ASSURANCE MANAGED SERVICES SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT

About the role

The Global Solutions team at EY is expanding to support the growth of Assurance Managed Services. This team works closely with business domain leaders to shape, design, and commercialize managed services offerings.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Business Alignment Partner with business domain leaders within the EY Sub-Service Lines to understand strategic objectives, market opportunities, competitive positioning, and growth targets.
• Facilitate structured discovery sessions that ensure client, EY and third-party requirements are fully elaborated, captured and considered throughout the solutions development lifecycle.
• Translate the business strategy and requirements into clear managed services value propositions and solution architecture roadmaps.
• Design end-to-end managed services business architectures that incorporate standardized, scalable constructs that enable repeatability and margin optimization.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory, security, controls and risk frameworks where applicable (e.g. SOC1).
• Liaise with IT security, data security, quality and risk management, Independence and other stakeholders to ensure architectures, designs and operational services meet broader EY requirements and standards.
• Contribute to the design and development of the Managed Services Orchestrator Commercial & Financial Modeling support business case development including revenue projections, cost structures, margin modeling, and investment requirements.
• Align service design with target financial outcomes and go-to-market strategy.
• Contribute to pricing strategy, packaging, and monetization frameworks.
• Ensure solution and deal architectures are subject to robust cost and effort estimation, covering design, development, transition, operation, maintenance and deal exit costs.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration Work closely with Product, Sales, Delivery, Finance, Technology, and Operations teams (both internal, and alliance partners) to ensure architectural feasibility and execution readiness.
• Provide architectural leadership and input during engagement pursuits and client engagements.
• Provide direction, advice and support to organizational change, process and controls change management, and technology development teams during the design and build of solutions and services.
• Act as a trusted architecture advisor to executive leadership.

Qualifications

• Business + Service Architecture Lead: Minimum of a Bachelors-level qualification in Management, Finance or Accounting; Minimum of ten years’ experience in managing the end-to-end architecture for managed services and/or outsourced solutions; Certification in an Enterprise Architecture method such as TOGAF.
• Technology Architecture Lead: Minimum of a Bachelors-level qualification in Computer Science or Information Technology; Minimum of ten years’ experience of agile, iterative and conventional development methodologies and how to apply them to platform, transaction, transactional application and analytical systems development; Certification / experience of building solutions leveraging cloud (ideally Azure) and public SaaS platforms (ideally including SAP).

Skills and Attributes

• Clear communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively on specialist architecture with architecture professionals, Assurance SMRs, senior EY leaders and senior client stakeholders.
• Ability to lead and manage multi-disciplinary teams to analyze and solve business problems by bringing together members of our team with domain experts, alliance partners and leveraging EY’s vast and diverse network of professionals.
• Promised experience designing and commercializing managed services offerings.
• Strong understanding of business architecture frameworks (e.g., capability modeling, value streams, operating models).
• Demonstrated ability to translate market opportunity into structured service offerings.
• Experience supporting the build of financial models and supporting business cases.
• Experience working across multiple business domains (e.g., IT, digital, operations, infrastructure, industry verticals).
• Familiarity with enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF) and service management frameworks (e.g., ITIL).

Benefits

At EY, we offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package, including medical and dental coverage, pension and 401(k) plans, and a wide range of paid time off options.

Pay

The base salary range for this job in all geographic locations in the US is $138,200 to $266,000. The base salary range for New York City Metro Area, Washington State and California (excluding Sacramento) is $165,800 to $302,300.

Schedule

Our expectation is for most people in external, client serving roles to work together in person 40-60% of the time over the course of an engagement, project or year.