Application developer Jobs in Ottawa, ON

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Your Opportunity

The Developer Advocate will serve as a critical bridge between BDO Canada’s AI Studio and Service Line Labs, ensuring seamless collaboration, technical enablement, and advocacy for AI adoption across the firm. This is a new role in the team and champions developer experience, promotes responsible AI practices, and accelerates the creation of AI agents that enhance workflows and client value. This role offers a hybrid work schedule, combining remote flexibility with in-office collaboration. Periodic travel may be required as part of the position.

To be successful, you will focus on key areas such as:

Advocacy & Enablement

• Act as the primary liaison between AI Studio and Service Line Labs to ensure alignment on standards, governance, and technical best practices.

• Promote internal awareness of AI tools, frameworks, and development environments (e.g., Copilot Studio) through workshops, demos, and office hours.

• Build and nurture a community of AI practitioners and citizen developers across service lines.

Technical Collaboration

• Partner with IT to integrate AI development tools securely and efficiently into BDO Canada’s infrastructure, ensuring compliance with identity, access, and runtime governance.

• Support Labs in prototyping and transitioning AI solutions from sandbox to production, following BDO Canada’s governance and quality assurance protocols.

• Contribute to reusable components and patterns for AI agent development, ensuring scalability and interoperability across service lines.

Training & Education

• Design and deliver training programs for practitioners on AI literacy, prompt engineering, and agent-building fundamentals.

• Facilitate hackathons and hands-on sessions to accelerate learning and adoption of AI tools.

• Collaborate with Learning & Development to embed AI capability pathways into firm-wide learning programs.

AI Agent Development Support

• Guide service lines in identifying high-value workflows for AI enablement and assist in configuring or building agents within a governed environment.

• Provide technical mentorship to practitioners working on Tier 1 and Tier 2 agents, ensuring adherence to BDO’s Responsible AI framework.

• Monitor and report on adoption metrics, agent performance, and ROI to inform continuous improvement.

How do we define success for your role?

• You demonstrate BDO Canada's core values through all aspects of your work: Integrity, Respect and Collaboration

• You understand your client’s industry, challenges, and opportunities; clients describe you as positive, professional, and delivering high-quality work

• You identify, recommend, and are focused on effective service delivery to your clients

• You share in an inclusive and engaging work environment that develops, retains & attracts talent

• You actively participate in the adoption of digital tools and strategies to drive an innovative workplace

• You grow your expertise through learning and professional development

Your Education & Experience

• Minimum of 5-6 years of experience in software development, AI/ML concepts and development, and API integration.

• Minimum of 3 -4 years of experience in developer advocacy, technical evangelism, or community building.

• Familiarity with enterprise AI platforms (e.g., Microsoft Copilot Studio) and governance principles.

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts for non-technical audiences.

• Passion for enabling innovation responsibly within a professional services context.

The expected range of compensation for this role is $93,000 - $141,000 annually.