Lead Agentic AI Engineer

HOOPP (Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan); Toronto; On-site; CAD 98,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension plan

Company-paid health & dental benefits

Learning & development programs

Wellness programs

Equity, diversity & inclusion

Job summary

HOOPP’s Information Technology teams deliver innovative technology solutions to help build a stronger financial future for the healthcare community.

As a Lead Agentic AI Engineer, you will work directly with engineers, architects, security, governance, and business partners to find high-valued development problems and reimagine them using AI and emerging technologies to help our IT teams deliver on the pension promise.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software development or related technical field experience.
• AI-first mindset with ability to reimagine processes using AI and automation.
• Strong problem solving in ambiguous environments and cross-functional collaboration.
• Business curiosity and product thinking to translate needs into AI-enabled capabilities.
• Hands-on engineering depth across Python, C#, JavaScript, TypeScript and cloud platforms (Azure, AWS) with modern practices (CI/CD, DevOps, IaC).
• Experience building AI-native applications, LLMs, agentic architectures, and production workflows.
• Commitment to responsible AI, security, governance, privacy, and cost optimization.
• Ability to influence across business, technology, data, security, and risk teams.

Responsibilities

• Partner with IT and business leaders to uncover opportunities and deliver AI-enabled solutions with measurable value.
• Shape future-state AI architecture by translating challenges into scalable, reusable capabilities.
• Design and build AI agents, intelligent workflows, APIs, integrations, and reusable platform services.
• Deliver MVPs and evolve to secure, scalable production solutions with monitoring and continuous improvement.
• Evaluate and securely adopt emerging AI technologies across Azure and AWS.
• Create architecture blueprints, data flows, and governance artifacts for secure delivery.
• Lead solution delivery, managing priorities, risks, dependencies, and stakeholder adoption.
• Translate lessons into standards and coach teams on responsible AI adoption and secure development.

Skills

Python

C#

JavaScript

TypeScript

CI/CD

DevOps

GitHub

Infrastructure as Code

Azure

AWS

Tools

Azure

AWS

GitHub

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Why you’ll love working here:

• high-performance, people-focused culture
• our commitment that equity, diversity, and inclusion are fundamental to our work environment and business success, which helps employees feel valued and empowered to be their authentic selves
• learning and development initiatives, including workshops, Speaker Series events and access to LinkedIn Learning, that support employees’ career growth
• membership in HOOPP’s world class defined benefit pensionplan, which can serve as an important part of your retirement security
• competitive, 100% company-paid extended health and dental benefits for permanent employees, including coverage supporting our team’s diversity and mental health (e.g., gender affirmation, fertility and drug treatment, psychological support benefits of $2,500 per year, parental leave top-up, and a health spending account).
• optional post-retirement health and dental benefits subsidized at 50%
• yoga classes, meditation workshops, nutritional consultations, and wellness seminars
• the opportunity to make a difference and help take care of those who care for us, byproviding a financially secure retirement for Ontario healthcare workers

Job Summary

HOOPP’sInformation Technology teams deliver innovative technology solutions to help build a stronger financial future for the healthcare community. As a Lead Agentic AI Engineer, you willworkdirectly with engineers, architects, security, governance,and business partners to findhigh-valuedevelopment problems andreimagine them using AI andemerging technologies to help our IT teams deliver on the pension promise.

Our IT Innovation & Enablement team helps teams across IT adopt emerging AI technologiessecurely,practicallyandat scale. As a Lead Agentic AI Engineer, reporting totheProgram Lead, Innovation Enablement, you will be accountable fordevelopingsystems that are secure,reliable, reusable, and usefulacross IT. You willown initiatives endto endfrom discovery and architecture through approval, delivery, rollout, iteration, and operational handoff.

This is not an AI researchrole,andwearenot looking tohire just advisors; thisisahands-ontechnical role.

We cultivate a culture that emphasizes innovation, collaboration, practicality, and the courage to challenge the status quo. This role is well suited to someone who combines technical depth with curiosity, sound judgment, product thinking, systems thinking, and a willingness totestnew ideas. You will look beyond immediate symptoms,identifyunderlying needs, and develop solutions that are secure, sustainable, and valuable in delivering the pension promise. Success in this role requires the ability to navigate ambiguity, ask thoughtful questions, and turn emerging technologies into practical solutions that deliver measurable business impact.

Whatyou willdo:

• Partner with IT and business leaders to uncover opportunities, challenge conventional thinking, and reimagine how work gets done through AI-enabled solutions that deliver measurable business value.
• Shape the future-state architecture of AI solutions by translating complex business challenges into scalable, practical, and reusable technology capabilities.
• Design and build AI agents, intelligent workflows, APIs, integrations, and reusable platform services that enable scalable business capabilities.
• Rapidly deliver MVPs and evolve them into secure, scalable production solutions through monitoring, evaluation, optimization, automated delivery practices, and continuous improvement.
• Evaluate, recommend, and securely adopt emerging AI technologies, platforms, and developer tools across cloud environments (Azure and AWS) to advance organizational capabilities.
• Create architecture blueprints, data flows, technical documentation, and governance artifacts that support secure, compliant, and effective delivery.
• Lead solution delivery by managing priorities, risks, dependencies, stakeholder engagement, adoption, and operational readiness while fostering trusted partnerships.
• Translate lessons learned into reusable standards, training, architecture patterns, and continuous improvements to HOOPP’s AI-enabled software development practices, while coaching teams on responsible AI adoption and secure development practices.

Whatyou will bring:

• 7+ years of experience in software development, solution engineering, or a related technical field, with a proventrack recordof leading complex cross-functional initiatives from concept through adoption and operational readiness.
• An AI-first mindset that challenges conventional approaches,identifiesopportunities to reimagine processes, and leverages AI and automation to create smarter, more effective ways of working.
• Creative and strategic problem-solving abilities that thrive in ambiguity, embrace experimentation, learn quickly from outcomes, and transform complex business challenges into practical, scalable solutions.
• A blend of business curiosity and product thinking, coupled with a genuine interest in understanding how people work, translating business needs into AI-enabled capabilities that drive measurable value and adoption.
• Strong engineeringexpertise, including hands-on experience with Python, C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, or similar languages, and building solutions across cloud platforms such as Azure and AWS using modern development practices including CI/CD, DevOps, GitHub, and infrastructure as code.
• Hands-on experience building and operating AI-native applications and workflows in production, including large language models, agentic architectures, orchestration frameworks, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), APIs, observability, model evaluation, and troubleshooting real-world AI failure modes.
• A commitment to responsible innovation, balancing speed, creativity, and experimentation with sound engineering practices, security, privacy, governance, identity management, cost optimization, and responsible AI principles.
• Success in this role requires strong collaboration and influence, with the ability to communicate effectively across business, technology, data, security, and risk teams, build trusted relationships, and help others confidently adopt new AI-enabled ways of working.
• Experience in startup, consulting, platformenablement,or forward-deployed engineering environments is considered an asset.

The expected annual base salary range for this role is: $98,000 - $138,000 CAD

The actual base salary offered to the successful candidate may vary based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, individual’s expertise and level of experience applicable to the role they are being offered.

This role is eligible to participate in discretionary incentive plan(s), subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable incentive plan text.

This job posting is for a newly created role.

HOOPP may use artificial intelligence tools to assist in screening, assessing and selecting applicants for this position. These tools support our recruitment process but do not replace human judgment and decision-making.