Lead Agentic AI Engineer: AI Platforms & Automation

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

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.