Senior AI Solutions Engineer

Crestpoint Real Estate Investments

Job Location:

Toronto - Canada

Monthly Salary: $ 150000 - 170000

Posted on: 10 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Senior AI Solutions Engineer - AI Enablement

Connor Clark & Lunn Financial Group

Toronto ON

Interested in joining one of Canadas top performing asset managers CC&LFG is establishing an AI Enablement function to ensure artificial intelligence is adopted responsibly securely and at enterprise scale across the firm. The Senior AI Solutions Engineer is a foundational role in this function. This is not a product feature role and not a research role. You will act as a technical multiplier designing reference architectures building exemplar solutions and enabling teams across the business to use AI safely and effectively. You will operate at the intersection of AI data platforms governance and business workflows balancing rapid experimentation with the rigor required in a regulated financial services environment. Success in this role is defined not by the number of models built but by capability uplift reuse and sustainable adoption.Our officesoperateon a hybrid model with three days in-office.

What You Will Do

You will shape how AI is adopted at the enterprise level not just what gets built. This role offers the opportunity to define standards influence architecture and enable meaningful AI-driven outcomes across investment operations and client-facing teams while maintaining the trust control and discipline required in financial services.

AI Solution Design & Reference Implementations

Design and prototype AI-enabled workflows using LLMs embeddings RAG pipelines and agent-based architectures.
Build reference implementations (not one-off solutions) that demonstrate approved patterns for:
- Data access and grounding
- Security and access control
- Evaluation and monitoring
- Human-in-the-loop oversight
Translate complex business problems into AI designs that are auditable explainable and operable.

Agentic AI Enablement

Design and operationalize agent-based patterns for workflow automation and decision support.
Define guardrails for agent autonomy including escalation paths confidence thresholds and override mechanisms.
Partner with governance and risk teams to ensure agent behavior aligns with enterprise policies and regulatory expectations.

Platform & Data Alignment

Work closely with Data Platform and Architecture teams to ensure AI solutions align with:
- Governed data products
- Approved integration patterns (APIs events batch)
- Platform constraints (Fabric Databricks cloud services)
Design AI solutions that assume imperfect enterprise data not idealized datasets.

Enablement & Capability Building

Create reusable assets: templates prompt libraries evaluation harnesses and onboarding guides.
Run enablement sessions working labs and design reviews to help teams adopt AI responsibly.
Act as a trusted technical advisor to business and technology leaders on when to use AI and when not to.

Production Readiness & Lifecycle Management

Partner with platform teams to ensure AI solutions are production-ready:
- CI/CD
- Monitoring and alerting
- Versioning and rollback
- Cost awareness and controls
Continuously evaluate emerging tools and frameworks and recommend adoption only where they align with enterprise needs.

Cresting Success

Months 3-6:
- Established trusted relationships with Data Platform Security Risk and Architecture teams.
- Delivered 23 reference AI patterns that teams actively reuse.
- Defined baseline guardrails for agentic AI and LLM usage

Months 6-12:
- Multiple teams independently delivering AI solutions using enablement assets you created.
- Reduced time-to-first-safe-AI-solution across the organization.
- Clear repeatable patterns for AI evaluation deployment and monitoring.
- Leadership confidence that AI adoption is controlled explainable and scalable.

What You Bring

Hands-on experience designing AI solutions using LLMs embeddings RAG and agent frameworks.
Experience deploying AI solutions into real production environments not just demos.
Strong familiarity with cloud AI platforms (Azure OpenAI Azure ML AWS Bedrock OpenAI APIs).
Experience working in regulated or high-governance environments.
Strong understanding of data dependency lineage quality and access control.
Ability to influence without authority and navigate ambiguity across teams.
Comfort balancing innovation with restraint risk management and operational discipline.
Clear communicator with technical and non-technical audiences.
Passionate about teaching enabling and building reusable capability.
Pragmatic: values solutions that are supportable governable and scalable.

The salary range for this position is $150000 - $170000. The salary range provided reflects the base salary range for this position as required by addition there is an annual performance bonus which contributes to the total compensation for this position. Further questions may be directed to the HR team during the interview process.

About Connor Clark & Lunn Financial Group

At CC&L Financial Group we understand the value of opportunity for our clients and our team. Independent and employee-owned we partner with investment professionals to grow successful asset management businesses giving them the space to innovate and truly make an impact.

With more than 40 years of history and offices across Canada and in the US the UK and India CC&L Financial Group and our multi-boutique family of affiliate firms collectively manage over CAD$180 billion in client assets providing a diverse range of traditional and alternative investment products and solutions to institutional high-net-worth and retail clients.

For a closer look at how you can build your career with us we invite you to explore .

CC&L Financial Group is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender ethnicity religion sexual orientation or expression disability or age.

We thank all applicants in advance for their interest but only those candidates shortlisted for interviews will be contacted.No telephone calls or recruitment agencies will be accepted.

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Senior AI Solutions Engineer - AI EnablementConnor Clark & Lunn Financial GroupToronto ONInterested in joining one of Canadas top performing asset managers CC&LFG is establishing an AI Enablement function to ensure artificial intelligence is adopted responsibly securely and at enterprise scale acros...