Our client is seeking a Technical Lead to own AI project delivery end to end. You bring a proven track record building systems and are ready to lead others doing the same. This will start as a 12-month contract, 3 days/week in downtown Toronto.

What You'll Do

Intake & Scoping

- Lead intake calls — surface the real problem behind the stated ask

- Scope effort, timeline, and resourcing with the PM based on real build requirements

- Assess feasibility early; say no (or "not yet") when work isn't a fit

- Recommend simpler solutions when AI isn't the right answer

Technical Leadership

- Make key calls: model/framework selection, build vs. buy, technical debt tradeoffs

- Track the AI tooling landscape, favoring production-ready over novel

Delivery Ownership

- Own end-to-end delivery across concurrent projects, accountable for outcomes

- Run delivery cadence with the PM: milestones, risks, dependencies, escalations

- Manage shifting requirements and resulting tradeoffs

Stakeholder Management

- Primary contact for business stakeholders throughout the project

- Proactively manage expectations; surface risks early





- Present progress and tradeoffs to senior, non-technical audiences

- Challenge assumptions and offer alternative approaches

- Work across sponsors, product/ops teams, data platform teams, leadership, and external partners

What We're Looking For

- 8+ years in software/AI-ML engineering, including 3+ years leading technical teams, with substantial hands-on experience prior

- Still hands-on — shipped production systems, can go deep on design

- Experience building LLM applications: agentic workflows, RAG, orchestration, prompt/context engineering, evaluation

- Strong Python and code review skills

- Production experience on cloud AI/data platforms (Azure, AWS, Databricks, or similar)

- Track record owning business-facing projects end to end, including when they slipped

- Robust scoping instincts — can size effort accurately from a short conversation

- Ability to influence senior stakeholders without formal authority

- Comfortable with ambiguity and shifting priorities

📌 Artificial Intelligence Specialist (Toronto)
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