Client Technology - Engineering - Architecture

About the role

The opportunity involves being part of the Architecture team within the EY Client Technology’s Technology Strategy and Architecture (TS&A) function. The candidate will define and deliver architectures and designs for business-critical global products and platforms, 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, demonstrating 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, setting the overall technology and architecture direction and owning its end-to-end delivery in a lead architect’s capacity, along with providing 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 designs using optimized delivery approaches, in compliance to enterprise standards, practices, policies, and guidelines.
• Provide leadership in product delivery to build and consume reusable functional and technical assets. Identify, define, and implement the reusable assets and standards.
• Provide support to product and project managers in building the plans, forecasts, 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 to 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.
• Have the ability to work across multiple projects with varied stakeholders. An architect sets architectural direction, builds consensus, mediates conflicts, providing technical leadership and advisory services to the business. He/she anticipates needs and potential objections and helps to create an environment which solicits positive contributions from all participants.
• Demonstrate good interpersonal communication and organizational skills that are 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/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 portfolios of products/solutions/projects, achieving success in its implementation and adoption.
• 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 of one or more specialization of solution and technical architecture role 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, Bigdata and its processing, Data analytics and Machine Learning, Industry’s 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, 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, 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 etc.
• Thought leadership - presenting ideas, products, concept papers to varied audiences, building points of view 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.

Skills and attributes for success

• Led and governed a global team of solution architects and technical architects, driving the technology and architecture landscape of large and complex portfolios of products/solutions/projects, achieving success in its implementation and adoption.
• 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 of one or more specialization of solution and technical architecture role 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, Bigdata and its processing, Data analytics and Machine Learning, Industry’s 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, 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.

Benefits

At EY, we offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package where you'll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to the business. 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.

Pay

The compensation ranges below are provided in order to comply with United States pay transparency laws. Other geographies will follow their local salary guidelines, which may not be a direct conversion of published US salary ranges. At EY, we’ll develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world-class experiences. We’ll empower you in a flexible environment, and fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams. Learn more.

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.