Senior Manager - AI / Automation Architect

Work you'll do

• Technical Vision & Architecture
• Own the end-to-end technical architecture for the Finance Operate Platform, spanning across our overall consulting wide delivery platform, offering delivery portal, and sub-offering accelerators.
• Define and enforce build-versus-buy decisions across agentic AI, RPA, workflow automation, data/analytics, and alliance integrations.
• Lead design of multi-agent AI architectures, LLM/RAG pipelines, and agentic workflow orchestration aligned to Finance Operate use cases.
• Establish reusable patterns, technical standards, and guardrails that can be applied consistently across Controllership, Treasury, and FP&A sub-offerings.
• Execution Leadership
• Lead internal stakeholder and client conversations on agentic delivery strategy, platform capabilities, and technology roadmap (primarily for internal firm leadership with some nuances for client facing conversations).
• Partner with offshore Solution Architect and cross-functional teams to translate platform strategy into executable delivery plans.
• Provide technical oversight across concurrent workstreams; identify and resolve architectural dependencies and delivery risks proactively.
• Guide Agile/Scaled Agile planning and engineering practices across the Tech Enablement team.
• Platform & Innovation
• Evaluate emerging AI/ML, agentic framework, and automation technologies and make recommendations for adoption within the Finance Operate service catalog.
• Drive development and operationalization of AI-powered POCs demonstrating value in finance service automation, including journal entry validation, reconciliation, forecasting, and exception management.
• Collaborate with Consulting delivery platform team leads on the Agentic Layer roadmap (Phase 1 ETL/data readiness and Phase 2 business process automation).
• Team & Stakeholder Engagement
• Mentor and develop engineers, consultants, and architects across the team.
• Present technical strategies and roadmap updates to senior internal and client stakeholders.
• Build trusted-advisor relationships with Finance Operate offering leadership and delivery teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or related field (advanced degree preferred).
• 10+ years of progressive technology delivery experience, including 3+ years in a senior architecture or technical leadership role.
• Demonstrated expertise in designing and deploying agentic AI, LLM-driven automation, and multi-agent systems in enterprise environments.
• Deep proficiency in Python, AI/ML model development, and workflow orchestration (LangChain, LangGraph, or similar frameworks).
• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP) for deploying AI and automation workloads.
• Strong knowledge of integration architecture, APIs, microservices, and CI/CD practices.
• Proven track record leading client-facing technical conversations and executive stakeholder engagement.
• Experience with Finance or ERP system contexts (Record to Report, P2P, Treasury, or FP&A) preferred.
• Ability to travel 25%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve.
• Limited immigration sponsorship may be available.