Intern - Enterprise Architecture and Emerging Technologies (May 2026 - 16 months)

Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan is seeking an intern for their Enterprise Architecture and Emerging Technology team. The role involves researching, prototyping, and evaluating emerging solutions that combine AI, automation, data, and cloud-native infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Explore and prototype Agentic AI systems, including multi-agent workflows, tool-using agents, orchestration patterns, and human-in-the-loop solutions
• Design and build AI-enabled services using Python, integrating large language models, APIs, and enterprise data sources
• Deploy AI agents and supporting services using containerized architectures on Azure cloud
• Investigate how agent-based solutions integrate with microservices, event-driven architectures, and APIs in enterprise environments
• Work with a cloud data platform to enable agentic analytics, intelligent automation, and AI-driven use cases across structured and unstructured data
• Research emerging AI platforms, frameworks, and industry trends, performing market scans to assess maturity, adoption trends, and enterprise applicability of Agentic AI, generative AI, cloud-native, and intelligent automation technologies
• Support Innovation Challenges, hackathons, proofs of concepts, and experimentation initiatives across the organization
• Document architectures, solutions, and patterns; present demos; and share findings with technical and non-technical stakeholders

Skills

• Working towards a degree in Computer Science or similar degree
• Strong analytical, research, and communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly
• Experience with Python and web-based service development, including APIs and frameworks such as Flask or FastAPI
• Working knowledge of data fundamentals, including SQL and structured or unstructured data
• Introductory experience with cloud platforms and containerization concepts (Azure preferred; Docker and Kubernetes familiarity)
• Understanding of modern application and integration patterns such as microservices, event-driven architectures, service orchestration, and process automation
• Curiosity and motivation to research emerging technologies, solve complex problems, and work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team
• Interest in or exposure to generative AI, conversational AI, and AI agent concepts is an asset
• Experience with .NET / C# or enterprise platforms is an asset
• Familiarity with Microsoft Office tools for documentation and presentations is an asset

Benefits

• Numerous opportunities for professional growth and development, including lunch and learns
• Student led team building events on a monthly basis
• Employee discount programs including Edvantage and Perkopolis

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