Director AI Engineering

Director AI Engineering

Position Description
CGI is Canada's largest independent information technology services firm, and after 50 years, we continue to grow. We are building a new AI engineering capability within our Toronto Financial Services (TFS) business unit, serving clients across Banking, Insurance, and Wealth Management.

We are looking for a Director, Consulting Services to build and lead this new capability. This is a people leadership role with accountability for the team, delivery, and client relationships. The AI engineering team will report to this role, including Forward Deployed Engineer / AI Co-op, Agentic AI Engineers, Founding AI Engineers, and the Distinguished AI Engineer.

This is a hands-on leadership role. You will stay close to the work by building demos, helping shape complex solutions, and setting technical direction alongside the team. As a player-coach, you will develop people, build trusted client relationships, grow the capability, and remain actively engaged in how solutions are designed and built.

This role is hybrid and requires you to work from our downtown Toronto office and/or client office a minimum of two days per week, subject to change at any time.

Your future duties and responsibilities
Build, grow, and lead the AI engineering team, including hiring, coaching, career development, and performance management.
Own delivery across client engagements, with accountability for timelines, quality, and business value.
Build and maintain senior client relationships, develop trusted partnerships, grow accounts, and identify new opportunities.
Remain hands-on by building demos and proofs of concept and contributing to complex solutions.
Set technical direction and engineering standards for AI solutions in collaboration with the Distinguished AI Engineer.
Shape AI roadmaps and business cases in collaboration with CGI and client leadership.
Own estimates, budgets, and delivery plans for the team's work.
Maintain high standards for quality, security, and reliability across delivered solutions.
Build an inclusive, collaborative team culture that supports continuous learning and professional growth.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role
12+ years of experience in software delivery or consulting, including experience leading teams.
Demonstrated people leadership experience building and leading engineering or delivery teams, including hiring, coaching, career development, and performance management.
Strong, current hands-on technical skills, with the ability to build demos and complex full-stack solutions using Java and Node.js and AI coding tools such as Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Antigravity, or Claude Code.
Strong knowledge of building AI and agent-based products, including prompt, context, harness, and loop engineering.
Demonstrated experience owning client delivery, including estimates, budgets, plans, timelines, and quality.
Experience developing trusted relationships with senior client leaders and identifying opportunities to grow accounts.
Strong technical understanding of APIs, databases including PostgreSQL and MongoDB, and cloud technologies to effectively guide engineering teams.
Ability to connect AI initiatives to defined business outcomes and value.
Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to explain AI concepts clearly to executives, clients, and engineering teams.
Assets
Experience in Banking, Insurance, or Wealth Management.
Experience establishing and growing a new practice or capability.
Consulting or professional services experience.
Public contributions to the AI community through speaking engagements, published writing, or open-source work.
Relevant cloud or delivery certifications, including Azure, AWS, or GCP.

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**CGI is providing a reasonable estimate of the pay range for this role. The determination of this range includes factors such as skill set level, geographic market, experience and training, and licenses and certifications. Compensation decisions depend on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $145,000–$195,000. This role is an existing vacancy.**

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Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you’ll reach your full potential because…

You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That’s why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company’s strategy and direction.

Your work creates value. You’ll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.

You’ll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.

At CGI, we value the strength that diversity brings and are committed to fostering a workplace where everyone belongs. We collaborate with our clients to build more inclusive communities and empower all CGI partners to thrive. As an equal-opportunity employer, being able to perform your best during the recruitment process is important to us. If you require an accommodation, please inform your recruiter.

That same commitment to fairness extends to how we use technology. To support our recruitment team, AI tools may be used to help assess applications though they never replace human judgement. All hiring decisions remain entirely in the hands of our recruitment professionals.

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