Senior Artificial Intelligence Platform Engineer, AI Platform & Fabrics

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline (Master's an asset).

5+ years of software/platform engineering experience, including hands-on experience building and operating production services .

Experience with production operations (deployments, monitoring, incident response, on-call), ideally in a regulated industry (financial services an asset).

Hands-on depth in at least one of: API/gateway services; policy-as-code/authorization; workload identity/security; observability/telemetry; audit/data platforms.

Solid software-engineering fundamentals: clean, tested, maintainable code; API design; and an understanding of distributed-systems concepts (latency, resilience, availability).

Strong programming skills (Python and/or Go preferred; TypeScript/Java an asset) for building services, APIs, and integrations.

Working proficiency in cloud-native development on AWS and/or Azure : containers/Kubernetes and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation/ARM).

Practical CI/CD, GitOps, and DevSecOps experience; Git-based workflows (Bitbucket/GitHub), Jira, Confluence.

Policy/Authorization: Cedar, OPA/Rego, or comparable authorization systems.

Identity/Security: SPIFFE/SPIRE, mTLS, OAuth/OIDC, token exchange, or federated identity.

Observability/Audit: OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, Dynatrace/Splunk or equivalents, immutable/audit data stores.

Gateway/Guardrails: API gateway usage/development, LLM routing/abstraction, prompt-injection/PII defenses, or AI evaluation.

Registry/Portal: service catalogues, asset registries, lifecycle/onboarding workflows.

Working knowledge of GenAI platform patterns (LLM/AI gateways, RAG, agentic patterns, embeddings, guardrails) sufficient to build supporting infrastructure.

Familiarity with AI/ML tooling (Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, SageMaker, MLflow) and orchestration frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex) an asset.

Awareness of Responsible AI, AI/data governance, privacy, cloud security, and IAM as applied to AI workloads.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (Professional an asset) / ML – Specialty

Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate / Azure Solutions Architect Expert

The above represents BMO Financial Group’s pay range and type.

Salaries will vary based on factors such as location, skills, experience, education, and qualifications for the role, and may include a commission structure. Salaries for part-time roles will be pro-rated based on number of hours regularly worked. For commission roles, the salary listed above represents BMO Financial Group’s expected target for the first year in this position.

BMO Financial Group’s total compensation package will vary based on the pay type of the position and may include performance-based incentives, discretionary bonuses, as well as other perks and rewards. BMO also offers health insurance, tuition reimbursement, accident and life insurance, and retirement savings plans. To view more details of our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.bmo.com/global/en/Total-Rewards

At BMO we are driven by a shared Purpose: Boldly Grow the Good in business and life. It calls on us to create lasting, positive change for our customers, our communities and our people. By working together, innovating and pushing boundaries, we transform lives and businesses, and power economic growth around the world.

As a member of the BMO team you are valued, respected and heard, and you have more ways to grow and make an impact. We strive to help you make an impact from day one – for yourself and our customers. We’ll support you with the tools and resources you need to reach new milestones, as you help our customers reach theirs. From in-depth training and coaching, to manager support and network-building opportunities, we’ll help you gain valuable experience, and broaden your skillset.

To find out more visit us at https://jobs.bmo.com/ca/en .

BMO is committed to an inclusive, equitable and accessible workplace. By learning from each other’s differences, we gain strength through our people and our perspectives. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. To request accommodation, please contact your recruiter.

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