Senior AI Architecture Leader — Knowledge & Trust

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Pension & 401(k)

Paid time off

Job summary

EY seeks a Senior Manager Architect to lead enterprise AI architecture spanning knowledge, trust, and control across Foundation Model management, safety, and agentic design. Role balances hands-on delivery with cross-functional coordination.

The candidate will guide design and implementation, collaborate across EY teams, and act as the go-to authority for knowledge, trust, and control AI development and governance, enabling compliant, scalable AI adoption.

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 (e.g., Llama, Gemini, Claude, OpenAI, Mistral, Deepseek).
• Experience with observability, safety and governance tooling.
• Familiarity 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 an 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 timely adoption of emerging AI technology.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional comms

Governance

Strategic thinking

AI knowledge

Problem solving

Data-driven decisions

Hybrid work

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Masters or PhD (preferred)

Tools

Nvidia

Microsoft

Crew AI

Job description

EY seeks a Senior Manager Architect to lead enterprise AI architecture spanning knowledge, trust, and control across Foundation Model management, safety, and agentic design. Role balances hands-on delivery with cross-functional coordination.

The candidate will guide design and implementation, collaborate across EY teams, and act as the go-to authority for knowledge, trust, and control AI development and governance, enabling compliant, scalable AI adoption.