Senior AI Architecture Lead — Enterprise & Governance

Ernst & Young Oman; Providence (RI); On-site; USD 144,000 - 359,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Medical and dental coverage

Pension and 401(k) plans

Flexible vacation policy

Paid holidays

Job summary

EY is seeking a strategic Senior Manager Architect to lead enterprise AI architecture spanning Knowledge, Trust, and Control/Harness blocks across the organization. The role covers foundation model management, safety, agentic design, AI application integration, and future NLP/SLM directions.

You will balance hands-on delivery with cross-functional coordination, ensuring enterprise AI adoption through governance, monitoring, integration, and control practices 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.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Governance & compliance

AI architecture

Foundation models

LLM/SLM

Security & monitoring

Strategic thinking

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Masters or PhD (CS/EE/Math)

Tools

Observability tooling

Governance tooling

Hybrid cloud environments

Job description

EY is seeking a strategic Senior Manager Architect to lead enterprise AI architecture spanning Knowledge, Trust, and Control/Harness blocks across the organization. The role covers foundation model management, safety, agentic design, AI application integration, and future NLP/SLM directions.

You will balance hands-on delivery with cross-functional coordination, ensuring enterprise AI adoption through governance, monitoring, integration, and control practices in a hybrid work environment.