Location: Toronto
Hybrid: 2 days a week onsite
Contract: 6 months (high likelihood of extension)
Pay Rate: $80-85 / hour
JOB DESCRIPTION
Insight Global is seeking a Forward Deployment Engineer to design, build, and deploy AI-powered solutions that solve complex business challenges. This role sits at the intersection of software engineering, AI, architecture, and consulting, requiring a hands-on technologist who can rapidly transform business needs into production-ready solutions.
Responsibilities
- Partner with business and technical stakeholders to identify AI use cases and solution opportunities.
- Facilitate discovery workshops and requirements gathering sessions.
- Build proof-of-concepts and production-ready AI applications.
- Develop solutions leveraging LLMs, RAG architectures, agentic workflows, and enterprise AI platforms.
- Create APIs, integrations, and workflow orchestration patterns.
- Partner with architecture teams to ensure compliance with security and governance standards.
- Enable knowledge transfer and promote AI best practices across teams.
REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- 5+ years of software engineering, solution engineering, or AI engineering experience.
- Strong Python development and API integration experience.
- Experience with cloud-native application development and modern software architecture.
- Hands-on experience with GenAI, LLMs, prompt engineering, and RAG.
- Strong consulting, stakeholder-facing, and communication skills.
- Ability to rapidly prototype and iterate solutions.
- Experience working in Agile environments.
NICE TO HAVE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- Azure AI, Azure OpenAI, Copilot Studio, or Microsoft AI ecosystem experience.
- Experience building agentic AI applications and workflows.
- Experience with vector databases, semantic search, and knowledge retrieval.
- Cloud certifications (Azure preferred).
- Financial services experience, with priority to Wealth Management or Insurance Domain
Vacancy: This posting is for a currently vacant role, and the successful candidate will be hired into an existing open position.
*We may use artificial intelligence tools to assist with the screening, assessment, or selection of potential applicants for this position.
