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Director AI Engineering
@ CGI
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
CGI is hiring a Director, Consulting Services to build and lead a new AI engineering capability within its Toronto Financial Services unit, serving banking, insurance and wealth management clients. The role is a hands-on player-coach position: leading the team and client relationships while staying close to building demos and shaping solutions. The role is hybrid, requiring a minimum of two days per week in the downtown Toronto office or at a client office.
Responsibilities:
- Build and lead the new AI engineering team
- Develop people and manage team delivery
- Build and maintain trusted client relationships
- Build demos and shape complex AI solutions
- Set technical direction alongside the team
Requirements summary:
- Experience leading and developing technical teams
- Strong client relationship skills in financial services
- Hands-on AI engineering background
- Ability to work hybrid, minimum two days per week in office
Source and dates
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-09-24
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-17
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-17
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Job details
| Seniority | Director |
| Department | Software development |
| Manages people | Yes |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Work setting | Office, Client sites |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
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CGI
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Company size | 10001+ |
| Headquarters | E-Commerce Place |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 514 |
We are looking for a Director, Consulting Services to build and lead this new capability. This is a people leadership role with accountability for the team, delivery, and client relationships. The AI engineering team will report to this role, including Forward Deployed Engineer / AI Co-op, Agentic AI Engineers, Founding AI Engineers, and the Distinguished AI Engineer.
This is a hands-on leadership role. You will stay close to the work by building demos, helping shape complex solutions, and setting technical direction alongside the team. As a player-coach, you will develop people, build trusted client relationships, grow the capability, and remain actively engaged in how solutions are designed and built.
This role is hybrid and requires you to work from our downtown Toronto office and/or client office a minimum of two days per week, subject to change at any time.
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