Workana
Workana
51 – 200 Employees
HR TechMarketplaceRecruitment
Workana is a Latin American HR technology and talent marketplace that helps businesses find and engage remote developers, freelancers, and other specialists. Its platform supports project-based work and time-limited engagements across areas including IT and programming, design and multimedia, and writing and translation. Workana also provides pre-selected talent, flexible payment options in local currencies or US dollars, protected payments, and a satisfaction guarantee to support remote hiring from project start through completion.

Lead AI Solutions Architect – Toronto Hybrid

Lead the design and delivery of scalable AI/ML systems for a global financial institution. Guide R&D, production deployment, and engineering mentorship across financial-services applications.

Description

  • Design and deliver end-to-end AI/ML solutions, from model development through scalable production deployment with modern frameworks
  • Lead AI/ML research and development focused on document intelligence, text extraction, and automated decision systems
  • Advance technical innovation through RAG, multi-agent architectures, and transformer-based solutions
  • Build, operate, and improve deployment and observability pipelines for production AI models
  • Coordinate technical delivery among ML engineers, backend developers, data teams, and business stakeholders
  • Create technical roadmaps, solution architectures, capacity plans, and system optimization strategies
  • Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, engineering standards, and algorithm selection
  • Work with business stakeholders to connect complex AI capabilities to measurable business value and ROI

Requirements

  • At least 10 years of professional software development or relevant research experience, including strong Python expertise
  • At least 3 years of hands-on experience building and deploying production AI/ML solutions
  • Expert-level proficiency in Python
  • Working knowledge of FastAPI, Django, or Flask
  • Hands-on experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, HuggingFace, and LangChain
  • Demonstrated expertise in NLP, modern transformer architectures, RAG, and multi-agent systems
  • Strong experience with relational databases, PostgreSQL, data-processing pipelines, and ETL
  • Experience architecting full-stack systems, leading complex AI initiatives, and mentoring engineers
  • Experience working in financial services or another highly regulated industry
  • Hands-on experience with document processing, PDF parsing, and text-extraction pipelines
  • Familiarity with prompt engineering and strategies for optimizing large language models
  • Publications or research contributions to AI/ML conferences or journals
  • Availability to work in the office two to three days per week

Benefits

  • Compensation is provided in USD
  • Opportunities for career growth through international clients and varied projects
  • Long-term independent contractor agreement
  • No additional benefits are provided

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