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We continually explore new technology and different ways of working to put our clients first. So, bring your boldest ideas to our (name of team/business area) team and feel like you are making progress.\nAbout your team\nYou will join the CSP platform and design function operating across multiple squads and domains. The team drives technical excellence and consistency for agentic AI and MLOps capabilities, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, reliable, and aligned to enterprise standards. We work in close partnership with Product, Architecture, Data Engineering, Security, and Platform teams.\nRole summary\nAct as technical authority across squads, driving consistent engineering practices, architecture alignment, and engineering standards for agentic AI and ML-enabled services.\nOwn the technical delivery of CSP's agent interoperability capability, including shared APIs, Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, reusable agents, and agent-to-agent interaction patterns.\nOwn technical direction and solve complex cross-team challenges across CSP platforms.\nPartner with Engineering Managers, Architects, and Product to shape scalable solutions and influence roadmaps.\nEnsure alignment with enterprise standards, security controls, and regulatory requirements.\nChampion engineering excellence by mentoring senior engineers, promoting reusability and automation, and supporting responsible AI adoption.\nKey Responsibilities\nTechnical outcomes\nDrive technical alignment and architecture consistency across squads.\nDeliver reusable APIs, MCP servers, and controls for secure agent-to-agent and tool interaction across CSP.\nEnsure cross-team technical risks are identified, tracked, and mitigated.\nSupport resolution of major production issues and escalations for AI and ML services.\nTechnical contribution\nDefine technical direction and enforce engineering standards for agentic AI and MLOps.\nLead complex design decisions and cross-team integrations across data, model, and platform layers.\nDesign, build, and operate production-grade APIs, MCP servers, agent services, and tool integrations used across CSP.\nDefine reusable agent interaction and orchestration patterns, covering contracts, versioning, resilience, tracing, security, and auditability.\nBuild and improve CI/CD pipelines for ML and agentic workflows, including versioning and rollback controls.\nPromote reusability, scalability, and modernisation across solutions.\nContribute to enterprise standards and engineering communities, including Inner Source practices.\nMentor senior engineers and build technical capability across teams.\nDefine and enforce non-functional requirements across squads, including reliability, resilience, security, and observability.\nEnsure future readiness through technology evaluation and modernisation planning.\nStakeholder management\nPartner with Product, Architecture, and business stakeholders.\nInfluence roadmap and investment decisions using technical evidence and risk-aware options.\nAI adoption\nPromote adoption of AI-assisted engineering and agentic delivery patterns at scale.\nDefine guardrails, evaluation, and release controls for secure, reliable, and responsible AI usage.\nCost discipline\nDrive cost-efficient architecture and infrastructure decisions across squads.\nEvaluate build versus buy trade-offs for cross-team solutions.\nEnsure licensing, model serving, and cloud costs are optimized across the domain.\nSuccess indicators\nConsistent engineering practices and adopted, reliable shared APIs, MCP servers, and agent interaction patterns across CSP.\nReduced technical debt and improved platform scalability.\nEffective resolution of cross-team technical challenges.\nStrong technical capability across engineering teams.\nStrong adherence to non-functional requirements across teams.\nAbout you\nCore skills\nProven experience as a senior engineer operating across multiple squads or a domain.\nStrong MLOps engineering capability: CI/CD for ML, model lifecycle, and production operations.\nStrong hands-on Python and service engineering, including secure APIs, distributed services, authentication, authorisation, and observability.\nExperience building MCP servers and clients, or equivalent AI tool-integration protocols, and designing resilient agent-to-agent workflows.\nHands-on experience with container and cloud platforms, including Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS.\nStrong architecture and non-functional thinking across reliability, security, scalability, and performance.\nAbility to influence technical direction and collaborate effectively with Product, Architecture, and Engineering leadership.\nDemonstrated mentoring of senior engineers and contribution to engineering standards.\nBonus skills\nExperience in regulated financial services environments.\nExperience with agentic AI evaluation frameworks, agent interoperability standards, and safety or guardrail design.\nExposure to model registry, feature store, and data quality frameworks.\nExperience with policy-as-code, platform security automation, and FinOps practices.\nContribution to Inner Source or enterprise engineering communities.\nFeel rewarded\nFor starters, we’ll offer you a comprehensive benefits package. We’ll value your wellbeing and support your development. And we’ll be as flexible as we can about where and when you work - finding a balance that works for all of us. It’s all part of our commitment to making you feel motivated by the work you do and happy to be part of our team. For more about our work, our approach to dynamic working and how you could build your future here, visit careers.fidelityinternational.com.\nFor more about our work, our approach to dynamic working and how you could build your future here, visit careers.fidelityinternational.com.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6030,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Wealth Management & Financial Advisors","Central Banks & Financial Regulators"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-30T21:32:19Z"},{"event":"close","at":"2026-10-10T17:42:01Z"},{"event":"reopen","at":"2026-10-14T10:00:45Z"},{"event":"close","at":"2026-10-19T07:41:35Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":null,"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/fidelity-international-principal-engineer-ii","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/fidelity-international-principal-engineer-ii.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-19T07:43:39Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":5055,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-20T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1819505},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1819505"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Ffidelity-international-principal-engineer-ii"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Ffidelity-international-principal-engineer-ii"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Ffidelity-international-principal-engineer-ii"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/fidelity-international-principal-engineer-ii\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Ffidelity-international-principal-engineer-ii"}]}