Client Technology - Engineering - Architecture

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About the role

We are looking for a candidate who will be part of the Architecture team within the EY Client Technology’s Technology Strategy and Architecture (TS&A) function. The candidate will be responsible for defining and delivering architectures and designs for business-critical global products and platforms, hosted in a variety of infrastructure/environments considering reusability, scalability, and reliability in alignment with EY’s mission and strategy.

Responsibilities

• Build relationships across the business to understand their requirements, strategy, and help them build product/platform roadmaps. Demonstrate architecture leadership to translate business requirements into architecture blueprints, as well as innovative and practical design (both high and low level).
• Own the overall technology, architecture, and design landscape of the product/platform from solutioning to delivery to adoption and sale phases.
• Potentially lead a team of architects in a portfolio or large product, set the overall technology and architecture direction, and own its end-to-end delivery in a lead architect’s capacity. Provide constant architecture governance and guidance.
• Solve complex problems in realms where solutions may not currently exist, necessitating the ideation and incubation of new solutions/ways of working/technologies, technical feasibility and buy/build analysis, vendor product evaluations, proof of concepts (with hands-on), and presenting various options to the business with appropriate recommendations.
• Work very closely with multi-disciplinary teams (e.g., engineering, platform, infosec) to deliver the envisioned architectures and design using optimized delivery approaches, in compliance with enterprise standards, practices, policies, and guidelines.
• Provide leadership in product delivery to build and consume reusable functional and technical assets. Identify, define, and implement reusable assets and standards.
• Provide support to product and project managers in building the plans, forecast, estimations, and costs for new as well as existing products/platforms, to build the appropriate balance between costs, risks, and quality.
• Provide coaching, mentoring, and support to development teams during the delivery phase across the ecosystem, frameworks, and platforms. Ensure that the developed artifacts comply with envisioned architecture and design, expected quality, recommended standards/practices with code reviews, and various levels of architecture, design, and quality reviews.
• Contribute to architecture and development standards/guidelines to promote optimization and consistency.
• Work across multiple projects with varied stakeholders. Set architectural direction, build consensus, mediate conflicts, provide technical leadership, and advisory services to the business. Anticipate needs and potential objections, and help create an environment that solicits positive contributions from all participants.
• Demonstrate good interpersonal communication and organizational skills required to operate as a leading member of global, distributed teams that deliver quality services and solutions.
• Cultivate lasting relationships across business, IT, and vendors/industry analysts to maintain insight into the broader enterprise as well as industry trends. Understand new trends and emerging technologies, and how they apply to EY. Evangelize and encourage the importance of technical quality, emerging technologies, sharing & experimentation across the org through mentoring, hackathons, communities, etc.

Requirements

• Led and governed a global team of solution architects and technical architects, driving the technology and architecture landscape of large and complex portfolio of products/solutions/projects, achieving success in its implementation and adoption.
• Architecture leadership skills, advanced understanding, and practical experience of architecture role with proven track record in a complex, large-scale (team size in hundreds), global product/platform (user base in hundreds, thousands, and more) ecosystem across the entire lifecycle from planning to delivery to support/operations and adoption.
• Proven ability to work with business as well as perform hands-on technology delivery work in architect’s capacity using various architecture and design tools.
• Hands-on deep experience in one or more specializations of solution and technical architecture roles, e.g., application, infrastructure/cloud, integration, data, and security architectures, and successful delivery of functional as well as non-functional aspects of a product/platform using native cloud, full-stack application, data, security, AI technologies, following Agile, DevSecOps, and automation practices.
• Expert-level skills in defining, designing, and developing distributed and scalable products and platforms using reusable domain-specific composable (micro) services running on containers on multi-platform/hybrid clouds (Microsoft Azure preferred) using the respective cloud IaaS/PaaS/SaaS services.
• Expert-level skills in multiple application programming and scripting languages (JavaScript, .NET, Java, Python, C++, etc.), SQL and noSQL databases, Big Data and its processing, data analytics and machine learning, and industry-recommended authentication/authorization technologies. Microsoft and Azure-based technology skills are preferred.
• Ability to adopt and relate new technologies to the set of problems we face at EY while adhering to security and other EY standards.
• Understanding of business and organizational strategy and ability to communicate solutions, ideas, and suggestions to business partners effectively and comprehensibly.
• In-depth knowledge of various design patterns and architectural styles (e.g., traditional application-based as well as microservices and containers, event-driven, data streaming, data transformations, and analytics).
• Strong collaboration, analytical, interpersonal, and communication abilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Engineering, Computer Science, IT, Mathematics, or Economics.
• 15+ years overall IT industry experience, with 5+ years in a solution or technical architect role using service and hosting solutions such as private/public cloud IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS platforms.
• Achieved one or more of the typical solution and technical architecture certifications, e.g., Microsoft, MS Azure Certification, TOGAF, AWS Cloud Certified, Pivotal, CISSIP, Zachman, ITIL, Cisco, (ISC)2, CEH, SAFe, PMI, and SAP.
• Thought leadership - presenting ideas, products, concept papers to varied audiences, building point of views, and presenting them in industry forums/events.
• Experience in designing and implementation of business use-cases using low-code/no-code, Generative AI, data reporting, data management and governance technologies, mobile applications, deep cloud security concepts.

What We Look For

We want people who are self-starters, who can take initiative and get things done. If you can think critically and creatively to solve problems, you will excel. You should be comfortable working with culturally diverse outsourced on/offshore team members, which means you may need to work outside of the normal working hours in your time zone to partner with other Client Technology staff globally. Some travel may also be required, both domestic and international.

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. Individual salaries within those ranges are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills, and geography.

Benefits

• Medical and dental coverage.
• Pension and 401(k) plans.
• A wide range of paid time off options, including flexible vacation policy, designated EY Paid Holidays, Winter/Summer breaks, Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.

Schedule

Join us in our team-led and leader-enabled hybrid model. 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.