Generative AI Developer

Generative AI Developer

Your Opportunity

We are seeking a GenAI Developer to drive the design, maturation, and enterprise deployment of generative AI and agentic AI systems within Stantec’s Digital

Center of Excellence (DCoE). This role will support a growing portfolio of AI initiatives across the organization, focusing on building scalable, secure, and well-governed solutions, including LLM-powered agents, multi-agent systems,

retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and intelligent automation platforms.

You will work closely with data scientists, engineers, enterprise architects,

and business stakeholders to define architectural patterns, establish technical standards, and guide the implementation of advanced GenAI capabilities. This position plays a critical role in shaping enterprise AI architecture, ensuring solutions are reliable, compliant, and aligned with Stantec’s governance,

security, and responsible AI principles.

Your Key Responsibilities

Architect end-to-end GenAI solutions, including model lifecycle management,

evaluation, deployment, and monitoring.

Partner with ML/AI leads and engineering teams to integrate LLMs, autonomous agents, and GenAI services into existing and new solution pipelines.

Act as a technical advisor and reviewer, supporting architectural decisions,

code reviews, and design trade-offs.

Provide architectural guidance for production deployments using Azure-native services, Databricks, and Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, ensuring solutions align with enterprise standards.

Review and advise on infrastructure approaches, including containerization,

orchestration, and infrastructure-as-code to ensure scalability, security,

and operational readiness.

Collaborate with product owners, engineering, security, and data teams to design solutions that meet functional and non-functional requirements

(performance, reliability, compliance, and cost).

Establish and enforce governance for model usage, prompt and tool management,

safety controls, data handling, and lifecycle management.

Design integrations with enterprise data platforms, knowledge sources, and

APIs, ensuring appropriate access controls and auditability.

Guide implementation teams through design reviews, technical decision-making,

and delivery of best practices.

Document architectural patterns, methodologies, and lessons learned;

contribute to internal knowledge bases and Communities of Practice.

Evaluate emerging GenAI technologies and recommend adoption strategies based on business value and risk.

Stay current with emerging research, tools, and frameworks in Generative AI,

Agentic AI, and multi-agent systems.

At Stantec, we have some of the world’s leading professionals passionate about enabling our business to be its best. Our business teams include finance,

procurement, human resources, information technology, marketing, corporate development, HSSE, real estate, legal, and practice services. We bring diverse backgrounds, skills, and expertise and create a caring culture where everyone can thrive. Through teamwork and collaboration, we’re building a stronger, more resilient Stantec every day.

Pay Transparency: In compliance with pay transparency laws, pay ranges are provided for positions in locations where required. Please note, the final agreed upon compensation is based on individual education, qualifications,

experience, and work location. At Stantec certain roles are bonus eligible. Actual compensation for part-time roles will be pro-rated based on the agreed number of working hours per week.

Benefits Summary: Regular full-time and part-time employees (working at least 20

hours per week) will have access to health, dental, and vision plans, a wellness program, health care spending account, wellness spending account, group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, group tax-free savings account, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D)

insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits,

tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage, and paid time off.

Temporary/casual employees will have access to group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, and group tax-free savings account.

The benefits information listed above may not apply to union positions because benefits for such positions are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements.