Enterprise AI & 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 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.