Lead Agentic AI Engineer

RBC; Toronto; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

RBC is seeking an experienced Agent Lead to transform Financial Advisor productivity through agentic AI workflows. You will shape, validate, and scale agent patterns across Wealth Management, partnering with advisors and leadership to drive adoption and measurable outcomes.

This role blends product thinking with hands-on AI work, requiring leadership, vendor coordination, and a strong backend focus using Python-based technologies.

Qualifications

• 8-10 years total engineering experience
• 2-3+ years building agentic or LLM systems
• Experience building and deploying agentic AI solutions

Responsibilities

• Partner with Financial Advisors and stakeholders to identify high-value agentic workflow opportunities
• Lead rapid POC cycles designing multi-agent interactions across vendor, enterprise, and internal agents
• Act as Product Owner for agentic workflows with defined success metrics and iteration based on feedback
• Establish reusable agent design patterns including prompting, orchestration, memory models, tool usage, and escalation paths

Skills

RAG architecture

Python backend

FastAPI

Agent frameworks

Multi-agent systems

Tool integration

Memory models

Event-driven architecture

Product owner

Stakeholder management

Tools

Pydantic

Job description

Job Description

What is the opportunity?

The Agent Lead sits at the forefront of transforming Financial Advisor productivity through agentic AI workflows - bridging business problems with intelligent automation. This is a high-ambiguity, rapid experimentation role where you'll define how vendor agents, enterprise frameworks, and internally developed agents coexist and interoperate within a governed ecosystem. This is not a pure engineering role - it's a product-minded builder role that shapes, validates, and scales agentic patterns reusable across Wealth Management.

What will you do?

• Partner directly with Financial Advisors, field leadership, and business stakeholders to identify high-value agentic workflow opportunities and evaluate when AI is the right solution vs. deterministic automation
• Lead rapid POC development cycles with authority to "fail fast / scale fast," designing multi-agent interactions across vendor agents (CRM/Agentforce), enterprise agents, and native/internal agents
• Act as Product Owner for agentic workflows - owning use case shaping through validated solution patterns, defining success metrics, and driving iteration based on advisor feedback and usage telemetry
• Establish reusable agent design patterns including prompting strategies, orchestration, memory models, tool usage, and escalation paths in collaboration with AI Engineering
• Engage with enterprise stakeholders (Borealis, architecture, and platform teams) to align with approved agentic frameworks, standards, and governance requirements
• Manage and develop Context Engineers/Prompt Engineers, establishing best practices in context design, retrieval strategies, and agent behavior tuning
• Travel (~25%) to branches and field locations to observe advisor workflows, identify friction points, validate usability, and drive adoption of agentic solutions

What do you need to succeed?

Must-have:

• 8-10 years total engineering experience - with 2-3+ years specifically building agentic or LLM systems (not just prototypes)
• Hands-on RAG architecture - chunking tradeoffs, retrieval failures, evaluation
• Built or extended tool integration layers connecting LLM agents to external systems
• Strong Python backend - FastAPI, async, Pydantic, streaming responses
• Proven experience building and deploying agentic AI solutions (multi-agent systems, orchestration frameworks, tool-using agents)
• Strong understanding of agent frameworks, architectures, memory models, tool integration, and event-driven agents
• Demonstrated ability to operate as a builder + product owner hybrid with strong judgment on when to use AI vs. when not to
• Experience designing workflow-driven automation and working across business, engineering, and enterprise governance functions
• Leadership experience managing technical talent and excellent stakeholder engagement skills for "side-of-desk" collaboration

Nice-to-have:

• Experience in Wealth Management or Financial Services, particularly with advisor workflows
• Familiarity with CRM-based agent platforms (Salesforce Agentforce) and event-driven architectures
• Understanding of AI risk, model governance, explainability frameworks, and human-centered design

What's in it for you:

We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.

• A comprehensive Total Rewards Program include competitive compensation and flexible benefits, such as 401(k) program with company-matching contributions, health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance, and paid-time off.
• Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities.
• Ability to make a difference and lasting impact.
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team.
• Opportunities to do challenging work.
• Opportunities to build close relationships with clients.

Job Skills

Actuarial Modeling, Big Data Management, Commercial Acumen, Data Mining, Data Science, Decision Making, Machine Learning (ML), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Predictive Analytics, Python (Programming Language)

Additional Job Details

• Address: RBC CENTRE, 155 WELLINGTON ST W:TORONTO
• City: Toronto
• Country: Canada
• Work hours/week: 37.5
• Employment Type: Full time
• Platform: WEALTH MANAGEMENT
• Job Type: Regular
• Pay Type: Salaried
• Posted Date: 2026-09-17
• Application Deadline: 2026-10-09
• Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

Our Employment Opportunities

At RBC, we are guided by living shared values of Client First, Integrity, Collaboration, Respect and Excellence and winning together as One RBC. We believe an inclusive workplace that has diverse perspectives is core to our continued growth as one of the largest and most successful banks in the world. Maintaining a workplace where our employees feel supported to perform at their best, effectively collaborate, drive innovation, and grow professionally helps to bring our Purpose to life and create value for our clients and communities. RBC strives to deliver this through policies and programs intended to foster a workplace based on respect, belonging and opportunity for all.