Senior AI Knowledge Architect

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

Job summary

EY is seeking a senior architect to shape an enterprise knowledge platform for AI products and agents. You will own the target architecture, design a federated organizational memory, and lead lighthouse implementations from prototype to production while ensuring governance, provenance, and scale.

This Challenger program role involves cross‑functional collaboration across security, privacy, records, and legal teams, with up to 50% travel and hybrid office presence.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field of study.

Responsibilities

• Set the knowledge direction. Own the target architecture, roadmap, and decision principles for the knowledge, retrieval, and grounding capabilities used by AI products and agents.
• Design organizational memory. Create a federated approach that respects domain ownership while establishing shared meaning, durable interfaces, and clear lifecycle expectations.
• Translate business questions. Work with domain experts to define the concepts, relationships, and boundaries that AI systems need to interpret information accurately.
• Engineer trusted ingestion. Shape reusable patterns that bring varied sources into the platform while preserving authority, lineage, freshness, licensing, and uncertainty.
• Build effective retrieval. Combine search, semantic, graph, and structured methods based on the problem, making relevance, latency, cost, and explainability trade-offs visible.
• Make evidence inspectable. Ensure context includes citations, provenance, quality signals, and evaluation hooks so users and teams can understand why an answer should be trusted.
• Embed policy in the path. Partner with security, privacy, records, and legal teams to make permitted use, access, retention, and deletion requirements technically enforceable.
• Prove the architecture. Lead lighthouse implementations from prototype through production, using working systems to resolve choices and establish a credible path to scale.
• Operate and improve. Define service objectives, observability, incident learning, and quality measures that keep knowledge capabilities current and dependable after launch.
• Build shared capability. Create reference components and onboarding practices, mentor engineers and stewards, and guide cross-functional architecture decisions.

Skills

Information architecture

Retrieval expertise

Data engineering

Policy-aware architecture

Product mindset

Leadership

Travel flexibility

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field

Tools

SQL

Programming languages

Job description

EY is seeking a senior architect to shape an enterprise knowledge platform for AI products and agents. You will own the target architecture, design a federated organizational memory, and lead lighthouse implementations from prototype to production while ensuring governance, provenance, and scale.

This Challenger program role involves cross‑functional collaboration across security, privacy, records, and legal teams, with up to 50% travel and hybrid office presence.