AI AND GENAI ARCHITECT (BILINGUAL)

Position Description.
The Emerging Technologies team in Global Technology and Operations (GTO) Canada at CGI is a trusted Data, Cloud and AI advisor and go-to implementation partner for our global clients' Data and Advanced Analytics needs.
We're an entrepreneurial team that is on a continuous mission to position CGI as the best-in-class AI partner and develop new and exciting opportunities in latest technologies.
Location.
Montreal- preferred- Open to locations within proximity to a CGI Office with a preference Bilingual.
Bilingualism in French and English is mandatory for this role ** Extensive hands-on development experience in Generative AI projects is a MUST HAVE - this is not a beginner role please** **This is a hands-on and Architect role, not a pure architecture design role** **This role comes with sometimes intense delivery expectations churning out POVs for clients in a short period of time and then going on to implement a full-scale production solution ensuring right user experience and adoption** Your future duties and responsibilities.
As an AI and Generative AI Architect (bilingual) on our team, your responsibilities will include.
· Leading a client or internal CGI project as the Technical Architect and Lead - architecting solutions and also contributing in part hands-on to solution development · Building Large Language Models-based and NLP-based solutions for CGI clients by researching the best in class techniques and being a self-starter with newer technologies · Having strong architectural acumen designing solution architectures for AI and GenAI solutions · Mitigating risks and optimizing costs associated with choosing a GenAI architecture solution and advise clients on best practices in GenAI · Helping data engineer and prompt engineer the LLM solutions end-to-end to enhance end user experience · Being "hands-on" to build, tune, deploy and monitor (MLOps and LLMOps) robust Machine Learning solutions built on RAG and latest GenAI techniques · Helping fine-tune LLMs with latest cost optimized PEFT techniques like LoRA, QLoRA · Strategically and intensely collaborating with innovation team and the client stakeholders and account teams to ideate and build key GenAI solutions · Collaborating with other Data Scientists and Data Engineers in a client engagement setting and leading the delivery of work · Implementing proof of concepts to show value and then package and scale to full ML solutions at scale on both on-prem and cloud environments Required qualifications to be successful in this role.
· Bilingual.
Must be able to communicate in both French and English · Architecture design and solution design experience with GenAI and AI solutions - including aspects like cost, scalability, security, performance, and maintainability · Hands-on work experience with implementing Generative AI, LLMs, or GenAI solutions on at least 2-5 different projects or at least 1 project that was deployed in production · Prompt Engineering experience on tools such as Azure Promptflow, Amazon Bedrock, Azure AI Studio would be ideal · Experience building LLM-based solution on Azure, AWS or GCP · Experience fine-tuning LLMs with latest techniques · Experience with multiple models including open source models deployment (LLaMa, Mistral et al) · Experience with multiple Vector Databases · Ņ or more years "hands-on" working experience delivering diverse Advanced Analytics and AI solutions · Hands-on expertise in building and deploying code in Python, SQL and major programming languages with at least one major Cloud platform Azure, AWS, GCP Additional non-essential qualifications · Experience with GenAI agents and agentic frameworks like Crew, Autogen etc.
· Experience with MSFT 365 Copilot, Copilot plugins and connectors, Copilot Studio 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 ‘architect’ in this job posting refers to the technical sense related to Information Technology (IT) and does not imply that the individual practices architecture or possesses the requisite license as prescribed by the applicable provincial or territorial architect regulator.
We are seeking individuals with expertise in IT architect-related functions, but licensure from an architect regulator is not a prerequisite for this position.
Architecture is a regulated profession in Canada which is restricted in terms of use of titles and designation.
Skills.
Data Engineering Data Migration Data Modeling Data Validation Data Warehousing English French What you can expect from us.
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You’ll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.
You’ll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last.
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We strive to create a work culture where all belong and collaborate with clients in building more inclusive communities.
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