Senior Manager, AI Knowledge Architecture

EY; Grand Rapids (MI); Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 329,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Pension plan

Paid time off

Flexible vacation

Job summary

EY is seeking a senior architectural leader to shape knowledge, retrieval, and grounding for AI products across enterprise information. You will build federated memory with clear ownership, provenance, and lifecycle rules while turning business questions into robust AI concepts.

You will guide lighthouse projects from prototype to production, partnering with security, privacy, and legal teams to enforce policy, and you will mentor engineers to scale shared capabilities across the organization.

Qualifications

• Enterprise data, knowledge, or platform architecture experience.
• Production AI, search, or knowledge systems ownership.
• Proficiency with SQL and at least one general‑purpose language.

Responsibilities

• Set architecture direction for knowledge, retrieval, and grounding for AI products.
• Design federated memory with durable interfaces and lifecycle rules.
• Translate business questions into concepts and boundaries for AI systems.
• Engineer reusable ingestion patterns preserving provenance and licensing.
• Lead lighthouse implementations from prototype to production.

Skills

Info architecture

Retrieval

Data engineering

Trust by design

Product mindset

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Tools

SQL

Graph databases

Python/Java

Job description

EY is seeking a senior architectural leader to shape knowledge, retrieval, and grounding for AI products across enterprise information. You will build federated memory with clear ownership, provenance, and lifecycle rules while turning business questions into robust AI concepts.

You will guide lighthouse projects from prototype to production, partnering with security, privacy, and legal teams to enforce policy, and you will mentor engineers to scale shared capabilities across the organization.