Principal, AI Platform & Agent Governance

ATB Financial; Calgary; Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

ATB Financial seeks a Principal, AI Agent Control & Governance to oversee end-to-end operational accountability for AI tools, frontier models, and autonomous agents. You will bridge AI platform engineering with enterprise risk oversight and collaborate across solution sponsors and control functions.

The role covers AI Operations, platform administration, and agent governance lifecycle management, ensuring audit-ready processes and regulatory alignment with OSFI guidelines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a technical field.
• 5+ years in AI/ML platform administration or enterprise IT operations.
• Experience deploying ML models to production.
• Strong cloud infrastructure experience (GCP/AWS/Azure).
• Familiarity with RBAC, IAM, and security guardrails.

Responsibilities

• Lead deployment and lifecycle management for frontier models and enterprise tools.
• Own RBAC, access controls, and licensing configurations.
• Drive FinOps and cost optimization for AI platforms.
• Maintain SLOs/SLA adherence across platforms and services.
• Establish observability and health monitoring for AI applications.
• Collaborate with security, data, and engineering teams on governance.

Skills

AI platform administration

RBAC & IAM

FinOps & cost optimization

SLA/SLO management

Observability & monitoring

Security guardrails

Cross-functional collaboration

Model governance

HITL controls

Agent architecture

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS/Info Systems/Engineering

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Kubeflow

MLflow

DataRobot

Airflow

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Job description

ATB Financial seeks a Principal, AI Agent Control & Governance to oversee end-to-end operational accountability for AI tools, frontier models, and autonomous agents. You will bridge AI platform engineering with enterprise risk oversight and collaborate across solution sponsors and control functions.

The role covers AI Operations, platform administration, and agent governance lifecycle management, ensuring audit-ready processes and regulatory alignment with OSFI guidelines.