Software architect Jobs in Waterloo, ON

Job Description

Job Description

Description

Your role at GEI.

The AI Architect is responsible for designing and leading AI-based solutions and services to select the optimal architecture for GEI’s priority digital and AI initiatives. This role owns the end-to-end solution architecture for AI and agent-based systems, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, and cost-effective while aligned with GEI governance, cloud, and data standards.

The AI Architect translates business needs into practical AI solution designs across data, models, applications, and AI extensibility layers. This role plays a hands-on leadership role in active AI Solutions Factory use cases, guiding architectural decisions, identifying technical and operational risks, and defining mitigation strategies to ensure solutions are production-ready and sustainable.

Essential Responsibilities & Duties

• Design and lead AI-based solutions and services, selecting optimal architectures aligned with GEI’s cloud, data, and security standards.
• Define and maintain AI reference architecture patterns for platforms such as Azure AI, Azure OpenAI, Copilot extensions, and related integrations.
• Lead solution architecture for priority AI use cases, including hands-on design, technical decision-making, and architecture reviews.
• Identify technical, security, data, and delivery risks associated with AI solutions and implement appropriate mitigation strategies.
• Embed Responsible AI principles into solution designs, including privacy, security, transparency, and model risk management.
• Partner with GEI enterprise architecture, IT, and delivery teams to harmonize AI, cloud, and data standards.
• Create and maintain architecture decision records, solution diagrams, and deployment guidance to support consistent implementation.

Minimum Qualifications

We are GEI.

Some of the world’s most pressing problems – from climate change to sustainable development, to critical infrastructure and the future of our energy supply – need our brightest and diverse minds working together to create safer, more resilient communities for tomorrow.

We are technical experts, collaborators, and entrepreneurs who draw from diverse backgrounds to solve our clients’ most complex challenges.

With several offices across North America, we offer a range of engineering, science, and technical consulting services. Our range of expertise, project types, and culture make us the choice for top talent in the AEC industry. See all our office locations here.

Employee-owned. Employee-focused.

As an employee-owned company, our employees support our flat leadership structure, have a say in how our business operates and benefit from our financial success. We are committed to employee growth with career development opportunities, competitive total rewards, a well-being program, flexible work arrangements and more.  Our company culture is driven by our 4 Cs – we are Client-Centered, Curious, Collaborative, and Community Minded – which support our focus on sustainability, safety, diversity, equity and inclusion. Get to know us better by visiting GEI’s career site here.

GEI’s Total Rewards Package Includes

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

WORK ENVIRONMENT

Functional Demands : Sedentary

Light

Medium

Other

Activity Level Throughout Workday (check one per row)

Physical Activity Requirements

Occasional

(0-35% of day)

Frequent

(33-66% of day)

Continuous

(67-100% of day)

Not Applicable

Sitting

Standing

Walking

Climbing

Lifting (floor to waist level) (in pounds)

Lifting (waist level and above) (in pounds)

Carrying objects

Push / pull

Twisting

Bending

Reaching forward

Reaching overhead

Squat / kneel / crawl

Wrist position deviation

Pinching / fine motor skills

Keyboard use / repetitive motion

Taste or smell (taste=never)

Talk or hear

Accurate 20 / 40

Very Accurate 20 / 20

Not Applicable

Near Vision

Far Vision

Yes

No