System Architect - AI Engineering & Deployment (6 month Contract)

Job Type: Temporary Contract
Work Model: Hybrid
Reference code: 133692
Primary Location: Toronto, ON
All Available Locations: Toronto, ON

Our Purpose

At Deloitte, our Purpose is to make an impact that matters. We exist to inspire and help our people, organizations, communities, and countries to thrive by building a better future. Our work underpins a prosperous society where people can find meaning and opportunity. It builds consumer and business confidence, empowers organizations to find imaginative ways of deploying capital, enables fair, trusted, and functioning social and economic institutions, and allows our friends, families, and communities to enjoy the quality of life that comes with a sustainable future. And as the largest 100% Canadian-owned and operated professional services firm in our country, we are proud to work alongside our clients to make a positive impact for all Canadians.

By living our Purpose, we will make an impact that matters.

• Have many careers in one Firm.
• Enjoy flexible, proactive, and practical benefits that foster a culture of well-being and connectedness.
• Learn from deep subject matter experts through mentoring and on the job coaching

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About the team

Deloitte's AI & Engineering practice helps the world's most regulated and complex organizations put generative AI to work where it matters most - in lines of business where accuracy, auditability, and compliance aren't negotiable. We design, build, and deploy applied AI solutions for clients in financial services, healthcare, government, energy, and life sciences, working at the application layer to turn frontier model capabilities into tools that hold up under real operational and regulatory pressure.

Our solutions are deployed where our clients need them: inside client-controlled environments - secure VPCs, regulated cloud tenants, on-premise infrastructure, and customer-owned accounts. That deployment model is fundamental to how we serve the industries we work with, and it's central to this role.

What will your typical day look like?

Deloitte is hiring a System Architect to join our AI & Engineering team and help us scale the way we deploy and operate AI solutions - both inside our clients' environments and across Deloitte's internal delivery platforms.

You'll sit at the intersection of engineering, delivery, and operations. The work is split across two audiences:

Client-side: Help design and build the deployment tooling that gets Deloitte AI solutions running inside client-controlled VPCs and regulated cloud environments - install, configure, upgrade, observe, audit - with the security defaults and operational defensibility our clients require.

Deloitte internal: Help harden the platforms and SOPs that Deloitte's engineering, DevOps, and delivery teams rely on to ship consistently across engagements - CI/CD, environment management, release flow, observability, incident tooling - so each new client deployment isn't a bespoke effort.This is a mid-junior role with meaningful ownership. The patterns and playbooks for deploying applied AI into regulated client environments are still being written across the industry - Deloitte included. You'll be expected to bring strong fundamentals, ask sharp questions, and work things out where references don't yet exist, with senior architects and engineering leads close by to think alongside you.

What You'll Work On

Partnering with engineering and delivery leads to identify the deployment and operations patterns worth codifying, and shaping them into SOPs that live inside the systems they govern - not in a forgotten wiki or SharePoint folder.Contributing to Deloitte's internal engineering platforms: CI/CD pipelines, environment management, release workflows, observability stacks, incident response tooling - turning manual and bespoke processes into repeatable ones.Helping design and build the deployment tooling that lands Deloitte AI solutions cleanly inside client VPCs and regulated cloud accounts - installation, configuration, upgrade paths, monitoring, logging, audit - with strong defaults around security, compliance, and traceability. Keeping Deloitte's internal stacks and client-side deployment patterns coherent, so we don't drift into divergent worlds held together by tribal knowledge across project teams. Bringing what you learn - about new AI tooling, new deployment patterns, new operational approaches - back into how Deloitte builds and ships. This is part of the job, not a side activity.

Enough about us, let’s talk about you

You are someone with:

• A solid foundation in software systems and full-stack development.
• Formal training, equivalent professional experience, or a portfolio that shows you've built and shipped real systems. We care about substances, not credentials.
• Working AI fluency.
• You understand the fundamentals - how LLMs and other generative models work, what they're good at, where they break, how context and tooling shape what they can do.
• You use AI assistants like Claude and Claude Code as part of how you actually get work done, not as a novelty.
• We're hiring engineers who already think with these tools, not researchers.
• Genuine curiosity about AI. The kind where keeping up with the field is something you'd be doing anyway.
• The pace of change in this space is part of the job; if it energizes you, you'll thrive here.
• Resourcefulness in unmapped territory.
• A meaningful share of this work won't have a Stack Overflow answer or a published reference architecture.
• We're looking for someone who treats that as the interesting part - who can decompose a novel problem, prototype, learn from what breaks, and converge on something durable.
• A fast, structure learner.
• New tools, models, and patterns land constantly.
• You don't need to know everything; you need to get up to speed quickly and stay honest about what you don't know yet.
• Strong communication.
• You can write a clear SOP, walk a teammate through a design choice, and push back on an idea - including your own - without ego.
• Much of the leverage in this role comes from how well your work transfers to other people across Deloitte's delivery teams.

Bonus
Experience with cloud-native infrastructure (Azure, AWS, or GCP); IaC (Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation); containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes); CI/CD tooling; exposure to regulated industries (financial services, healthcare, public sector); hands-on experience integrating LLMs or AI tooling into engineering or delivery workflows.

To Apply
Include in your application a short note on something technical you taught yourself recently - what drew you to it, and what you ended up doing with it.

Total Rewards

The salary range for this position is $68,000 - $102,000, and individuals may be eligible to participate in our bonus program. Deloitte is fair and competitive when it comes to the salaries of our people. We regularly benchmark across a variety of positions, industries, sectors, targets, and levels. Our approach is grounded on recognizing people's unique strengths and contributions and rewarding the value that they deliver.

Our Total Rewards Package extends well beyond traditional compensation and benefit programs and is designed to recognize employee contributions, encourage personal wellness, and support firm growth. Along with a competitive base salary and variable pay opportunities, we offer a wide array of initiatives that differentiate us as a people-first organization. On top of our regular paid vacation days, some examples include: $4,000 per year for mental health support benefits, a $1,300 flexible benefit spending account, firm-wide closures known as "Deloitte Days", dedicated days of for learning (known as Development and Innovation Days), flexible work arrangements and a hybrid work structure.

Our promise to our people: Deloitte is where potential comes to life.

Be yourself, and more.

We are a group of talented people who want to learn, gain experience, and develop skills. Wherever you are in your career, we want you to advance.

You shape how we make impact.

Diverse perspectives and life experiences make us better. Whoever you are and wherever you’re from, we want you to feel like you belong here. We provide flexible working options to support you and how you can contribute.

Be the leader you want to be

Some guide teams, some change culture, some build essential expertise. We offer opportunities and experiences that support your continuing growth as a leader.

Have as many careers as you want.

We are uniquely able to offer you new challenges and roles – and prepare you for them. We bring together people with unique experiences and talents, and we are the place to develop a lasting network of friends, peers, and mentors.

The next step is yours

At Deloitte, we are all about doing business inclusively – that starts with having diverse colleagues of all abilities. Deloitte encourages applications from all qualified candidates who represent the full diversity of communities across Canada. This includes, but is not limited to, people with disabilities, candidates from Indigenous communities, and candidates from the Black community in support of living our values, creating a culture of Diversity Equity and Inclusion and our commitment to our AccessAbility Action Plan, Reconciliation Action Plan and the BlackNorth Initiative.

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When you apply, we will review your application using Deloitte's Global Talent Standards to ensure a consistent recruitment experience. Our recruitment advisors and hiring teams will utilize human screening combined with AI technology to help identify the skills and qualities that matter most to our business, while safeguarding your privacy and using AI responsibly.

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