Lead AI Platform Engineering Specialist

Position Description:

Based in Montréal we have been helping Canadian entrepreneurs manage their small businesses for over 40 years. We offer allinone cloud solutions that simplify payroll and human capital management. Join our dynamic team and contribute to the success of local businesses.

The CGI Payroll Service Center (PSC) is continuing to integrate artificial intelligence into its products and a humanscale organizational context our approach is iterative secure and valuedriven focused on delivering robust and welladapted solutions. As part of this evolution the PSC is creating a new role: AI Platform Lead whose mission is to structure and enhance AI capabilities (both onpremise and cloudbased) and contribute to the delivery of concrete use cases in collaboration with IT data and architecture teams as well as CGIs various AI Practices.

Role Summary
Reporting to the Director Data & AI Governance (IT) the AI Platform Lead is responsible for the design implementation and evolution of a pragmatic and scalable AI platform. They act as the technical owner of the AI platform overseeing architecture choices integrations security performance cost management and reliability. The role combines responsibilities in architecture integration and production deployment with a strong operational product and technical dimension.
The ideal candidate is versatile and able to manage the full lifecycle (design development integration deployment team support).

Your future duties and responsibilities:

AI Platform and Standards (implementation and evolution):
Design deploy and maintain AI platform components: inference services project templates internal libraries and reusable components.
Define pragmatic standards: conventions documentation best practices quality and security criteria.
Ensure operational stability: logging monitoring version management access and secret management.
Define operational requirements.

Endtoend delivery of AI use cases:
Prototype and industrialize highvalue AI use cases (e.g. assistants document search extraction classification automation) thereby contributing to increased customer value.
Implement productionready solutions focused on performance reliability maintainability and traceability.
Work closely with stakeholders to frame needs prioritize and deliver incrementally.

Integration and operation of cloudbased AI services:
Integrate the platform and applications with cloud AI services (e.g. Azure OpenAI OpenAI Azure AI Services or equivalents).
Design secure and compliant integrations (access control data protection internal compliance).
Monitor and optimize usage costs (model selection caching strategies quotas integration best practices).

Autonomy technical leadership and coaching:
Work autonomously on highimpact initiatives delivered iteratively.
Provide technical leadership and contribute to reviews and technology direction.
Contribute to the AI roadmap (platform evolution automation new use cases) in alignment with organizational priorities.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

Behavioral Skills
Resultsoriented mindset with the ability to deliver while managing multiple constraints.
Autonomy rigor and strong sense of priorities.
Ability to structure and standardize progressively (without overengineering).
Strong communication and simplification skills for both technical and nontechnical audiences.
Collaborative mindset and ability to work effectively with multiple teams.

Technical Skills
Intermediate to senior profile: ideally 5 years of experience in software development/engineering including significant handson experience applying AI in a production context.
Proficiency in spoken and written French and English required for communication with bilingual teams and for technical documentation.
Excellent command of software development and integrations (APIs services processing pipelines).
Strong proficiency in Python.
Practical experience with AI solutions including a significant portion of the following:
o Language models (LLMs) and APIbased integration (e.g. Azure OpenAI/OpenAI)
o RAG (embeddings search vector databases) and design of processing chains.
Understanding of AI productionization: cost control abuse prevention security testing versioning monitoring performance management.
Pragmatic DevOps/MLOps knowledge: CI/CD containers (Docker) basic observability.
Cloud knowledge (Azure preferred) and hybrid architectures (asset).

Additional Assets
Demonstrated ability to design robust scalable and secure AI systems.
Experience with hybrid architectures (onpremise cloud).
Strong knowledge of APIs microservices and containerized environments.
Kubernetes and orchestration experience.
Knowledge of search services and vector databases (e.g. pgvector Azure AI Search Pinecone Weaviate).
Applied cybersecurity concepts (IAM secrets management segmentation compliance).
Experience with onpremise infrastructures including GPUs (depending on context).

CGI is providing a reasonable estimate of the pay range for this role. The determination of this range includes factors such as skill set level geographic market experience and training and licenses and certifications. Compensation decisions depend on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $80.000$155000 This role is an existing vacancy / a future opportunity.

Bilingualism (French and English) is required for this position due to the nature of the role requiring interaction with national and global clients.

Use of the term engineering in this job posting refers to the technical sense related to Information Technology (IT) and does not imply that the individual practices engineering or possesses the requisite license as prescribed by the applicable provincial or territorial engineering regulator. We are seeking individuals with expertise in IT engineering-related functions but licensure from an engineering regulator is not a prerequisite for this position. Engineering is a regulated profession in Canada which is restricted in terms of use of titles and designation.

Skills:

• French
• Analytical Thinking
• Customer Service & Support
• English

What you can expect from us:

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