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

Originally posted on Himalayas