Forward Deployed AI Engineer - Senior Manager

Role description

Responsibilities

• Own account-level AI transformation from platform selection and architecture through enterprise adoption and scaled reinvention.
• Take accountability for deployment outcomes including time-to-value, reliability, adoption, and ROI, reporting directly to client executive leadership.
• Translate executive strategic intent into production AI systems operating across the enterprise.
• Define enterprise AI architecture standards and governance for identity, data, security, multi-platform integration, and AI lifecycle management.
• Shape AI investment strategy, board-level narratives, and multi-year roadmaps with client CTO, CFO, and CISO stakeholders.
• Codify reusable enterprise AI patterns and playbooks for use across markets, industries, and the global practice.
• Lead executive workshops, board-level engagements, and cross-practice architecture reviews.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or college diploma in a related field.
• 10–15 years of cloud-native engineering experience, including APIs, microservices, containerization, and serverless architectures.
• At least 1 year designing and deploying production agentic solutions involving agents, orchestration, context engineering, RAG, or workflows.
• At least 7 years working with AI platforms such as OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI, or open-source models.
• Experience building abstraction layers for multi-provider AI pipelines.
• 10–15 years leading software engineering teams, including delivery oversight, resource allocation, and professional development of direct reports.
• End-to-end ownership in a client-embedded environment and direct enterprise client experience on AI deployment initiatives.
• Experience defining enterprise AI architecture standards, engaging executive stakeholders on strategy and investment, and leading executive or board-level engagements.
• Experience developing reusable deployment frameworks or playbooks and contributing to engineering standards, practice models, or capability frameworks.

Compensation

• For full-time employment, the stated annual base pay range for British Columbia, Ontario, and New Brunswick is CAD 142,050–292,000; actual compensation varies and may exceed the range.