AI Systems & Automation Architect

BrightNight; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

BrightNight invites an experienced Enterprise Architect to shape how information is owned, shared, and automated across Salesforce, PowerAlpha, and finance systems. You will define ownership, data sources, and controls while delivering secure, scalable solutions.

You will collaborate with IT, software engineering, and business leaders to translate strategic needs into robust data platforms and AI-powered workflows. This role drives adoption and standards across the Cognitive Enterprise.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in enterprise architecture, business systems, workflow automation, process design, or systems integration.
• Stay current with the latest AI research, coding frameworks, and industry tools to improve system performance.
• Strong process-mapping and systems-thinking skills with a bias to simplicity.
• Understanding of APIs, data ownership, systems of record, warehouses and data movement.
• Fluent with foundation models—LLMs, multimodal models—plus agents and retrieval-augmented generation.
• Ability to move between strategic architecture and hands-on delivery with business and technical teams.
• Hands-on Python and SQL experience strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Map cross-functional workflows, identifying systems, data, decisions, approvals, and handoffs.
• Define system ownership, authoritative data sources, data models, integration points, permissions, and controls.
• Design interfaces that connect systems and reduce rekeying and manual coordination.
• Shape the central data platform—sources, models, and pipelines—to support trusted reporting and AI.
• Determine when to use a standard workflow, integration, application, AI assistant, agent, or human approval.
• Translate business needs and AI capabilities into secure, maintainable solutions.
• Partner with IT, engineering, and leaders to prioritize, prototype, deploy, and improve solutions.
• Establish reusable standards for integrations, data governance, AI use, monitoring, and adoption; measure reliability and business impact.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Workflow automation

Data governance

APIs & data ownership

Python & SQL

AI & LLMs

Job description

BrightNight builds power infrastructure with technology at its core. Our proprietary PowerAlpha AI platform simulates millions of project designs and uses digital twins and predictive analytics to improve asset performance. We also use AI in everyday work and software engineering-not just in our products.

This is an opportunity to shape how a growing energy company puts data, AI, and automation to work. You’ll influence architecture and decisions, partner directly with leaders and technical teams, and own solutions from design through adoption.

The Opportunity

Partner with IT, software engineering, and business leaders to define how information is owned and shared—and where integration, automation, AI, or human judgment will make a difference.

Then turn those decisions into working solutions across Salesforce, Primavera P6, PowerAlpha, internal AI tools, Microsoft 365, SharePoint, and finance and contract systems. Your work will connect systems, improve how decisions get made, and help build BrightNight's Cognitive Enterprise.

What You’ll Do

• Map cross-functional workflows, identifying systems, data, decisions, approvals, and handoffs.
• Define system ownership, authoritative data sources, data models, integration points, permissions, and controls.
• Design interfaces that connect systems and reduce rekeying and manual coordination.
• Shape the central data platform - sources, models, and pipelines - to support trusted reporting, analytics, and AI.
• Determine when to use a standard workflow, integration, application, AI assistant, agent, or human approval.
• Translate business needs and emerging AI capabilities into secure, maintainable solutions.
• Partner with IT, engineering, and functional leaders to prioritize, prototype, deploy, and improve solutions.
• Establish reusable standards for integrations, data governance, AI use, monitoring, and adoption; measure reliability and business impact.

What You’ll Bring

• 6+ years in enterprise architecture, business systems, workflow automation, process design, or systems integration.
• Stay current with the latest AI research, coding frameworks, and industry tools, and apply new developments to improve system performance and innovation.
• Strong process-mapping and systems-thinking skills, with the judgment to simplify rather than add complexity.
• Understanding of APIs, integrations, data ownership, systems of record, warehouses and lakes, and automated data movement.
• Practical fluency with the latest generation of foundation models—including large language and multimodal models - plus agents, retrieval-augmented generation, document intelligence, and human-in-the-loop workflows.
• Ability to move between strategic architecture and hands-on delivery, working effectively with business and technical teams.
• Hands-on Python and SQL experience strongly preferred.

Reports to: Vice President of Cognitive Enterprise and AI