Senior AI Architecture & Governance Leader

EY; Grand Rapids (MI); On-site; USD 144,000 - 329,000; Full time

Job summary

EY in the United States seeks a Senior Manager Architect to lead the design and implementation of enterprise AI architecture spanning knowledge, trust, and control domains with foundation models and NLP/vision systems. This role blends hands‑on delivery with cross‑functional coordination for enterprise AI adoption.

This position requires governance, safety tooling expertise, and strong stakeholder influence across teams, delivering measurable business outcomes in a hybrid work environment.

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

Enterprise architecture

Governance

AI compliance

Cross-functional leadership

Observability

Hybrid cloud

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's or PhD (preferred)

Tools

NVIDIA AI tools

Azure

Job description

EY in the United States seeks a Senior Manager Architect to lead the design and implementation of enterprise AI architecture spanning knowledge, trust, and control domains with foundation models and NLP/vision systems. This role blends hands‑on delivery with cross‑functional coordination for enterprise AI adoption.

This position requires governance, safety tooling expertise, and strong stakeholder influence across teams, delivering measurable business outcomes in a hybrid work environment.