Sr. AI. Forward Deployment Engineer

CGI Njoyn; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

CGI is seeking a Sr. AI Forward Deployment Engineer to help banking and financial services clients move from AI experimentation to scalable enterprise adoption.

The role combines strategy, engineering, solution architecture, prototyping, and executive advisory. You will work with business and technology leaders to define AI transformation priorities, develop differentiated viewpoints, and translate emerging capabilities into practical solutions and roadmaps.

Responsibilities

• Represent CGI as a senior AI practitioner in client engagements, workshops, demos, and executive conversations.
• Develop Points of View, whitepapers, executive narratives on Generative AI, Agentic AI, Responsible AI, and AI enabled modernization in banking.
• Monitor advances in large language models, multimodal AI, autonomous agents, AI platforms, and assess their potential impact on banking operations and business models.
• Work directly with client business and technology leaders to identify where AI can create meaningful operational, financial, customer, software delivery, or mission impact.

Job description

Job order - J0826-0182 - Permanent Full Time

Title Sr. AI. Forward Deployment Engineer

Category Analytics and Emerging Digital Technologies

City Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Job Description

Sr. AI. Forward Deployment Engineer

Position Description

This role will require someone at our client site 5 days a week in Pittsburgh, PA, Cleveland, OH, or Dallas, TX.

For this role on this particular client engagement, employer sponsorship of immigration related visa and/or green card status as part of the PERM process will not be available.

CGI is seeking a Sr. AI Forward Deployment Engineer to help banking and financial services clients move from AI experimentation to secure, scalable, and measurable enterprise adoption. This senior, client facing role combines Generative AI strategy, AI native software engineering, solution architecture, hands on prototyping, transformation consulting, and executive advisory. Assist in the translation of emerging GenAI capabilities and market trends into practical banking use cases, and present compelling recommendations to senior client executives, including CXO, EVP, and SVP stakeholders.

This role requires a strong combination of technical expertise, banking industry knowledge, strategic thinking, and executive level communication skills. The successful candidate will work with business and technology leaders to define AI transformation priorities, develop differentiated Points of View, identify high value GenAI and Agentic AI opportunities, and translate emerging capabilities into practical solutions and implementation roadmaps. The role requires the ability to operate across strategy, architecture, engineering, governance, adoption, and business value realization. The ideal candidate will influence key client decisions, identify high value AI opportunities, and help drive the adoption of GenAI enabled solutions across the banking enterprise.

Duties and Responsibilities:

1.GenAI Transformation Strategy, Innovation, and Engineering Leadership

• Represent CGI as a senior AI practitioner in client engagements, workshops, demos, and executive conversations.
• Develop compelling Points of View, whitepapers, executive narratives, and thought leadership content on Generative AI, Agentic AI, Responsible AI, and AI enabled modernization in banking.
• Monitor advances in large language models, multimodal AI, autonomous agents, AI platforms, and related technologies, and assess their potential impact on banking operations and business models.
• Work directly with client business and technology leaders to identify where AI can create meaningful operational, financial, customer, software delivery, or mission impact.