AI Solution Architect

Design secure scalable and governed AI solutions for Canada Life. Translate business requirements into end-to-end solution architectures and provide architecture leadership through delivery. Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture standards security requirements operational objectives and AI governance principles.

What you will do:

• Own architecture and solution design quality for AI initiatives from concept through production deployment.

• Create candidate architectures end-to-end solution sketches and target-state solution designs.

• Produce architecture deliverables including system context logical architecture physical architecture security sequence and data flow diagrams integration specifications and ADRs.

• Define non-functional requirements for security privacy resiliency scalability observability performance maintainability supportability and cost efficiency.

• Ensure delivered solutions align with approved architecture enterprise standards operational requirements and AI governance controls.

• Support architecture reviews governance forums design walkthroughs and production readiness assessments.

• Design reusable architecture patterns and reference architectures for generative AI agentic AI RAG intelligent automation machine learning and knowledge management solutions.

• Design application integration data deployment and security architectures for AI platforms and AI-enabled business solutions.

• Define architecture standards design principles approved technology patterns and implementation guidance for AI engineering teams.

• Establish architecture guardrails for security privacy responsible AI monitoring auditability compliance and operational support.

• Evaluate emerging AI technologies platforms frameworks and architecture approaches for enterprise adoption.

Innovation and proof of value

• Lead proof of concept and proof of value initiatives for new tools platforms AI services and emerging technologies.

• Validate technical feasibility business value security considerations operational readiness support models and integration requirements.

• Produce architecture recommendations adoption guidance and target-state architecture based on proof of concept outcomes.

• Contribute to the continuous improvement of Canada Life AI architecture standards reference architectures and engineering practices.

Collaboration and leadership

• Partner with AI Engineering Data Engineering Enterprise Architecture Security Risk Privacy Platform Engineering and Product teams.

• Communicate architecture decisions design trade-offs and technology recommendations to technical and business stakeholders.

• Escalate architecturally significant decisions risks standards gaps and exception requests through architecture governance processes.

• Mentor engineers and solution designers on architecture practices documentation standards and AI solution design patterns.

What will you bring:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Information Technology or a related discipline.

• 7 years of experience in solution architecture software engineering application architecture data engineering cloud engineering or related technology disciplines.

• 3 years designing and delivering AI machine learning generative AI intelligent automation or advanced analytics solutions.

• Experience creating architecture artefacts solution blueprints technical specifications ADRs and architecture diagrams.

• Experience working in large complex and regulated environments preferably financial services or insurance.

• Strong knowledge of cloud architecture application architecture API design integration patterns security architecture and data architecture.

• Knowledge of Azure AI Foundry Services and Azure AI Foundry architecture patterns.

• Experience with Azure OpenAI Azure Machine Learning DatabricksAWS Bedrockand modern AI engineering platforms.

• Experience with AI observability model evaluation vector databases enterprise search and knowledge management solutions.

• Hands-on experience with Python AI frameworks agent orchestration frameworks and RAG implementation patterns.

• Architecture cloud security or data certifications such as TOGAF or Microsoft Azure certifications.

• Reliability Status Security Clearance this can only be completed with candidates who receive an offer of employment. This is a personal security status that is required as a condition of employment before an employee can gain access to Protected B information assets or work sites as outlined by theGovernment of Canada website. The cost of submitting these checks will be covered by Canada Life.