financial
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This role pays more than 69% of similar roles. Most pay $169,550–$245,800 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $235k versus about $208k for comparable roles.
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USAA (United Services Automobile Association) is a San Antonio-based Fortune 500 financial services company founded in 1922, dedicated to providing insurance, banking, and investment solutions exclusively to U.S. military members, veterans, and their families.
USAA currently has 14 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $143,320–$273,930 across 14 roles with salary data.
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As a Principal AI Platform Architect, you will lead the strategy, architecture, and evolution of the enterprise AI platform to enable generative AI, agentic AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics across the organization. You will collaborate with business and technology leaders to define scalable, secure, and compliant capabilities while establishing governance frameworks, architecture standards, and multi-year roadmaps. Your daily work involves designing systems, services, and dataflows, performing risk assessments, and providing technical mentorship to engineers. The role requires expertise in platform engineering, data architecture, and software engineering within highly regulated environments. You will utilize technologies such as AWS Bedrock, OpenAI, Anthropic, and foundation model ecosystems to build agent architectures, orchestration frameworks, and knowledge management systems including vector search and knowledge graphs. This position solves the challenge of delivering responsible AI at scale while ensuring robust security and operational excellence.
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