Senior AI Architecture & Strategy Lead

EY; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 359,000; Full time

Job summary

EY is seeking a Senior Manager Architect to lead enterprise AI architecture across Knowledge, Trust, and Control/Harness blocks. You will shape foundation model management, safety, agentic design, and NLP/SLM integrations, balancing hands-on delivery with firmwide coordination to enable enterprise AI adoption with strong governance.

The role requires 10+ years in enterprise architecture, a relevant degree, and experience with AI platforms and observability tools.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, governance, or compliance technology.
• 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

Cross-functional communication

Governance

Strategic mindset

Influencing senior stakeholders

Hands-on development

AI knowledge

Enterprise architecture

Architectural design

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field

Masters or PhD in CS/EE/Math

Tools

AI Foundation Model frameworks

Llama

Gemini

Claude

OpenAI

Mistral

Deepseek

Observability tooling

Safety governance tooling

Job description

EY is seeking a Senior Manager Architect to lead enterprise AI architecture across Knowledge, Trust, and Control/Harness blocks. You will shape foundation model management, safety, agentic design, and NLP/SLM integrations, balancing hands-on delivery with firmwide coordination to enable enterprise AI adoption with strong governance.

The role requires 10+ years in enterprise architecture, a relevant degree, and experience with AI platforms and observability tools.