Job Description
Overview
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.
Skills and Requirements
- 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.
- Robust consulting, stakeholder-facing, and communication skills.
- Ability to rapidly prototype and iterate solutions.
- Experience working in Agile environments.
- 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.
We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day.
We are an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters.
Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances.
If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to
[email protected].
📌 Forward Deploy Engineer - AI Solutions (Toronto)
🏢 Insight Global
📍 Toronto