AI Solution Architect

The New York Times; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 131,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as an AI Solutions Architect, where you'll leverage AI technologies to enhance operational efficiency across multiple business functions. With a mix of technical prowess and business acumen, you'll be instrumental in driving AI transformation initiatives, ensuring compliance with data protection regulations while fostering a culture of continuous learning and development around AI capabilities.

Benefits

Comprehensive health benefits

Flexible work environment

Generous time off policy

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a technical role with experience in GenAI tools.
• Demonstrated experience with data privacy and ethical AI practices.
• Capable of turning AI experiments into metrics for stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business leaders to implement AI solutions.
• Lead ideation and deployment of AI technologies.
• Champion best practices in AI and ML.

Skills

AI/ML

Data Science

Prompt Engineering

Data Analytics

Privacy and Ethics

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, AI/ML or related field

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

About Us

Diligent is the AI leader in governance, risk and compliance (GRC) SaaS solutions, helping more than 1 million users and 700,000 board members to clarify risk and elevate governance. The Diligent One Platform gives practitioners, the C-Suite and the board a consolidated view of their entire GRC practice so they can more effectively manage risk, build greater resilience and make better decisions, faster.

At Diligent, we're building the future with people who think boldly and move fast.Whether you're designing systems that leverage large language models or part of a team reimaging workflows with AI, you'll help us unlock entirely new ways of working and thinking.Curiosity is in our DNA, we look for individuals willing to ask the big questions and experiment fearlessly - those who embrace change not as a challenge, but as an opportunity.The future belongs to those who keep learning, and we are building it together.At Diligent, you’re not just building the future - you’re an agent of positive change, joining a global community on a mission to make an impact.

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The Team:

Our Business Applications and Analytics team plays a pivotal role in driving business success through data-driven decision-making and operational excellence. This dynamic team manages enterprise-wide applications, including ERP, CRM, and BI systems. By harnessing the power of data and advanced analytical tools, we provide valuable insights that inform strategic initiatives, optimize processes, and enhance overall performance.

Position Overview:

Diligent is ‘All-In’ on AI and is seeking a dynamic and strategic AI leader to join our team as an AI Solutions Architect. As part of the Business Applications and Analytics team, this crucial role is designed to accelerate our Internal AI capabilities across multiple business functions, including Marketing, GTM/Sales, Customer Success & Support, Finance, HR, Legal, and Product and Engineering teams.

The primary goal of this position is to identify, prototype, deploy, and scale AI technologies and solutions that drive greater operational efficiency and effectiveness. The ideal candidate will be a technically adept individual with business acumen, able to bridge the gap between robust technical implementations and business needs, with the ability to partner with various business leaders to spot and act on opportunities for AI-driven transformation and innovation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Partner with business leaders to understand challenges, identify AI opportunities, and implement effective AI/GenAI solutions
• Lead the ideation, prototyping, deployment, and scaling of AI/GenAI technologies and agentic solutions tailored to business needs
• Develop and communicate strategic frameworks and roadmaps for AI initiatives aligned with business goals
• Champion best practices in AI/ML and GenAI development—including responsible AI, privacy, security, and ethical guidelines
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate AI tools within core business processes, ensuring seamless, high-value adoption
• Stay abreast of AI best practices, tools, and methodologies and introduce them to the organization
• Drive AI and Data literacy across the company through training, workshops, and continuous education initiatives
• Ensure compliance with data protection and privacy regulations in all AI implementations
• Monitor and evaluate the performance and effectiveness of AI solutions and continually refine them
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define and achieve key performance indicators (KPIs) and return on investment (ROI) for AI projects
• Advocate and implement AI ethical guidelines and best practices

Required Qualifications:

• Solid Foundations: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, AI/ML, Data Science, or a related technical field
• Practical Tinkerer: 5+ years in a technical role (software, data, DevOps, etc.), with hands on experience building end-to-end prototypes using GenAI tools (GPTs, Hugging Face, open-source LLMs, LangChain, Scikit-learn, etc.)
• Curious Explorer: Demonstrates a hands-on approach to learning in prompt-engineering, fine-tuning, RAG pipelines, or API Integrations, with a commitment to rapid failure, iteration, and sharing findings
• Data Wrangler: Possesses the ability to source, clean, and transform raw data, including spreadsheets, logs, APIs, or CRM exports, into structured inputs for AI experiments and prototypes
• Code Crafter: Capable of writing scripts or small applications to connect models, cloud services, or data sources. Prior experience with TensorFlow, PyTorch, Azure, AWS, or GCP is beneficial, but willingness to learn is equally important
• Business Translator: Experienced as a technical sales engineer or solutions consultant, capable of turning AI experiments into compelling stories and metrics that resonate with non-technical stakeholders
• Responsible AI Mindset: Demonstrated experience in addressing privacy, security, bias, and ethics in professional work, with a strong familiarity with industry-specific data privacy, AI ethics, and compliance requirements
• Team Player: Essential qualities include clear communication and a growth mindset, as you will collaborate with marketers, sales professionals, engineers and leaders

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrates strong knowledge of AI use cases, including NLP, computer vision, data analytics, predictive modelling, and translating technical capabilities into business value, along with proficiency in large language models (LLMs), prompt engineering, RAG architectures, MLOps, LLMOps, and GenAI application deployment
• Advanced programming and data engineering skills, with Python preferred, and experience in cloud-based AI solutions (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Ability to architect and deploy enterprise-scale AI solutions, collaborating across sales, product, and implementation teams to ensure adoption and measurable ROI
• Strategic thinker with strong analytical and problem-solving skills, capable of driving measurable business outcomes through AI/GenAI

Pay Range

$131,000 - $180,000 CAD

What Diligent Offers You

• Creativity is ingrained in our culture. We are innovative collaborators by nature. We thrive in exploring how things can be differently both in our internal processes and to help our clients
• We care about our people.Diligent offers a flexible work environment, global days of service, comprehensive health benefits, meeting free days, generous time off policy and wellness programsto name a few
• We have teams all over the world. We may be headquartered in New York City, but we have office hubs in Washington D.C., Vancouver, London, Galway, Budapest, Munich, Bengaluru, Singapore, and Sydney.
• Diversity is important to us. Growing, maintaining and promoting a diverse team is a top priority for us. We foster and encourage diversity through our Employee Resource Groups and provide access to resources and education to support the education of our team, facilitate dialogue, and foster understanding.

Diligent created the modern governance movement. Our world-changing idea is to empower leaders with the technology, insights and connections they need to drive greater impact and accountability –to lead with purpose. Our employees are passionate, smart, and creative people who not only want to help build the software company of the future, but who want to make the world a more sustainable, equitable and better place.

Headquartered in New York, Diligent has offices in Washington D.C.,London, Galway, Budapest, Vancouver, Bengaluru, Munich, Singapore and Sydney.To foster strong collaboration and connection, this role will follow a hybrid work model. If you are within a commuting distance to one of our Diligent office locations, you will be expected towork onsite at least 50% of the time.We believe that in-person engagement helps drive innovation, teamwork, and a strong sense of community.

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