AI Architecture Lead for Enterprise Systems

EY; Lansing (MI); On-site; USD 144,000 - 329,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Pension and 401(k)

Paid time off

Flexible vacation policy

Job summary

EY is seeking a Senior Manager Architect to lead the design and implementation of AI architectures spanning Knowledge, Trust, and Control/Harness blocks across the enterprise. You’ll balance hands‑on delivery with cross‑functional coordination to enable enterprise AI adoption with robust compliance, monitoring, and integration.

You’ll work on Foundation Model management, safety, agentic design, and NLP/vision systems while collaborating with EY teams to drive firmwide AI initiatives.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in enterprise architecture, governance, or compliance technology
• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field
• Knowledge of AI Foundation Model frameworks, Llama, Gemini, Claude, OpenAI, Mistral, Deepseek etc.
• Experience with observability, safety and governance tooling
• Familiar with Agentic AI platforms (Nvidia, MSFT, Crew)
• Proven track record in building and delivering large‑scale enterprise platforms

Responsibilities

• Oversee the design and implementation of AI agentic systems and frameworks based on foundation models, LLM, and SLM
• Integrate external vendor tools for model monitoring, security, and compliance
• Collaborate with EY teams to align AI initiatives
• Serve as a player‑coach, contributing to technical delivery while coordinating firmwide AI adoption
• Be a true expert across Knowledge, Trust, and Control/Harness AI systems and their applications to customer opportunities and internal horizontal platform development
• Member of the Enterprise Architecture council guiding initiatives to success
• Maintain current knowledge of AI trends, model architectures, trust frameworks, and control/harness patterns for the timely adoption of emerging AI technology

Skills

Strong leadership

Cross-functional communication

Strategic mindset

Innovation minded

Hybrid/work collaboration

Analytical rigor

Hands-on development

Stakeholder influence

Advisor across AI domains

Governance translation

Education

Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field

Masters or PhD preferred

Tools

AI Foundation Models

LLMs/SLM platforms

Observability tooling

Governance tooling

Agentic AI platforms

Job description

EY is seeking a Senior Manager Architect to lead the design and implementation of AI architectures spanning Knowledge, Trust, and Control/Harness blocks across the enterprise. You’ll balance hands‑on delivery with cross‑functional coordination to enable enterprise AI adoption with robust compliance, monitoring, and integration.

You’ll work on Foundation Model management, safety, agentic design, and NLP/vision systems while collaborating with EY teams to drive firmwide AI initiatives.