# AI Architecture Leader

**Company**: Royal Bank of Canada (RBC)
**Location**: Toronto, Ontario
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

This leader sets one standard way to build, secure and run AI across RBC Technology & Operations. They own the reference architecture for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), AI agents, model access and AI-native software delivery (AI-DLC).

Responsibilities:

- Define the enterprise AI reference architecture and approved patterns.

- Converge multiple RAG solutions onto one shared platform.

- Design the sandbox standard for every agentic workload.

- Own the harness architecture from spec to release.

- Treat skills like code: owned, versioned, regression-tested with evals and retired when stale.

- Route work across frontier and open-weight models by cost, risk and jurisdiction.

- Partner with Internal Audit, Model Risk and Cyber to define human-oversight tiers.

- Chair AI architecture review, keep decision records and manage exceptions.

Requirements:

- 15+ years in architecture or engineering, including 5+ years leading architects or engineers at enterprise scale.

- Hands-on depth in LLM systems: RAG, agent frameworks, MCP, evaluation and inference serving on cloud and on-premises GPUs.

- Security architecture for AI, including the OWASP Top 10 for LLM applications, sandboxing and identity for non-human actors.

- Strong DevSecOps and SDLC background.

- Experience in a regulated industry, ideally financial services under OSFI.

Benefits:

- Comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits.

- Competitive compensation.

- Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities.

- Ability to make a difference and lasting impact.

- Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team.

## Skills

### Required
- Big Data Management
- Data Modeling
- Data Science
- Decision Making
- Deep Learning
- Machine Learning (ML)
- Predictive Analytics
- Programming Languages
- Relationship Building

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