Senior Mechanical Designer/Engineer - Hybrid

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Kitchener

Hybrid

CAD 140,000 - 210,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

MCAP is seeking an experienced IT leader to drive strategy and execution for AI-enabled software delivery. You will partner with engineering, architecture, security, and delivery teams to design, prove, implement, and scale AI-enabled capabilities that improve delivery speed, quality, and operational efficiency.

This hands-on role bridges strategy and execution and requires deep software engineering expertise and change leadership.

Qualifications

10+ years IT experience with 5+ years in a leadership role
Experience building or integrating coding agents and AI-enabled engineering tools
Familiarity with LLMs, AI infrastructure and governance
Strong hands-on software engineering background with cloud-native patterns
Experience measuring developer productivity or AI adoption outcomes
Knowledge of secure software development, secrets management and data protection
Ability to balance risk, cost and benefit
Excellent communication and leadership skills
Experience mentoring and coaching others
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Responsibilities

Provide input to 1-3 year IT strategic plans across Enterprise and Business Units
Ensure applications meet business unit expectations
Lead AI-enabled modernization across the delivery lifecycle
Define and implement AI-assisted development standards and patterns
Manage budgets and resource allocation for IT initiatives
Partner with architecture, security and delivery teams to design scalable solutions
Drive governance, risk management and compliance for IT initiatives
Mentor and develop engineering teams and foster a culture of continuous improvement

Skills

IT leadership

AI development

Cloud-native

Software engineering

Project management

Security & compliance

Stakeholder management

Mentoring

Change leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

LLMs

AI tooling

Agent frameworks

Developer copilots

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Strategy and Planning

Participates and provides input in the creation of 1 to 3 year IT strategic plans (Enterprise and
Business Unit specific)
Ensures applications meets business unit expectations
Facilitates and monitors the Application Architectural Decisions - 1 to 5 years
Fosters strong working relationships within the various internal IT teams and Business unit teams to understand future direction of initiatives.
Partners with the Line of Business in order to deliver Business Systems Applications that meet current and future business needs
Accountable for full life cycle of IT delivery for the Business Unit projects
Responsible for timely, on budget delivery of IT components of projects (major and tactical) as per the priorities set by the LOB and/or Resource Allocation Committee
Liaise with Architecture and Infrastructure teams to deploy and maintain solutions
Manages business units requests, that are approved and prioritized projects

Acquisition and Deployment

Direct research on emerging application development software products, languages, and standards in support of procurement and development efforts, including LLMs, agent frameworks, coding agents, and developer copilots.
Lead the evaluation and selection of AI development tools and platforms, including build-versus-buy decisions, model evaluation, and partnerships with external AI providers.
Performs detailed technical design of proposed solutions.
Evaluates relevant risks and determines mitigation strategies.
Identify requirements and manage the procurement process and vendor selection for new technologies.

Operational Management

Champion the company’s Vision, Mission and Values as set out in the Strategic Plan both internally and externally within the industry.
Recruit and develop the right people that believe in and reflect in their behavior MCAP’s Values and culture.
Establish, monitor and communicate performance standards to direct reports reinforcing individual results, work quality, continuous improvement, teamwork and achievement of MCAP’s objectives.
Educate, coach and counsel staff to ensure they are empowered to effectively handle their roles in a confident and professional manner.
Establish and maintain an effective system of communication throughout the business unit.
Ensure a continuous improvement culture is established and encouraged.
Assist in the definition of Corporate Guiding Principles, Architectural Standards and Design and the approved Solution Delivery Toolkit, incorporating AI-assisted development standards and patterns.
Assist with the strategic advancement of IT Methodologies
Assist with the selection of MCAP’s Solution Delivery Toolkit
Determine, define and support the metrics and measures required to ensure the success of MCAP IT overall
Work with LOB management to set and manage the Information Technology budget for the Business Unit
Ensure compliance with standards, procedures and methodologies and work with auditors to assess same
Capture, track and report IT Measures and Metrics
Work with Project Budgets and System Budgets
Signing Authority (based on authority matrix)

What You Bring To The Team

10+ years of IT experience, including 5+ years in an IT leadership role.
Experience building or integrating coding agents, developer copilots, workflow automation agents, or AI-enabled engineering tools.
Familiarity with LLMs, AI infrastructure, prompt engineering, agent frameworks, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, model evaluation, and AI governance practices.
Strong hands-on engineering background with modern application development, APIs, cloud-native patterns, CI/CD, automated testing, secure coding, and production support.
Experience defining and measuring developer-productivity or AI-adoption outcomes, with the judgment to handle the nuance of measuring engineering impact.
Strong understanding of secure software development, vulnerability detection, secrets management, data protection, and compliance considerations.
Ability to balance risk, cost, and benefit
Ability to work in a fast paced environment with a high degree of change and competing priorities
Strong oral, written and presentation skills
Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to interface with all levels within the organization.
Strong problem-solving and conflict resolution skills
Excellent planning and project management skills
Demonstrated leadership experience mentoring and coaching others
Ability to multi-task and prioritize tasks across multiple projects
Excellent attention to detail and results oriented
Working knowledge of cloud-native development practices and design patterns using private or public cloud providers
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

This position will play a key role in advancing our AIjourney by driving modernization and efficiency across the delivery lifecycle. This role is focused on helping engineering teams apply AI in practical, measurable ways to improve delivery speed, enhance quality, and reduce operational overhead across development and operational workflows.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role that bridges strategy and execution. You will partner closely with engineering, architecture, security, and delivery teams to design, prove, implement, and scale AI-enabled capabilities that strengthen software delivery outcomes. While the primary focus is on advancing software engineering practices and AI-assisted development, the role will also support broader AI adoption across the organization where it aligns to delivery and operational impact.

The successful candidate combines deep software engineering expertise, hands-on experience applying AI technologies to real-world engineering challenges, strong delivery discipline, and practical change leadership. You will help teams adopt AI responsibly by developing reusable playbooks, implementation patterns, and guardrails, along with validation approaches and human-in-the-loop workflows to ensure AI-enabled solutions are secure, compliant, high-quality, and maintainable, aligned with MCAP’s vision, mission, objectives, and values.

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