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It oversees end-to-end technical delivery for Intact and helps grow Cognizant's business across other insurance engagements in Canada. You will plan, run and govern AI-enabled transformation programs that bring large language models (LLMs), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), agentic AI and machine learning operations (MLOps) into enterprise platforms on AWS and Azure. You will also use your property and casualty (P&C) insurance knowledge to deliver measurable business results in a hybrid, day-shift role.\nKey Responsibilities:\nOwn end-to-end technical delivery of the Intact engagement, including scope, schedule, budget, quality and release commitments across several concurrent workstreams.\n\nLead the implementation of AI solutions, including LLM integration, RAG pipelines, agentic AI workflows, document AI and model evaluation, from proof of concept through production rollout and hypercare.\n\nTurn complex insurance business needs into prioritized AI use cases, epics, user stories, acceptance criteria and release plans, working with business, product and engineering stakeholders.\n\nCoordinate AI delivery on Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Search, making sure teams account for the trade-offs between model accuracy, latency and cost.\n\nSet up AI delivery governance, including responsible-AI guardrails, data access controls, model monitoring, MLOps lifecycle checkpoints and compliance with regulatory and enterprise security standards.\n\nBuild and maintain integrated program schedules, milestones, delivery checkpoints, dependency maps, risk registers, decision logs and executive status reports.\n\nLead globally distributed teams of engineers, data scientists, architects, quality assurance, operations and vendor partners across multiple time zones.\n\nRun executive steering committees and give clear, objective updates on delivery progress, AI adoption results, risks, dependencies and scope decisions.\n\nManage cloud and data modernization dependencies, such as cloud migrations and data platform readiness (for example, Snowflake), that support AI workloads in production.\n\nFind technical risks, resource constraints and quality concerns early, assign accountable owners and track mitigation through closure.\n\nOversee release management, regression testing, integration validation, cutover, rollback planning and post-release stabilization for AI-enabled and core insurance platform releases.\n\nSupport Cognizant Canadian insurance engagements by helping with solution shaping, estimates, proposals, client demos and delivery playbooks for AI implementation.\n\nMentor project managers and delivery leads on Agile delivery, AI program governance and technical delivery practices, and sit on interview panels to build the practice.\n\nWork model\nAt Cognizant, we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible, and we are here to support a healthy work-life balance through our various well-being programs. Based on this role's business requirements, this is an onsite position requiring 3 days a week in a client or Cognizant office in Toronto, Ontario\nRequired Skills and Qualifications:\nAt least 12 years of IT delivery experience, including at least 5 years as a senior technical project or program manager on large enterprise application, cloud, data or AI transformation programs.\n\nProven hands-on AI implementation experience delivering generative AI solutions (LLMs, RAG, multimodal RAG, agentic AI, prompt engineering, fine-tuning, model evaluation and MLOps) into production business workflows.\n\nWorking knowledge of AWS AI/ML services (Amazon Bedrock, SageMaker, Textract, Comprehend, Lambda) and Azure AI services (Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, Azure ML Studio, AI Foundry), plus frameworks such as LangChain.\n\nStrong P&C insurance domain experience, ideally including Guidewire ClaimCenter and PolicyCenter, and AI use cases for claims, first notice of loss (FNOL), underwriting or policy operations.\n\nSolid background in cloud and data platform modernization, including on-premises-to-cloud migrations, enterprise data platforms (Snowflake, Teradata) and enterprise integrations.\n\nExpert knowledge of Agile, Scrum, SAFe and hybrid delivery methods, using Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, MS Project and ServiceNow.\n\nExcellent stakeholder management, executive communication and client-facing skills, with a track record of on-time, on-budget delivery of multi-million-dollar programs.\n\nCertifications good to have:\n· PMP certification is required. Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), ITIL and AWS or Azure AI certifications (such as AWS AI Practitioner or Azure AI-900) are preferred.\n· Frontier certifications (any)\n· Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science or a related field\nCognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in the Canada without requiring company sponsorship now or at any time in the future.\nSalary and Other Compensation\nWe regularly assess market data to ensure we offer a competitive compensation package for our associates. The base salary for this position ranges between CAD $150,000 - $170,000 per year. Where the successful candidate may fall within the range depends on relevant education, work and/or management experience and other business-related and job-necessary qualifications. This position is also eligible for Cognizant's discretionary annual performance-based bonus, as well as benefits that support your physical, mental and financial wellbeing\nDisclaimer:\nCompensation information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.\nApplicants may be required to attend interviews in person or by video conference. In addition, candidates may be required to present their current state or government issued ID during each interview.\nWhile our system allows application in all languages, job required language(s) and proficiency level(s) vary. However, basic English proficiency is required for Company-wide communications purposes\nThe Cognizant community:\nWe are a high caliber team who appreciate and support one another. 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