Enterprise AI Architect: Scale & Governance Leader

Banque Nationale du Canada; Montreal (administrative region); On-site; CAD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellness program

Employee Share Ownership Plan

Employee and family assistance program

Preferential banking services

Involvement in community initiatives

Virtual sleep clinic

Job summary

National Bank of Canada is seeking a Senior Chief AI Architect to shape the enterprise AI architecture strategy and reference architectures across the bank. You will drive governance, security-by-design, and scalable patterns to enable AI adoption at scale.

You will influence executives, lead multidisciplinary teams, and balance delivery speed with risk in a fast-moving, regulated environment. Montreal-based role with close collaboration across technology and business functions.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 15 years of experience in enterprise or solution architecture with hands-on AI.
• Deep expertise in AI technologies, including ML, generative AI, agent-based systems.
• Strong understanding of AI governance, regulatory constraints, and risk management.
• Experience designing AI reference architectures and scalable architectural patterns.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the Bank’s enterprise AI architecture strategy, roadmap, and reference architectures.
• Establish pragmatic AI principles, guardrails, and reusable patterns across the organization.
• Lead the architectural vision for generative and agentic AI at enterprise scale.
• Advise executives on AI-related investments, platform choices, adoption sequencing, and trade-offs.
• Oversee AI risk management and architectural escalation for high-risk initiatives.

Skills

Enterprise AI

AI governance

Strategic architecture

Leadership

Generative AI

LLMOps

Cloud platforms

Risk management

Executive influence

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

LLMOps tooling

Security by design

Job description

National Bank of Canada is seeking a Senior Chief AI Architect to shape the enterprise AI architecture strategy and reference architectures across the bank. You will drive governance, security-by-design, and scalable patterns to enable AI adoption at scale.

You will influence executives, lead multidisciplinary teams, and balance delivery speed with risk in a fast-moving, regulated environment. Montreal-based role with close collaboration across technology and business functions.