AI Solutions Architect

Incognito Software Systems Inc; Alberta; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Volaris Group seeks a senior AI Solutions Architect to define technical architecture and standards enabling portfolio-wide AI adoption. You will work with CEOs, product leaders, and engineering teams to design scalable AI solutions that accelerate product innovation and automate processes while ensuring security and maintainability.

As a senior leader, you will mentor AI Champions, drive architecture reviews, and help codify reusable patterns, prompts, and playbooks.

Qualifications

• Senior technical leader with enterprise software/solution architecture experience.
• Hands-on AI/ML delivery and automation tooling experience.
• Experience embedding AI components into engineering workflows and SaaS products.
• Ability to design reusable frameworks and set architecture standards and governance.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain Portfolio AI Reference Architecture and reusable, secure solution patterns.
• Evaluate enterprise AI platforms and build reference implementations.
• Set enterprise standards for AI stack including model evaluation, testing, observability, and versioning.
• Embed AI coding agents, automated code review, and testing automation across the SDLC.
• Partner with AI Pods to translate business problems into practical architectures and lead delivery.
• Embed security, privacy, governance, and Responsible AI into every solution.
• Mentor teams and deliver architecture reviews and technical workshops.
• Build reusable assets for the AI Center of Excellence (prompt libraries, reference architectures, templates).
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies and shape the portfolio AI roadmap.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

AI/ML delivery

Cloud-native architectures

Mentoring & leadership

Communication with stakeholders

Responsible AI governance

Problem solving

Tools

Azure

AWS

Google Cloud

LangChain

Semantic Kernel

Job description

Job Summary

About Us The Portfolio is a diverse collection of software businesses operating across multiple vertical markets within the Volaris Group, a subsidiary of Constellation Software Inc. (CSI). Each business operates independently while benefiting from a shared operating model focused on long-term value creation, operational excellence, and sustainable growth. Artificial Intelligence is a strategic priority across the portfolio—not simply to deploy AI tools, but to transform how our businesses operate, build products, engage customers, and create measurable commercial value.

Our Portfolio AI Transformation Strategy establishes a common AI Operating System built on:

• Shared assets and decentralized execution
• Executive-led AI transformation
• Responsible AI governance

The Role

As AI Solutions Architect, you will partner to define the technical architecture, standards, and reusable solution patterns that enable our businesses to adopt and operationalize AI. This is a senior technical leadership role focused on enterprise AI architecture rather than traditional software development. Working alongside Business CEOs, Product Leaders, engineering teams, AI Champions, and AI Pods, you will design scalable AI solutions that accelerate product innovation, automate business processes, and improve customer outcomes while keeping them secure, maintainable, and aligned with enterprise architecture principles. You will support AI Work Pods with architectural guidance, technical coaching, and reusable frameworks, while each business retains ownership of its own implementation.

Key Relationships

Head of Artificial Intelligence: Reporting to and escalation.

AI Transformation Lead: Matrix to align technical architecture with transformation delivery.

Business CEOs, Product Leaders, AI Champions, and AI Pods across participating businesses.

Product Experts, engineering teams, and Security, Infrastructure, and Engineering functions, on delivery, enterprise standards, and Responsible AI.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and maintain best practices for the Portfolio AI Reference Architecture, its guiding principles, and reusable, secure solution patterns that align with existing software platforms and technology strategies.
• Evaluate and recommend enterprise AI platforms/technologies and build reference implementations using leading AI tools.
• Set enterprise standards and engineering best practices across the AI stack, spanning model evaluation, testing and validation, observability, performance monitoring, and version management.
• Embed AI coding agents, automated code review, and testing automation across the software development lifecycle, in line with the AI-First Engineering playbook.
• Partner with AI Pods to translate business problems into practical, commercially viable solution architectures, and lead Product Experts and engineering teams through solution discovery, delivery, and implementation.
• Embed security, privacy, auditability, governance, and Responsible AI principles into every solution, supporting compliance with regulatory and customer requirements.
• Mentor engineering teams, AI Champions, and AI Pods, and deliver technical workshops and architecture reviews.
• Build reusable assets for the AI Center of Excellence such as prompt libraries, reference architectures, templates, and playbooks to allow the growth of a portfolio-wide community of technical practice.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies, run proof-of-concept initiatives, and support the Head of AI in shaping the portfolio AI technology roadmap and investment priorities, balancing innovation with architectural discipline.
• Where technical standards and commercial delivery timelines conflict, elevate to the Head of AI as the final decision‑maker.
• Success in the First 12 Months: Portfolio AI Reference Architecture established and adopted.
• Reusable AI components developed and adopted across multiple businesses, reducing duplicated development.
• A reference RAG or agentic pattern documented and piloted in production by at least one AI Pod within90 days.

Skills & Experience

We’re looking for a senior technical leader who brings:

• Experience in enterprise software architecture, solution architecture, software engineering, or cloud platform leadership.
• Hands‑on experience delivering AI, machine learning, or intelligent automation solutions.
• Experience embedding AI coding agents and automated testing/code‑review tools into engineering workflows.
• A strong background designing enterprise, cloud‑native, and API‑first architectures and integrating AI into SaaS products, plus a track record developing reusable frameworks and defining architecture standards and governance.
• The judgment to balance innovation with operational stability, and the influence to shape architectural decisions across multiple businesses.
• Strong technical leadership, mentoring, and systems‑thinking skills, with the ability to communicate complex concepts to non‑technical stakeholders.
• Pragmatic, collaborative, and detail‑oriented, with a strong engineering mindset and a bias toward practical delivery.
• Curious about emerging AI and continuously learning, calm under pressure, and committed to responsible AI.

Technical Expertise

Must‑have

• Generative AI Large Language Models (LLMs)
• Agentic AI Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG)
• AI orchestration frameworks
• Prompt engineering
• Model evaluation
• AI observability
• AI security
• Vector databases

Nice‑to‑have

• Enterprise integration patterns
• Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud)
• Microsoft Copilot ecosystem
• OpenAI and Anthropic APIs
• Experience with technologies such as Semantic Kernel, LangChain, AutoGen, Model Context Protocol (MCP), or similar AI orchestration frameworks will be highly regarded.

Worker Type: Regular Number of Openings Available:1

At Volaris Group we are all about finding the right people for the right role and allowing them the opportunity to directly contribute to the successes of our organization. Our employees are experts in their field, passionate about what they do and always looking for new and better ways to solve our industry's problems. Our staff come from a wide range of cultural, educational and geographic backgrounds and are able to work in a dynamic entrepreneurial environment that values individual perspectives. We offer competitive compensation, a comprehensive benefits package and the chance to learn from the best in the business.

Volaris Group is an equal opportunity employer, we recruit, hire, train, promote and provide all other privileges of employment to qualified people without regard to age, race, color, creed, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, disability, marital status, veteran status, citizenship status, ethnicity, familial status, religion, sexual orientation or any other classification for which discrimination is prohibited. Volaris Group is part of a CSI Group of Companies