Senior Manager - AI Knowledge & Data Architecture

EY; Miami (FL); Remote; USD 144,000 - 329,000; Full time

Job summary

EY is seeking a senior architect to shape knowledge, retrieval, and grounding for AI products. You will own the target architecture, create a federated memory, and translate business questions into robust information ecosystems that scale across the enterprise.

You will lead lighthouse implementations, define service objectives, and partner with security, privacy, records, and legal teams to ensure compliant, scalable knowledge solutions in a hybrid, travel‑heavy role.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field.
• 9-12+ years of relevant experience.
• Substantial experience in data, information, solution, or platform architecture, including ownership of production AI, search, or knowledge systems.
• Enterprise delivery: A record of delivering a shared knowledge, search, graph, or grounded-AI capability across varied sources and organizational boundaries.
• Hands‑on technical depth: Practical fluency with semantic, graph, or retrieval technologies, strong SQL, and a general‑purpose programming language.
• Data integration: Experience designing pipelines that connect analytical, document, event, and operational information with clear production controls.
• Policy‑aware architecture: Evidence of implementing access, provenance, quality, and lifecycle controls through the production retrieval path.
• Architecture judgment: The ability to use prototypes and operational evidence to make sound trade‑offs rather than defaulting to a particular vendor or pattern.
• Cross‑functional leadership: Experience guiding complex decisions and raising engineering capability through influence, collaboration, and mentoring.
• Travel and On‑site requirements: This role requires up to 50% travel and flexibility to go into the office in a hybrid capacity.

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 depth

Trust by design

Product mindset

Influential leadership

Travel and On-site requirements

Education

Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field

Tools

SQL

Job description

EY is seeking a senior architect to shape knowledge, retrieval, and grounding for AI products. You will own the target architecture, create a federated memory, and translate business questions into robust information ecosystems that scale across the enterprise.

You will lead lighthouse implementations, define service objectives, and partner with security, privacy, records, and legal teams to ensure compliant, scalable knowledge solutions in a hybrid, travel‑heavy role.