Chief Enterprise Architect: Data & AI Governance

Baker Tilly US; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

Baker Tilly US is seeking a Managing Director – Enterprise Architecture, Data & AI Governance to lead the firm’s enterprise architecture, data governance, and responsible AI governance initiatives. This executive will align architecture, data standards, and governance with strategic business priorities and public-company readiness.

Reporting to the CDIO, you will drive standardized patterns, risk-managed AI practices, and production readiness across capability and product lifecycles, partnering

Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive leadership experience across enterprise architecture, technology strategy, data architecture, engineering, or related disciplines.
• Demonstrated leadership experience in a publicly traded company, IPO-readiness environment, or organization operating with comparable public-company control, audit, governance, and disclosure rigor; direct participation in IPO preparation or public-company technology/control maturation strongly preferred.
• Working knowledge of public-company technology control expectations, including IT general controls, access and change controls, application/automated controls, evidence retention, auditability, control testing, remediation.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain Baker Tilly’s enterprise technology architecture, principles, standards, and target-state roadmaps.
• Establish architecture across major domains including applications, platforms, cloud, integration, APIs, enterprise data and identity.
• Create a coherent view of the firm’s current-state and target-state technology landscape and connect architectural roadmaps to business strategy, capability roadmaps, platform investments, and major transformation programs.
• Identify opportunities to simplify the technology estate and reduce redundant applications, platforms, integrations, and architectural patterns.
• Advise the CDIO and other senior stakeholders on significant architectural choices, technology investments, technical debt, and modernization priorities.
• Maintain architecture decision records and mechanisms that make significant enterprise technology decisions transparent and durable.
• Lead the enterprise AI Governance framework in partnership with Security, Risk, Legal, Compliance, APG, and other stakeholders.
• Partner with APG on agentic architecture through standards and gates rather than assuming design authority inside APG products.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture

Data Governance

AI Governance

Public-company governance

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

Baker Tilly US is seeking a Managing Director – Enterprise Architecture, Data & AI Governance to lead the firm’s enterprise architecture, data governance, and responsible AI governance initiatives. This executive will align architecture, data standards, and governance with strategic business priorities and public-company readiness.

Reporting to the CDIO, you will drive standardized patterns, risk-managed AI practices, and production readiness across capability and product lifecycles, partnering