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According to Cnbc, job postings for AI-related roles at banks including JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Capital One rose 49% this year from 2025, reaching 139,819 listings. Draup, an enterprise hiring data firm, said references to “agent orchestration” surged 1,721%, making it one of finance’s fastest-growing technical skill areas.
Draup’s analysis draws on public job posts and platforms including LinkedIn. The firm said banks are moving beyond chatbots and expanding hiring beyond engineers and data scientists who build or adapt models. Demand is growing for forward-deployed engineers who integrate AI into trading desks, compliance units, back-office operations and other business functions.
These workers need technical capabilities as well as knowledge of the business areas where AI is being deployed, Draup CEO Vijay Swaminathan said. Agent orchestration involves determining which specialized agents are needed, assigning their tasks, selecting technology and deciding when human oversight is required. Draup said references to LangGraph rose 679%, LlamaIndex mentions increased 291%, and references to retrieval-augmented generation climbed 259%.
The AI hiring push also includes governance, risk and control roles. References tied to responsible AI increased 657%, while AI governance and risk-management mentions rose 394% and 359%, respectively, Draup said. Governance-related skills accounted for more than 16,000 references in its data, nearly twice the roughly 8,400 linked to training, deploying and running models. Roles tied to generative AI and agents generally pay more than other finance technology jobs, with generative AI managers earning a median base salary of about $190,000, according to Draup.
Despite the higher compensation, Swaminathan said specialized hiring remains difficult. Major banks are leaning on internal reskilling programs for developers and domain experts as they build AI capabilities. JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon has spoken of “huge redeployment plans” as AI takes over more work.
