Strategic AI Architecture Leader & Enterprise Architect

EY; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 359,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Pension and 401(k) plans

Generous paid time off

Job summary

EY is seeking a Senior Manager Architect to lead enterprise AI architecture spanning Knowledge, Trust, and Control/Harness blocks. The role covers foundation model management, safety, agentic design, and NLP/ VLM integration across the enterprise.

The ideal candidate balances hands-on development with strategic oversight, ensuring robust governance, monitoring, and compliant AI adoption across EY’s hybrid work environment.

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 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

Communication

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field

Masters or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or Mathematics

Tools

NVIDIA AI platforms

Microsoft AI tooling

Crew AI platforms

Job description

EY is seeking a Senior Manager Architect to lead enterprise AI architecture spanning Knowledge, Trust, and Control/Harness blocks. The role covers foundation model management, safety, agentic design, and NLP/ VLM integration across the enterprise.

The ideal candidate balances hands-on development with strategic oversight, ensuring robust governance, monitoring, and compliant AI adoption across EY’s hybrid work environment.