Prompt Engineer

OVERVIEW

The Prompt Engineer is responsible for designing, optimizing, and operationalizing AI prompts and workflows that enhance decision-making across Capital Markets and Commercial Banking functions. This role focuses on bridging the gap between front-office business needs and AI-driven insights, ensuring that AI platforms deliver accurate, timely, and context-aware outputs that align with market dynamics and regulatory requirements.

The ideal candidate will possess a strong background in Capital Markets and Commercial Banking, with the ability to translate complex workflows into effective AI-driven interactions. They will work independently while collaborating with stakeholders, leveraging their analytical skills to create tailored prompts that improve productivity and streamline processes. A commitment to continuous learning and adaptability in a fast-paced environment will be key to their success.

Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid)

Contract Length: 6 months, with extension likelihood

Hours: 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM

$74/hour T4  -  $83/hour IC 

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design and optimize AI prompts for various use cases across trading desks, sales workflows, research generation, pricing analytics, and risk reporting.
• Tailor prompts to meet the specific needs of different personas, including traders, sales professionals, quants, and risk managers.
• Translate complex Capital Markets workflows, such as trade lifecycle and credit adjudication, into effective AI-driven interactions.
• Enable AI to generate insights on market events, positions, client portfolios, and trade opportunities.
• Ensure AI outputs are context-aware, incorporating market data, client context, and regulatory constraints to facilitate decision-making.
• Support scenario analysis, trade recommendations, and risk insights through AI workflows.
• Leverage structured and unstructured data, including market feeds and trade data, to enhance prompt effectiveness.
• Integrate prompts with Microsoft Fabric, Graph, Dataverse, and trading/risk systems to optimize performance.
• Evaluate prompt performance using real trading scenarios and iterate based on feedback from traders, sales, and risk teams.
• Ensure compliance with Capital Markets and Commercial Banking regulations, embedding guardrails for data privacy and explainability.
• Develop reusable prompt libraries for trading, research, and sales workflows to drive adoption of AI-assisted processes.
• Train front-office and middle-office teams on effective AI usage to enhance overall productivity.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in Capital Markets and Commercial Banking Sales, with a focus on credit adjudication, AML/KYC, trading, and investment products.
• Strong understanding of the credit adjudication lifecycle, product offerings, pricing models, P&L, risk metrics, and regulatory controls.
• At least 1 year of hands-on experience designing prompts for LLMs, Copilot, or GenAI platforms.
• Experience with RAG pipelines, vector search, embeddings, and agentic workflows.
• Strong data analysis skills, capable of working with both structured and unstructured datasets.
• Familiarity with market data sources and financial datasets is essential.
• Proven ability to collaborate closely with traders, bankers, risk managers, and technology teams.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complex business needs into scalable AI solutions.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Experience with Microsoft Fabric, Power Platform, and Graph API integration.
• Familiarity with Amazon Bedrock Agentcore.

PREFERRED

• Relevant postsecondary degree in a related field.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or other non-merit factor. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment for all employees.