Lead engineer building secure GenAI platforms, RAG pipelines, and enterprise applications for Vancity, a member-owned Canadian credit union. Leading production delivery, integrations, governance, and engineering standards.
Responsibilities
Lead end-to-end delivery of secure Generative AI and agentic AI solutions from discovery and prototyping through production deployment, stabilization, and support
Translate ambiguous business needs into measurable requirements, technical designs, thin vertical slices, and scalable solutions
Develop secure, accessible React and TypeScript applications supporting enterprise AI workflows, including human review, evidence, approvals, and exception handling
Integrate AI services with enterprise data, APIs, systems of record, workflow platforms, identity, and approved tools or connectors
Implement secure CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, observability, controlled release management, rollback, and production-support practices
Establish evaluation frameworks, representative test datasets, automated tests, engineering quality gates, and operational monitoring
Embed privacy, governance, security, risk management, and Responsible AI controls into solutions
Provide code-level leadership through mentoring, technical design guidance, code reviews, and hands-on troubleshooting
Diagnose and resolve failures across models, retrieval, agents, tools, data, APIs, user interfaces, identity, infrastructure, and downstream systems
Coordinate cross-functional dependencies and support operational readiness, knowledge transfer, and sustainable handover
Report directly to the Senior Manager, Generative and Cognitive AI
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Data Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience
Minimum 8 years of progressive experience in software engineering, full-stack development, machine learning engineering, or AI solution delivery
Deep, recent hands-on experience building, integrating, deploying, and supporting production GenAI, RAG, agentic AI, or intelligent automation systems
Advanced experience building production-grade Python applications, APIs, asynchronous services, and distributed systems
Strong software design, testing, and debugging skills
Strong experience developing secure, accessible front-end applications using React, TypeScript, and related frameworks
Hands-on experience with Azure cloud technologies, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, Microsoft Foundry, Databricks, or comparable AI platforms
Experience designing and implementing RAG pipelines, context engineering, structured generation, agentic workflows, secure tool integrations, and enterprise AI solutions
Strong SQL and production data-engineering capability, including data profiling, transformation, quality validation, schema evolution, lineage, and reliable batch or event-driven pipelines
Experience integrating AI services with enterprise data, APIs, application systems, and workflow platforms
Strong knowledge of DevOps, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, containers, identity, observability, application monitoring, resilience, and controlled release practices
Experience designing repeatable evaluation and regression methods for AI quality, safety, task success, and operational performance
Experience leading technical delivery while remaining a substantial hands-on contributor, providing mentorship, and establishing engineering standards and best practices
Knowledge of secure coding, Responsible AI principles, privacy controls, data governance, and enterprise risk requirements
Ability to work directly with business users, domain experts, engineers, data and infrastructure teams, architecture, and control functions
Clear written and verbal communication
Experience deploying Large Language Models, agent frameworks, and advanced Generative AI applications in enterprise environments
Experience with intelligent document processing, multimodal AI, high-volume document workflows, or human-in-the-loop reviewer solutions
Experience with Microsoft Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, MLflow, Unity Catalog, and Databricks AI capabilities
Experience with enterprise API management, event-driven integration, workflow automation, and approved MCP-based tools or connectors
Experience implementing GenAIOps, LLMOps, AgentOps, or MLOps capabilities across multiple environments
Experience with containerization technologies, Kubernetes, cloud-native architectures, and platform engineering
Experience working in financial services, another regulated industry, or an environment handling sensitive information
Relevant certifications in Azure, Databricks, cloud architecture, AI engineering, security, DevOps, or software development disciplines
Benefits
Competitive rewards and benefits
Customizable flexible benefit packages for permanent employees
3–4 weeks of vacation per year initially, with additional days earned over time
2 extra statutory holidays in addition to BC’s 11 statutory holidays
Care days for personal or family illness
Health and dental benefits from the hire date, with three coverage levels
Defined benefit pension providing guaranteed income for life
Inclusive hiring and career development programs for Indigenous, Black, or Trans candidates
Accessible, barrier-free recruitment experience and accommodations/support during the recruitment process
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