Senior AI Architect & Engineer — Build & Advise

RBC; Toronto; On-site; CAD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonuses

Stock options

Flexible benefits

Job summary

RBC is seeking a Staff AI Architect/Engineer in Toronto to blend hands-on AI development with enterprise advisory. You will partner with lines of business and RBC’s engineering teams to design, build, and scale AI solutions that deliver real value.

In this role, you’ll drive AI standardization, create reusable patterns and reference architectures, and contribute hands-on engineering when needed. A strong curiosity for AI and ability to translate complex problems into practical designs is

Responsibilities

• Blend building and advising. Depending on the engagement, provide anything from high‑level solution architecture guidance to direct, hands‑on engineering support, meeting teams wherever they are on their delivery journey.
• Partner closely with engineering teams and lines of business to design and deliver scalable, secure and maintainable AI systems, ensuring solutions are built on the right platforms and patterns, fit for purpose, aligned to our AI technology strategy, and practically implementable and maintainable in production, with reusability of capabilities as a key focus.
• Translate business and technical problems into implementable solution designs, then contribute hands‑on development to help bring those designs to life.
• Drive enterprise AI standardization. Contribute to AI standards, patterns and reference architectures so that AI solutions across the bank are consistent, reusable, well‑governed and easily consumable, even as the underlying platforms rapidly evolve.
• Help establish an Architecture mindset by partnering with AI engineering teams to capture and review their designs and provide architectural guidance. Research technologies and work with vendors/partners to evaluate them.
• Build tools, Agents and MCPs to support and automate our architecture practice. Drive an 'as code' mindset.

Skills

AI Agents

AI Frameworks

AI Governance

AI Ops

AI Platforms

AI Programming

Applications Architecture

Artificial Intelligence

Critical Thinking

Data Architecture Development

Decision Making

Group Problem Solving

Information Technology Consulting

IT Architecture

Machine Learning (ML)

Python (Programming Language)

Secure AI

Target Architecture

Job description

RBC is seeking a Staff AI Architect/Engineer in Toronto to blend hands-on AI development with enterprise advisory. You will partner with lines of business and RBC’s engineering teams to design, build, and scale AI solutions that deliver real value.

In this role, you’ll drive AI standardization, create reusable patterns and reference architectures, and contribute hands-on engineering when needed. A strong curiosity for AI and ability to translate complex problems into practical designs is