AI Engineer - Gen AI & Agentic Solutions

About Aviso Wealth

Aviso is a leading wealth management and investment services provider for the Canadian financial industry, with approximately $145 billion in total assets under administration and management, and over 1,000 employees. We're building a comprehensive, technology-enabled, client-centric wealth services ecosystem. Our clients include our partners, advisors, and investors. We're a trusted partner for nearly all credit unions across Canada, in addition to a wide range of portfolio managers, investment dealers, insurance and trust companies, and introducing brokers.

Our partners depend on Aviso for specific solutions that give them a competitive edge in a rapidly evolving, highly competitive industry. Our investment dealer and mutual fund dealer and our insurance services support thousands of investment advisors. Our asset manager, NEI Investments, specializes in investing responsibly. Our online brokerage, Qtrade Direct Investing®, empowers self-directed investors, and our fully automated investing service, Qtrade Guided Portfolios®, serves investors who prefer a hands-off approach. Aviso Correspondent Partners provides custodial and carrying broker services to a wide range of firms. We have offices in Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal. Aviso is backed by the collective strength of our owners: the credit union Centrals, Co-operators/CUMIS, and Desjardins.

At Aviso, we are dedicated to improving the financial well-being of Canadians. We are committed to leadership, innovation, partnership, responsibility, and community.

The Opportunity

We're looking for an AI Engineer, GenAI & Agentic Solutions to join our Data & Analytics Partners team.

Reporting to the Sr. Director of Data Science and AI Enablement, the GenAI & Agentic Solutions role is responsible for designing, building, and scaling practical GenAI and agentic AI solutions that solve meaningful business problems across Aviso and the broader wealth ecosystem.

The role translates business opportunities into secure, usable, and measurable AI experiences, including conversational AI, retrieval-augmented generation, intelligent knowledge experiences, and tool-integrated agentic workflows.

Working primarily across Databricks and AWS, while supporting Azure-based environments where required, the role takes solutions from discovery and proof-of-value through controlled production delivery.

Our Values: oneaviso

• We Care – You do the right thing for clients, partners and colleagues. You build trusted relationships, champion service excellence, and contribute to a culture where people feel valued and supported
• We Dare – You challenge the status quo with bold ideas and fresh perspectives. You embrace change, seek opportunities to innovate and are comfortable exploring new ways of working
• We Share – You collaborate openly and build meaningful relationships. You seek out diverse perspectives, share your knowledge and work together to help colleagues, clients and partners succeed
• We Deliver – You take ownership of your work, honour your commitments and focus on delivering meaningful results. You hold yourself accountable and continuously look for ways to improve

What Your Day Looks Like

• Partner with business and domain teams to translate priority opportunities into clear GenAI and agentic solution designs, user journeys, success measures, and delivery plans
• Design and build conversational AI, retrieval-augmented generation, intelligent knowledge experiences, and agentic workflows that improve service, productivity, and decision-making
• Develop trusted retrieval and grounding patterns using enterprise content, knowledge, and data
• Build secure integrations between AI solutions, business applications, enterprise data, APIs, and tools, including human-in-the-loop review, escalation, and approval patterns where appropriate
• Improve prompts, context strategies, tool selection, workflow logic, and user experiences to increase solution quality, reliability, and usefulness
• Define and apply evaluation, testing, and feedback approaches to measure solution quality, safety, business value, and user outcomes
• Partner with AI Platform & ML Engineering to move solutions through approved production pathways using established deployment, observability, security, and governance standards
• Continuously assess emerging GenAI, agentic AI, and related platform capabilities; translate relevant trends into practical recommendations, proof-of-value opportunities, and reusable solution patterns

Your Experience and Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Engineering, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, or a related technical field with equivalent hands on experience building data, AI, software, platform or cloud engineering solutions
• 7+ years of experience with 3+ years of experience in software, data, machine learning, or AI engineering, including demonstrated experience designing and deploying production-oriented GenAI or AI-enabled solutions
• Strong Python, SQL, and Git-based software development skills
• Experience designing and building GenAI applications, including conversational AI, RAG solutions, or agentic workflows
• Experience connecting AI solutions with enterprise systems, data sources, APIs, tools, and business processes
• Experience applying evaluation and testing approaches for GenAI or agentic solutions, including quality, safety, user feedback, and business-value measures
• Familiarity with secure and responsible AI practices, including privacy, governance, controlled access to enterprise data and tools, and appropriate human oversight
• Curiosity and judgment to assess emerging AI capabilities and recommend practical opportunities for the organization
• Experience developing LLM-powered applications using model APIs, prompt engineering, structured outputs, and agent orchestration frameworks such as LangGraph, LangChain, LlamaIndex, or comparable technologies
• Experience designing and building RAG solutions, including embeddings, chunking, metadata filtering, vector retrieval, retrieval evaluation, and response grounding
• Experience with enterprise vector search and retrieval technologies, such as Databricks AI Search / Vector Search, Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, Amazon OpenSearch vector capabilities, or comparable platforms
• Experience with GenAI evaluation, tracing, observability, and iterative testing using MLflow, LangSmith, or comparable technologies
• Understanding of secure AI solution design, including identity and access control, delegated permissions, secrets management, privacy, guardrails, auditability, controlled tool access, and enterprise data governance
• Fluent communication skills in English are required and bilingual skills in French are an asset

Why Aviso Wealth

At Aviso Wealth, you will find a dynamic and inclusive culture that rewards innovation and celebrates success. Here are a few things that set us apart:

• Competitive compensation package that rewards and recognizes individual contributions
• Excellent health, dental and insurance benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees
• Generous vacation time, fitness benefit, parental leave top-up options
• Matching contributions to our retirement program
• Commitment to the continuous improvement of our staff through learning & development and an education assistance program
• Regular social events to foster teamwork

Compensation

This position is posted with an expected salary range of $125,000 - $135,000 CAD annually. Individual compensation packages are based on various factors unique to each candidate and the requirements of the position.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Aviso welcomes and encourages applications from all qualified individuals including persons with disabilities. If you require an accommodation, we will work with you to meet your needs in all stages of the hiring process.

We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.

No recruiters or agencies, please.

Your Information

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