AI Business Automation Architect

Our company is building an automation system for procurement and sales of aircraft components. The system automates the full RFQ cycle: receiving requests from the ERP, selecting suppliers, sending requests, processing replies with AI, generating quotes, and preparing commercial proposals for customers. The solution is already operating on real RFQs and commercial data. The next step is moving from automating individual operations to a governed decision\-making system that can independently handle a significant share of standard transactions and route only complex, high risk, and non standard cases to humans. The strategic goal is to evolve Banner Copilot into an AI\-supported operating and decision\-making layer for Banner Aircraft International. The platform should gradually automate standard account\-management and operational workflows, support management decisions with data\-driven recommendations, identify business and financial risks, and enable a leaner operating model over time. The platform should first provide decision support and next\-best\-action recommendations, and progressively take autonomous actions in clearly defined, low\-risk scenarios. Over time, it should help prioritize opportunities, support resource allocation, identify financing needs, assess risks around customers, suppliers, margin and cash flow, and recommend concrete management actions. **The role** ------------ We are looking for a hands\-on AI Business Automation Architect who can help develop Banner Copilot not only as a procurement and sales automation platform, but as an AI\-supported operating and decision\-making system for the company. The architect will work with the existing product and codebase, understand Banner’s operational and commercial processes, identify which activities and decisions can be automated, and help the engineering team bring practical solutions to production. This is not a purely advisory role. The architect must understand the existing codebase, participate in prototyping critical components, run architectural reviews, and work with the engineering team to bring solutions to production. The primary outcome of the role is not architecture documentation itself, but a working system that reduces manual account\-management and operational work, increases transaction\-processing speed, improves decision quality, identifies business and financial risks, and provides management with concrete, data\-supported recommendations. **Responsibilities** ==================== * **Product architecture** * Audit the current architecture * Identify which account\-management and operational functions can be fully or partially automated * Map the key operational and management decisions currently made by employees * Define the transition from decision support to controlled automation and limited autonomy Define the target architecture for the full cycle: RFQ Quote Sales Order Delivery Close Follow\-up* Management Recommenda