Senior AI Architecture & Strategy Lead

EY; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 329,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Pension and 401(k)

Paid time off

Flexible vacation policy

EY holidays

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 leadership to enable trusted AI adoption at scale.

In this role you’ll guide foundation model management, safety, and governance tooling, while aligning initiatives across EY teams and the enterprise architecture council.

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 design and implementation of AI agentic systems 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, delivering technical work while coordinating firmwide AI adoption.
• Be an expert across Knowledge, Trust, and Control/Harness AI systems for customer opportunities and internal platform development.
• Member of the Enterprise Architecture council guiding initiatives to success.
• Maintain knowledge of AI trends, model architectures, trust frameworks and control patterns.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional communication

Governance translation

Strategic thinking

Hybrid collaboration

AI expertise

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s or PhD (preferred)

Tools

NVIDIA

Microsoft

Crew AI

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 leadership to enable trusted AI adoption at scale.

In this role you’ll guide foundation model management, safety, and governance tooling, while aligning initiatives across EY teams and the enterprise architecture council.