Senior AI Architecture Lead & Strategy Advisor

EY; Charleston (WV); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 360,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Job summary

EY is seeking a Senior Manager Architect to lead the design and implementation of enterprise AI architecture across Knowledge, Trust, and Control/Harness blocks. You will balance hands-on delivery with cross-functional coordination to enable enterprise AI adoption with robust governance and compliance practices.

The role emphasizes foundation model management, safety, agentic design, and NLP/VLM integration, with a focus on scalable, trusted AI solutions across EY's enterprise platforms.

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

Governance

Strategic thinking

Hybrid work

AI expertise

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s or PhD (preferred)

Tools

Foundation models (LLM/SLM)

Observability tooling

Governance tooling

Agentic AI platforms (Nvidia, MSFT)

Job description

EY is seeking a Senior Manager Architect to lead the design and implementation of enterprise AI architecture across Knowledge, Trust, and Control/Harness blocks. You will balance hands-on delivery with cross-functional coordination to enable enterprise AI adoption with robust governance and compliance practices.

The role emphasizes foundation model management, safety, agentic design, and NLP/VLM integration, with a focus on scalable, trusted AI solutions across EY's enterprise platforms.