Senior AI Architect & Enterprise Innovation Lead

Ernst & Young Oman; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 340,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical & dental coverage

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Flexible vacation policy

Job summary

EY seeks a strategic Senior Manager Architect to lead enterprise AI architecture, spanning Knowledge, Trust and Control/Harness blocks across foundation models, NLP, and VLM systems. You will balance hands-on delivery with cross-functional leadership, ensuring compliant, measurable AI adoption across the firm.

You will drive collaboration with EY teams, stay ahead on AI trends, and guide governance tooling while acting as a key advisor for Knowledge, Trust and AI platform development.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience 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

Strategic leadership

Enterprise arch.

Cross-functional

AI governance

Communication

Hands-on delivery

Education

Bachelor's degree

Masters or PhD

Relevant field

Tools

Nvidia

MSFT

Crew AI

Job description

EY seeks a strategic Senior Manager Architect to lead enterprise AI architecture, spanning Knowledge, Trust and Control/Harness blocks across foundation models, NLP, and VLM systems. You will balance hands-on delivery with cross-functional leadership, ensuring compliant, measurable AI adoption across the firm.

You will drive collaboration with EY teams, stay ahead on AI trends, and guide governance tooling while acting as a key advisor for Knowledge, Trust and AI platform development.