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Prompt Engineer
Toronto, OntarioOn-siteContract6 monthsPosted August 26, 2026
Job Description
Role Title: Prompt Engineer
Ideal Start date: Nov 1, 2026
Contract duration: 6 months
Extension likelihood: yes
OT requirements: not anticipated
Hybrid work requirements: 2x/week in office
Role Mandate:
The role is responsible for designing, optimizing, and operationalizing AI prompts and workflows that power decision-making across Capital Markets and Commercial Banking functions, including Trading, Corporate Banking, Credit Structuring, Research, Risk, and Operations. This role bridges front-office business needs and AI-driven insights, ensuring AI platforms deliver accurate, timely, and context-aware outputs aligned with market dynamics, regulatory requirements, and enterprise data. By developing a deep understanding of bankers’ day-to-day workflows, the Prompt Engineer creates curated, workflow-specific prompts and AI experiences that improve productivity, streamline processes, accelerate analysis, and enhance client service. The role also owns the design, governance, and continuous improvement of a centralized prompt library, providing reusable, scalable, and business-aligned prompt assets that drive consistent AI outcomes, promote best practices, and accelerate adoption across the organization.
Team Structure:
Sole position reporting to HM, mostly independent but collaborative with stakeholders in Corporate Banking and broader Capital Markets.
Role Responsibilities:
AI Prompt Engineering for Capital Markets (Corporate Banking, Global Markets, Investment Banking) and Commercial Banking
• Design and optimize prompts for use cases across trading desks, sales workflows, research generation, pricing analytics, and risk reporting
• Tailor prompts for persona-specific needs (e.g., traders, sales, quants, risk managers)
Business-to-AI Translation
• Translate complex Capital Markets workflows (trade lifecycle, credit adjudication, pricing, P&L, exposure) into effective AI-driven interactions
• Enable AI to generate insights on market events, positions, client portfolios, and trade opportunities
AI-Driven Decision Enablement
• Ensure AI outputs are context-aware (market data, client context, regulatory constraints) and decision-ready
• Enable scenario analysis, trade recommendations, and risk insights using AI workflows
Integration with Enterprise Data & Platforms
• Leverage structured and unstructured data (market feeds, trade data, research, client notes)
• Integrate prompts with Microsoft Fabric, Graph, Dataverse, and trading/risk systems
• Support RAG-based architectures for research and knowledge retrieval
Continuous Optimization & Performance Tuning
• Evaluate prompt performance using real trading scenarios
• Iterate using feedback from traders, sales, and risk teams
• Improve precision, latency, and reliability of AI outputs
Governance, Compliance & Responsible AI
• Ensure AI outputs comply with Capital Markets and Commercial Banking regulations (e.g., trade surveillance, auditability, model risk)
• Embed guardrails for data privacy, explainability, and approval workflows
• Align with enterprise AI governance and model validation standards
Adoption & Enablement
• Develop reusable prompt libraries for trading, research, and sales workflows
• Train front-office and middle-office teams on effective AI usage
• Drive adoption of AI-assisted workflows across Capital Markets and Commercial Banking
Key Competencies
• Market-Aware Analytical Thinking – Ability to interpret market movements and translate them into AI use cases
• Structured Problem Solving – Breaking down complex trading workflows into AI-driven components
• Business-to-Technology Translation – Converting front-office needs into scalable AI solutions
• Decision-Oriented Communication – Delivering clear, actionable AI outputs for time-sensitive decisions
• Continuous Learning & Adaptability – Keeping up with evolving AI capabilities and market changes
• Precision & Risk Awareness – Ensuring high accuracy in AI outputs in a high-stakes financial environment
Qualifications
• Strong experience (3+ years) in Capital Markets and Commercial Banking Sales, including but not limited to credit adjudication, AML/KYC, trading, investment products etc.
• Understanding of credit adjudication lifecycle, product offerings, pricing models, P&L, risk metrics (VaR, sensitivities), and regulatory controls
• 1+ year of hands-on experience designing prompts for LLMs / Copilot / GenAI platforms
• Experience with RAG pipelines, vector search, embeddings, and agentic workflows
• Strong data analysis skills (structured + unstructured datasets)
• Familiarity with market data sources and financial datasets
• Ability to work closely with traders, bankers, risk managers, and technology teams
• Strong communication and translation across business and technology
Core Skills
• Microsoft ecosystem experience (Fabric, Power Platform, Graph API integration, etc)
• Amazon Bedrock Agentcore experience
• Relevant postsecondary degree
Interviews:
1 round, 45 min with HM and team member(s)
Requirements
- Design and optimize prompts for use cases across trading desks, sales workflows, research generation, pricing analytics, and risk reporting
- Tailor prompts for persona-specific needs (e.g., traders, sales, quants, risk managers)
- Translate complex Capital Markets workflows (trade lifecycle, credit adjudication, pricing, P&L, exposure) 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 (market data, client context, regulatory constraints) and decision-ready
- Enable scenario analysis, trade recommendations, and risk insights using AI workflows
- Leverage structured and unstructured data (market feeds, trade data, research, client notes)
- Integrate prompts with Microsoft Fabric, Graph, Dataverse, and trading/risk systems
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