Automation Architect

Ansira; United States; Remote; USD 31,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

Ansira seeks a senior leader to drive automation and AI initiatives from discovery through design and deployment. The role leads a team of AI and automation developers, defines standards, and partners with leaders to translate business needs into scalable solutions across enterprise systems.

The candidate will set technical direction, mentor engineers, and ensure governance and observability across automation programs, working closely with stakeholders and engineering teams.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years designing and leading automation/AI architecture across multiple enterprise systems.
• Programming experience in any coding language.
• Demonstrated system design experience.
• Strong software development practices (testing, CI/CD, code quality standards).
• Working experience designing and deploying agentic workflows.
• Experience leading or mentoring engineering teams.
• Proficiency in English.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery and opportunity assessment across business functions to identify high-value automation targets.
• Own end-to-end architecture and technical design for automation and AI workflows, spanning multiple enterprise systems.
• Set and enforce engineering standards - testing, observability, deployment, and governance - for the automation program.
• Manage and mentor a team of AI and automation developers, setting technical direction and reviewing designs.
• Translate leadership and stakeholder priorities into technical specifications, and technical tradeoffs back into business terms.
• Design integration patterns connecting AI agents, RPA/automation platforms, and enterprise systems.
• Partner with engineering, business stakeholders, and automation engineers to validate and prioritize solutions.
• Own vendor/platform evaluation input and reusable component standards for the automation practice.

Skills

Automation architecture

AI systems design

Mentoring engineering teams

English proficiency

Tools

UiPath

n8n

Zapier

APIs

Cloud platforms

SQL

Job description

Reports into Ansira's AI Center of Excellence, based in Colombia. Leads the discovery, design, and deployment of mission-critical AI and automation workflows across the business, and manages a group of AI and automation developers. Partners closely with leadership, business stakeholders, the broader engineering organization, and the automation engineering team to turn business needs into scalable, well-governed automated solutions.

What You Will Do

• Lead discovery and opportunity assessment across business functions to identify high-value automation targets
• Own end-to-end architecture and technical design for automation and AI workflows, spanning multiple enterprise systems
• Set and enforce engineering standards - testing, observability, deployment, and governance - for the automation program
• Manage and mentor a team of AI and automation developers, setting technical direction and reviewing designs
• Translate leadership and stakeholder priorities into technical specifications, and technical tradeoffs back into business terms
• Design integration patterns connecting AI agents, RPA/automation platforms, and enterprise systems
• Partner with engineering, business stakeholders, and automation engineers to validate and prioritize solutions
• Own vendor/platform evaluation input and reusable component standards for the automation practice

Qualifications

Required

• 5-7 years designing and leading automation/AI system architecture across multiple enterprise systems
• Programming experience in any coding language
• Demonstrated system design experience
• Strong software development practices (testing, CI/CD, code quality standards)
• Working experience designing and deploying agentic workflows
• Experience leading or mentoring engineering teams
• Proficiency in English

Preferred

• Experience with enterprise integration patterns (APIs, microservices, cloud platforms)
• Experience establishing governance/CoE frameworks
• Experience supporting platform or vendor evaluation

Skills & Mindsets

• Systems thinker who can architect across integrated platforms, not just build within them
• Strong communicator who bridges leadership, stakeholders, and engineers
• Entrepreneurial, fast learner, comfortable in a high-paced, ambiguous environment
• Simplicity and pragmatism - favors the straightforward, maintainable design over the clever one
• Strong value-delivery mindset - prioritizes shipped, adopted outcomes
• Comfortable setting and upholding AI governance/security guardrails for mission-critical systems
• People-leadership mindset - mentors and grows a technical team
• Comfortable operating with uncertainty and ambiguity
• Motivated by ambitious goals, not just incremental improvement

Tools & Technologies

• AI agent tools: Claude, Claude Code, Glean
• Automation / low-code / no-code: UiPath, n8n, Zapier
• Architecture & integration: APIs, microservices, cloud platforms, MCP, SQL, SaaS integrations