Strategic AI Cloud Platform Architect

BMO U.S.; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Tuition reimbursement

Accident and life insurance

Retirement savings plans

Job summary

BMO Financial Group seeks a Principal AI & Cloud Engineer to design, build, and scale cloud-native AI solutions across the bank. You will set engineering standards, mentor engineers, and partner with teams to deliver resilient, cost-efficient AI at enterprise scale.

You will advance BMO's Digital First strategy by defining reference architectures for AI on cloud, enabling secure APIs, and driving platform roadmaps to improve delivery speed and governance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's/Master's/PhD in CS, Engineering, or related field.
• 7+ years building large-scale distributed cloud infrastructure.
• 5+ years hands-on with Azure/AWS.
• Proven experience with AI/ML infra: GPU clusters, Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability.
• Strong in IaC (Terraform/Bicep), Kubernetes, networking, security.
• Familiarity with MLOps/LLMOps infra: model serving, feature stores, vector DBs.
• Programming in Python (infra automation) and one of Go/TypeScript for tooling.
• Understanding of frontend/backend integration for AI services.

Responsibilities

• Lead infrastructure discovery and solution design with stakeholders.
• Operate platforms with SRE principles: error budgets, incident response, chaos testing.
• Mentor engineers; create reusable IaC modules, templates, and golden paths.
• Define reference and production-grade AI/GenAI on cloud and drive platform roadmaps.

Skills

Kubernetes

Terraform/Bicep

CI/CD

Observability

Python (infra automation)

Go

TypeScript

Service mesh

Frontend/backend integration

Education

Bachelor's/Master's/PhD in CS, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Azure

AWS

FAISS

Milvus

Pinecone

pgvector

TensorRT-LLM

KServe

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

BMO Financial Group seeks a Principal AI & Cloud Engineer to design, build, and scale cloud-native AI solutions across the bank. You will set engineering standards, mentor engineers, and partner with teams to deliver resilient, cost-efficient AI at enterprise scale.

You will advance BMO's Digital First strategy by defining reference architectures for AI on cloud, enabling secure APIs, and driving platform roadmaps to improve delivery speed and governance.