AI Automation Architect

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