Strategic AI Architecture Lead – Foundation Models & Trust

EY; Orlando (FL); Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 329,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical & dental coverage

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Job summary

EY in the United States seeks a Senior Manager Architect to lead the design and implementation of AI architecture spanning knowledge, trust, and control/harness blocks across the enterprise. Focus areas include foundation model management, safety, agentic design, AI application integration, and future NLP/ VLM directions.

You will balance hands-on delivery with cross-functional coordination, ensuring enterprise AI adoption through robust compliance, monitoring, integration and control practices,

Qualifications

• 10+ years in enterprise architecture, governance, or compliance technology.
• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field.
• Knowledge of AI Foundation Model frameworks and major platforms.
• Experience with observability and governance tooling.
• Familiarity with agentic AI platforms (Nvidia, MSFT, Crew).

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

Strategic leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

AI governance

Enterprise architecture

Security & compliance

Communication

Hands-on delivery

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Master's or PhD in CS/EE/Math

Tools

NVIDIA AI Platform

Microsoft Azure

Crew AI Platform

Observability tooling

Governance tooling

Job description

EY in the United States seeks a Senior Manager Architect to lead the design and implementation of AI architecture spanning knowledge, trust, and control/harness blocks across the enterprise. Focus areas include foundation model management, safety, agentic design, AI application integration, and future NLP/ VLM directions.

You will balance hands-on delivery with cross-functional coordination, ensuring enterprise AI adoption through robust compliance, monitoring, integration and control practices,