Sr. Technical Solutions Architect, AI/Data
Role Overview
Hands-on, platform-agnostic technical architect for strategic AI engagements.
Translates business problems into prototypes, scalable reference architectures, and production-grade solutions across public-cloud and sovereign AI environments.
Works with client executives and engineering teams from architecture through secure production delivery.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Hands-on, platform-agnostic technical architect for strategic AI engagements.
Translates business problems into prototypes, scalable reference architectures, and production-grade solutions across public-cloud and sovereign AI environments.
Works with client executives and engineering teams from architecture through secure production delivery.
What you’ll do
- Architect sovereign and on-premise AI solutions using enterprise platforms and open-source model-serving tools.
- Design generative AI and agentic systems, including RAG, CAG, fine-tuning, distillation, and multi-agent orchestration.
- Develop reusable architectures and decision frameworks covering cost, latency, accuracy, governance, and sovereignty.
- Lead client briefings and technical design sessions; support work scoping, effort estimates, and delivery risk reduction.
- Mentor AI practice colleagues through code reviews, enablement, and reusable assets.
- Assess emerging models, frameworks, protocols, and sovereign AI stacks.
Experience and qualifications
- 8+ years in software engineering, solutions or enterprise architecture, or applied AI/ML, including 2+ years hands-on in generative or agentic AI.
- Professional fluency in spoken and written French and English is required.
- Experience designing sovereign or on-premise AI, private model serving, enterprise AI platforms, and on-premise vector or graph stores.
- Knowledge of GPU infrastructure, inference optimization, networking, storage, and Kubernetes GPU scheduling.
- Knowledge of data sovereignty, privacy controls, residency, and air-gapped deployments.
- Deep knowledge of one major hyperscaler AI platform and working knowledge of the other two.
- Production experience with RAG and/or agentic systems, MCP, and enterprise integrations.
- Bachelor’s degree in a related technical field or equivalent demonstrable experience; advanced degree welcomed but not required.
Location and travel
- Remote-friendly work arrangement with periodic travel to client sites and internal events, estimated at 0–15%.
Compensation
- Estimated base pay is CAD 123,760–154,700 annually, plus 30% target incentives.
- Actual pay varies by location, experience, skills, education, and related certifications.
Benefits
- Full-time employees receive health and wellbeing coverage, retirement savings with company matching, insurance, paid leave, and an employee discount program.
Hiring process
- AI may support screening and assessment, with human review before employment decisions.
- The company conducts a criminal record check, verifies education, and checks references.
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