AI Automation Architect

About this role

Reports into Ansira's AI Center of Excellence, based in Colombia. Leads the discovery, design, and deployment of mission-critical AI and automation workflows across the business, and manages a group of AI and automation developers. Partners closely with leadership, business stakeholders, the broader engineering organization, and the automation engineering team to turn business needs into scalable, well-governed automated solutions.

What You Will Do

• Lead discovery and opportunity assessment across business functions to identify high-value automation targets
• Own end-to-end architecture and technical design for automation and AI workflows, spanning multiple enterprise systems
• Set and enforce engineering standards — testing, observability, deployment, and governance — for the automation program
• Manage and mentor a team of AI and automation developers, setting technical direction and reviewing designs
• Translate leadership and stakeholder priorities into technical specifications, and technical tradeoffs back into business terms
• Design integration patterns connecting AI agents, RPA/automation platforms, and enterprise systems
• Partner with engineering, business stakeholders, and automation engineers to validate and prioritize solutions
• Own vendor/platform evaluation input and reusable component standards for the automation practice

Qualifications

• Required
• 5-7 years designing and leading automation/AI system architecture across multiple enterprise systems
• Programming experience in any coding language
• Demonstrated system design experience
• Strong software development practices (testing, CI/CD, code quality standards)
• Working experience designing and deploying agentic workflows
• Experience leading or mentoring engineering teams
• Proficiency in English
• Preferred
• Experience with enterprise integration patterns (APIs, microservices, cloud platforms)
• Experience establishing governance/CoE frameworks
• Experience supporting platform or vendor evaluation
• Skills & Mindsets
• Systems thinker who can architect across integrated platforms, not just build within them
• Strong communicator who bridges leadership, stakeholders, and engineers
• Entrepreneurial, fast learner, comfortable in a high-paced, ambiguous environment
• Simplicity and pragmatism — favors the straightforward, maintainable design over the clever one
• Strong value-delivery mindset — prioritizes shipped, adopted outcomes
• Comfortable setting and upholding AI governance/security guardrails for mission-critical systems
• People-leadership mindset — mentors and grows a technical team
• Comfortable operating with uncertainty and ambiguity
• Motivated by ambitious goals, not just incremental improvement
• Tools & Technologies
• AI agent tools: Claude, Claude Code, Glean
• Automation / low-code / no-code: UiPath, n8n, Zapier
• Architecture & integration: APIs, microservices, cloud platforms, MCP, SQL, SaaS integrations