Lead Senior Generative AI Engineer

Our Story & Purpose:

Were Vancity a member-owned credit union built on the principles of inclusion and social justice. Since 1946 our relentless commitment to these values has helped us challenge the status quo and break down barriers. Weve made bold commitments to become net-zero by 2040 across all mortgages and loans and were actively pursuing strategies in Indigenous banking and financial resilience for our members.

We are committed to being a pioneer in Ethical AI. We design and deploy AI systems responsiblygrounded in fairness transparency privacy and human-centered valuesto ensure technology benefits our members communities and society at large.

As the largest private sector Living Wage Employer in Canada were proud to be consistently recognized as one of the countrys Top Employers. If youre ready to join our team of 2300 diverse individuals access competitive rewards and benefits and be part of a greater movement - apply today!

Your Role in Supporting Our Members:

We are seeking a SeniorGen AI Engineer to join our GenAI & Cognitive AI Pod focused on building production ready Generative AI & Agentic AI solutions that support cognitive reasoning automation and decisioning.

This role is highly hands-on and best suited for a software engineer who understands AI deeply enough to build deploy and operate GenAI systems at scale. You will work closely with GenAI leadership AI engineers ML engineers and RPA teams to design and deliver LLM based workflows agentic pipelines and GenAI APIs.

This is a highly hands on engineering role; success is measured by production ready GenAI systems not slideware or experimentation alone.

This is aFull-time Permanentrole based at our Head Office in Vancouver British Columbia and reporting to Director of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Centre of Excellence.

Our head office is based in Vancouver but we are open to candidates in BC and Ontario. While this position is for an existing vacancy and provides a hybrid work arrangement you will be expected to be on-site for events and business demands when needed.

How Youll Make an Impact:

Build & Deliver GenAI Solutions

• Building end to end LLM workflows from data ingestion and retrieval through inference and response orchestration
• Designing and implementing agentic AI pipelines that support decisioning verification and cognitive automation
• Developing GenAI use cases including:
  - Documenting intelligence and verification
  - Communication mining and NLP
  - Knowledge retrieval and reasoning (RAG)
  - Agent based decision orchestration
• Tune and optimize LLM usage (prompting strategies embeddings retrieval quality latency and cost)

RAG NLP & Classic ML Techniques

• Design and implement Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines including indexing chunking embeddings and retrieval strategies
• Apply classic ML and NLP techniques where appropriate to improve accuracy classification extraction or ranking
• Collaborate with Data Science and ML Engineering partners to integrate predictive models into GenAI workflows

Cloud Pipelines & Deployment

• Build and deploy GenAI solutions on cloud (i.e. Azure and Databricks) following cloud native best practices
• Implement API services to expose GenAI capabilities for downstream consumers (including RPA and business applications)
• Contribute to CI/CD and deployment pipelines for GenAI workloads including environment management and release practices
• Partner with platform and cloud teams to ensure solutions are scalable secure and production ready

Integration & Collaboration

• Integrate GenAI services with RPA workflows (UiPath) and existing ML pipelines
• Work closely with:
  - GenAI & Agentic AI Lead
  - AI Engineers and Full Stack AI Developers
  - Cognitive UX / Prompt Engineers
• Participating in agile delivery rituals (stand-ups planning demos) and contribute to shared engineering standards

What Youll Bring to the Team:

• 47 years of experience in software engineering AI engineering or ML adjacent engineering roles
• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or a related field.
• Strong hands on experience building and deploying cloud based services with fluency in cloud (preferably Azure)
• Practical experience working with Generative AI and LLM concepts including RAG and agentic workflows
• Proven ability to take solutions from prototype to production
• Excellent Python and SQL skills (production quality code data pipelines APIs)
• Strong understanding of:
• LLM workflows and orchestration
• Prompt engineering and retrieval strategies
• API design and service integration
• CI/CD concepts and cloud deployment patterns
• Experience with agent frameworks or tool calling architectures

Extra Skills That Set You Apart:

• Experience with Azure AI services (e.g. Azure OpenAI Azure ML concepts)
• Experience with Databricks for data processing ML or GenAI workflows
• Familiarity with document intelligence OCR NLP or communication mining
• Exposure to MLOps / GenAIOps concepts (model lifecycle monitoring evaluation)
• Experience integrating AI services into RPA or automation platforms (i.e. UI Path Power Automate)
• Familiarity with other cloud ecosystems (AWS or GCP)

Youll Thrive Here If You Are:

• A Hands on Automation Builder: You enjoy writing testing and deploying automations that work reliably in real production environments.
• Technically Curious: Youre interested in how RPA can be enhanced with AI Agentic workflows and cloud services to solve more complex problems.
• Collaborative: You work well with architects AI engineers and business partners and you value shared standards and reusable solutions.
• Quality Driven: You care about robustness error handling and maintainability not just getting something to work once.

We value lived experience so if you are interested in this role we encourage you to apply even if you feel your skills dont perfectly align with those listed.

What Youll Earn:

This role offers a salary range of$125000 - $154350 per annum. The base pay offered may vary depending on factors such as relevant qualifications skills previous experience and internal equity. As part of our total rewards package employees may also be eligible for our annual incentive program subject to program eligibility requirements.

***Open until Filled***

Why Youll Love Working Here:

A career at Vancity is more than just a job youre joining a tradition of change-makers who are creating lasting change for our communities. Beyond base pay we offer a comprehensive total rewards package to ensure our employees are empowered to thrive:

• Living Wage Employer: Were the largest private sector Living Wage Employer in Canada and consistently ranked among Canadas Top Employers.
• Customizable Benefits: Permanent employees receive flexible benefit packages that can be tailored annually to meet evolving needs.
• Generous Vacation: New employees start with 3-4 weeks of vacation per year with additional days earned overtime.
• Extra Stat Holidays: In addition to BCs 11 statutory holidays we offer 2 extra days plus care days for personal or family illness.
• Immediate Health Coverage: Health and dental benefits begin on your hire date with three levels of coverage to choose from.
• Defined Benefit Pension: Our retirement plan provides a guaranteed income for life recognizing that retirement looks different for everyone.

Vancity Talent Programs:

Vancity supports an inclusive hiring process for candidates who self-identify as Indigenous Black or Trans. With special permission from the BC Human Rights Commissioner this initiative provides access to career development opportunities prioritized job screening and feedback. Any information you choose to share will be stored securely and used only for recruitment and career development connected to this initiative in line with the BC Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA). For details please see our dedicated Talent Programs job posting.

At Vancity were committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace to help our people and communities thrive and prosper. Diversity in our workforce is integral so that we can truly represent understand and respond to our community needs and deliver our member experience.

This role is an open vacancy and our hiring process is grounded in fairness transparency and inclusion. We are committed to an inclusive barrier-free and accessible recruitment experience for all candidates. If you require any accommodations or support at any stage of the recruitment process (including the application stage) we encourage you to let us know by contacting our Talent Acquisition team at Were here to work with you to ensure your needs are met promptly and effectively. All requests will be handled with the utmost respect and confidentiality so you can participate fully in the process.

Required Experience:

Senior IC