Senior AI Architecture Leader — Enterprise Trust & Control

EY; Dallas (TX); Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 329,000; Full time

Job summary

EY is seeking a Senior Manager Architect to design and implement AI architecture spanning Knowledge, Trust, and Control/Harness Blocks across the enterprise. Lead foundation model management, safety, agentic design, and NLP/SLM integration while enabling enterprise AI adoption with robust governance and monitoring.

You will balance hands-on delivery with cross-functional coordination, chairing architecture initiatives and guiding firmwide AI strategy.

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

Leadership

Governance

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic thinking

AI platforms knowledge

Stakeholder influence

Hands-on delivery

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Masters/PhD preferred

Tools

AI Foundation Models (Llama, Gemini, Claude, OpenAI, Mistral)

Observability tools

Governance tooling

Agentic platforms (Nvidia, MSFT, Crew)

Job description

EY is seeking a Senior Manager Architect to design and implement AI architecture spanning Knowledge, Trust, and Control/Harness Blocks across the enterprise. Lead foundation model management, safety, agentic design, and NLP/SLM integration while enabling enterprise AI adoption with robust governance and monitoring.

You will balance hands-on delivery with cross-functional coordination, chairing architecture initiatives and guiding firmwide AI strategy.