Senior AI Architecture Leader — Enterprise Trust & Innovation

EY; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 374,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Paid time off

Flexible vacation policy

Job summary

EY in the United States is seeking a strategic and technically adept Senior Manager Architect to lead the design and implementation of enterprise AI architecture across knowledge, trust, and control domains.

This role spans foundation model management, safety, agentic design, and AI integration, balancing hands-on delivery with cross-functional coordination to enable enterprise AI adoption with robust governance and monitoring.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of 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

Strategic thinking

Governance

AI governance

Communication

Hands-on delivery

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field

Master’s or PhD in CS/EE/Math

Tools

NVIDIA AI platforms

Microsoft AI platforms

Crew AI platform

Job description

EY in the United States is seeking a strategic and technically adept Senior Manager Architect to lead the design and implementation of enterprise AI architecture across knowledge, trust, and control domains.

This role spans foundation model management, safety, agentic design, and AI integration, balancing hands-on delivery with cross-functional coordination to enable enterprise AI adoption with robust governance and monitoring.