Nordstrom

Sr. AI Architect Finance - (Hybrid- Seattle, WA)

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Base Salary

$166k - $258k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and build end-to-end AI infrastructure for automated financial reporting, including agent orchestration, data pipelines, model integration, and human-in-the-loop review workflows.
  • Personally prototype and ship production-grade AI agents and pipelines using LLM APIs, retrieval systems, and workflow orchestration tools.
  • Partner with Finance leaders, FP&A, Controllership, Accounting, Data Platform, Data Governance, and Security teams to automate reporting workflows while meeting data classification, access, and audit requirements.
  • Define architecture standards and applied AI best practices, mentor engineers, and evaluate AI/ML tools, models, and platforms.
  • Build safeguards against model error, hallucination, and drift, and partner with Risk, Internal Audit, and Compliance on controls and regulatory expectations.
  • Support transparent documentation, stakeholder education, and phased rollout of AI-assisted financial reporting.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of software engineering, data engineering, or applied AI/ML experience, including production deployment of AI systems.
  • Deep hands-on expertise in LLM application design, agent orchestration and workflow frameworks, retrieval-augmented generation, and prompt/context engineering.
  • Strong data engineering fundamentals, including pipeline design, data quality, and integration with enterprise data platforms such as BigQuery or equivalent cloud data warehouses.
  • Experience with or ability to quickly learn financial reporting concepts and controls, including close processes, reconciliation, variance analysis, and GAAP-adjacent requirements.
  • Experience operating simultaneously as a technical architect and individual contributor who sets direction and builds systems.
  • Strong stakeholder communication skills for translating technical AI concepts to Finance leaders and Finance and control requirements to engineers.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; an advanced degree is preferred.

Benefits

  • Medical, vision, dental, retirement, paid time away, life insurance, disability coverage, merchandise discount, and EAP resources.
  • 401(k), paid time off accruals, holidays, and other benefits, subject to eligibility requirements.
  • Potential eligibility for performance-based incentives or bonuses.
  • Hybrid work arrangement requiring four days per week in the downtown Seattle, Washington office.

Tech Stack

Google BigQuery

Categories

AI ApplicationsData Engineering
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About Nordstrom

10,000+ employees

Nordstrom is a U.S. fashion retailer selling apparel, shoes, accessories, beauty, and home goods through department stores, off-price Nordstrom Rack, and e-commerce. Founded in 1901 and headquartered in Seattle, it is a public company (NYSE: JWN) serving consumers nationwide, with technology, merchandising, and supply-chain teams supporting its digital and in-store operations.

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