Lead Data Engineer, Applied AI Data Ingestion & Integration

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Lead Data Engineer Applied AI Data Ingestion & Integration (DII) team

Team Overview

We accelerate BMOs AI journey by building enterprise-grade cloud-native capabilities and AI solutions. Our team combines engineering excellence with cutting-edge AI to deliver scalable secure and responsible solutions that power business innovation across the bank. We are engineers AI practitioners platform builders thought leaders multipliers and coders. Above all we are a global team of diverse individuals who enjoy working together to create smart secure and scalable solutions that make an impact across the enterprise.

The Applied AI Data Ingestion & Integration (DII) team provides endtoend services to help move prepare and operationalize data for AI and analytics workloads. As a Lead Data Engineer within the (DII) Team you will play a key role in enabling BMOs AI and advanced analytics capabilities by transforming complex business requirements into scalable data solutions. You will lead the analysis profiling integration quality assessment and operationalization of structured semi-structured and unstructured data used across AI machine learning and Generative AI applications.

This position involves close collaboration with various technology teams Cross POD leads Data Engineers Data Scientists Architects AI and Data engineers and Business stakeholders to push the adoption of Generative AI technologies and agentic flows across enterprise-wide applications and processes and to develop partnerships with third-party providers for validating and adopting production-grade solutions. Your work will directly support the development of AI-ready datasets multimodal document ingestion pipelines Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions Building various connectors resources and tools for (Model Context Protocol) MCPs.

This role requires deep technical expertise strong engineering judgement and the ability to lead through influence. The successful candidate will be expected to own technical outcomes mentor engineers manage ambiguity and drive measurable improvements in platform capability delivery quality operational resilience and business value.

Key Responsibilities:

Data Analysis & Integration Leadership

• Deep hands-on technical leadership with enterprise data onboarding ingestion and integration initiatives supporting AI analytics and business intelligence use cases.
• Lead and partner with Product Owners Data Engineers Data Scientists and business stakeholders to translate business needs into actionable data requirements data models and integration strategies.
• Design and implement reliable scalable data ingestion and integration pipelines for structured semi-structured unstructured data (e.g. databases files documents APIs events) and multi-modal data ensuring data is AI ready governed secure and observable.
• Ensure pipelines follow enterprise governance access control and security standards including role-based access and lineage considerations. Monitor pipeline performance troubleshoot failures and optimize cost and throughput.
• Document processes share knowledge and contribute to a culture of continuous learning and responsible innovation.

Data Quality Governance & Compliance

• Establish and monitor data quality standards controls and metrics to ensure accuracy completeness timeliness and consistency.
• Partner with Data Governance Risk Compliance and Model Risk Management teams to ensure adherence to enterprise data policies regulatory requirements and Responsible AI standards.
• Support data lineage metadata management data cataloging and traceability capabilities across ingestion and integration platforms.

AI & Advanced Analytics Enablement

• Collaborate with AI and Data Science teams to prepare validate and optimize datasets for machine learning Generative AI and advanced analytics applications.
• Support multimodal data ingestion initiatives involving documents images audio video and enterprise knowledge repositories.
• Analyze performance and effectiveness of chunking indexing retrieval and data preparation strategies used in RAG and AI Search solutions.
• Develop productiongrade services and AI capabilities using Python REST APIS JSON/XML vector databases RAG evaluation and retrieval metrics.
• Develop analytical frameworks and KPIs to measure data platform effectiveness ingestion performance quality trends and business outcomes.
• Evaluate emerging AI and data management technologies and recommend opportunities to improve DII capabilities.

Stakeholder Management & Leadership

• Lead cross-functional initiatives from discovery through production partnering with business technology architecture risk security and operations teams.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to analysts and junior team members fostering a culture of continuous learning and analytical excellence and technical accountability.
• Communicate complex technical findings risks and recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences including senior leadership.
• Own and drive continuous improvement initiatives that increase automation operational efficiency and scalability of data ingestion and integration processes.

Required Qualifications:

• 8-10 years of experience in Data Engineering/ support or related analytics disciplines preferably within large enterprise environments.
• 3 years experience as a Technical Delivery leader
• Demonstrated experience in leading technical delivery for enterprise data integration data warehousing ETL/ELT processes cloud data platforms data governance and production analytics or AI platforms.
• Strong proficiency in SQL Python or similar and experience working with large-scale datasets across cloud and on-premises environments.
• Experience using analytical and visualization tools such as Power BI Tableau Python Azure Data Factory Azure AI Search or equivalent technologies.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence decisions across business and technology organizations.
• Demonstrated ability to lead initiatives manage priorities and deliver results in fast-paced highly regulated environments.
• Familiarity with MLOps CI/CD and cloud-based AI infrastructure.
• Knowledge of Agile delivery methodologies and experience working within cross-functional product teams.
• Experience working within financial services banking risk compliance or other highly regulated industries is a plus.
• Knowledge of Responsible AI Model Risk Management SR 11-7 OSFI E-23 or related governance frameworks is a plus.
• Commitment to BMOs values of inclusion integrity and responsible innovation.

Education

• Bachelors degree in computer science Information Systems Data Analytics Statistics Engineering Mathematics Business Analytics or a related quantitative field.
• Masters degree in data science Analytics Computer Science Information Management Business Administration or a related field is preferred.
• Relevant certifications in Data Management Cloud Platforms (Azure/AWS) Analytics AI or Data Governance are considered an asset.

The above represents BMO Financial Groups pay range and type.

Salaries will vary based on factors such as location skills experience education and qualifications for the role and may include a commission structure. Salaries for part-time roles will be pro-rated based on number of hours regularly worked. For commission roles the salary listed above represents BMO Financial Groups expected target for the first year in this position.

BMO Financial Groups total compensation package will vary based on the pay type of the position and may include performance-based incentives discretionary bonuses as well as other perks and rewards. BMO also offers health insurance tuition reimbursement accident and life insurance and retirement savings plans. To view more details of our benefits please visit: Us

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