Client Technology - Engineering - Architecture

About the role

We are looking for a candidate to join the Architecture team within EY Client Technology’s Technology Strategy and Architecture (TS&A) function. The role involves defining and delivering architectures and designs for business-critical global products and platforms, hosted in various infrastructure environments, with a focus on reusability, scalability, and reliability in alignment with EY’s mission and strategy.

Responsibilities

• Build relationships across the business to understand requirements and strategy, and help create product/platform roadmaps. Demonstrate architecture leadership by translating business requirements into architecture blueprints and innovative, practical designs (both high and low level).
• Own the overall technology, architecture, and design landscape of the product/platform from solutioning to delivery, adoption, and sale phases.
• Potentially lead a team of architects for a portfolio or large product, set technology and architecture direction, and own end-to-end delivery in a lead architect capacity, including architecture governance and guidance.
• Solve complex problems where solutions may not currently exist by ideating and incubating new solutions, conducting technical feasibility and buy/build analyses, evaluating vendor products, and presenting options with recommendations.
• Work closely with multi-disciplinary teams (e.g., engineering, platform, infosec) to deliver envisioned architectures and designs using optimized delivery approaches, compliant 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.
• Support product and project managers in building plans, forecasts, estimations, and cost analyses for new and existing products/platforms, balancing costs, risks, and quality.
• Coach, mentor, and support development teams during delivery, ensuring compliance with envisioned architecture, design, quality standards, and practices through code reviews and architecture/design/quality reviews.
• Contribute to architecture and development standards/guidelines to promote optimization and consistency.
• Work across multiple projects with varied stakeholders, setting architectural direction, building consensus, mediating conflicts, and providing technical leadership and advisory services.
• Demonstrate strong interpersonal communication and organizational skills to operate as a leading member of global, distributed teams delivering quality services and solutions.
• Cultivate lasting relationships across business, IT, and vendors/industry analysts to maintain insight into enterprise and industry trends. Understand and apply new trends and emerging technologies at EY.
• Evangelize and encourage technical quality, emerging technologies, sharing, and experimentation through mentoring, hackathons, and communities.

Requirements

• Led and governed a global team of solution and technical architects, driving the technology and architecture landscape of large, complex portfolios of products/solutions/projects.
• Proven architecture leadership skills with advanced understanding and practical experience in architecture roles within complex, large-scale (team size in hundreds), global product/platform ecosystems across the entire lifecycle.
• Ability to work with business stakeholders and perform hands-on technology delivery using architecture and design tools.
• Hands-on deep experience in one or more specializations of solution and technical architecture (e.g., application, infrastructure/cloud, integration, data, security) and successful delivery of functional and non-functional aspects of products/platforms using native cloud, full-stack, data, security, AI technologies, Agile, DevSecOps, and automation practices.
• Expert-level skills in defining, designing, and developing distributed and scalable products/platforms using reusable domain-specific composable (micro) services running on containers in multi-platform/hybrid clouds (Microsoft Azure preferred).
• Expert-level skills in multiple application programming and scripting languages (JavaScript, .NET, Java, Python, C++, etc.), SQL and NoSQL databases, Big Data processing, data analytics, machine learning, and industry-recommended authentication/authorization technologies. Microsoft and Azure-based technology skills are preferred.
• Ability to adopt and relate new technologies to EY’s challenges while adhering to security and other standards.
• Understanding of business and organizational strategy, with the ability to communicate solutions, ideas, and suggestions effectively.
• In-depth knowledge of design patterns and architectural styles (e.g., microservices, 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 of 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.
• One or more solution and technical architecture certifications (e.g., Microsoft, MS Azure Certification, TOGAF, AWS Cloud Certified, Pivotal, CISSP, Zachman, ITIL, Cisco, (ISC)2, CEH, SAFe, PMI, SAP).
• Thought leadership experience, including presenting ideas, products, and concept papers to varied audiences and industry forums.
• Experience designing and implementing business use-cases using low-code/no-code, Generative AI, data reporting, data management and governance technologies, mobile applications, and deep cloud security concepts.

What We Look For

We seek self-starters who take initiative and excel at critical and creative problem-solving. You should be comfortable working with culturally diverse, outsourced, on/offshore team members, which may require working outside normal hours in your time zone. Some domestic and international travel may be required.

Pay

The base salary range for this job in the US is $138,200 to $266,000. For New York City Metro Area, Washington State, and California (excluding Sacramento), the range is $165,800 to $302,300. Individual salaries are determined by factors including education, experience, knowledge, skills, and geography.

Benefits

• Comprehensive compensation and benefits package, with rewards based on performance.
• Medical and dental coverage.
• Pension and 401(k) plans.
• Flexible vacation policy, allowing you to decide how much vacation time you need.
• Paid time off for designated EY Paid Holidays, Winter/Summer breaks, Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence to support well-being.

Schedule

This role follows a team-led and leader-enabled hybrid model. Most people in external, client-serving roles are expected to work in person 40-60% of the time over the course of an engagement, project, or year.