Financial Services Organization- Tax - Engineering Manager - Hands-On-Agentic SDLC - EDGE

EY · Philadelphia, PA · 5 days ago

On-siteAccounting$113k–$207k/yrFull-time

About the role

Join EY and help to build a better working world. As part of our Financial Services Organization (FSO), you will be part of a technology organization that develops and maintains innovative solutions for our client-serving Tax professionals.

Responsibilities

Contribute code weekly using agents; hands-on technical execution is a core responsibility of the role, not an optional activity
Own, version, and continuously improve the domain's agent operating instructions
Review pull requests and provide timely, actionable technical feedback
Directly remediate, ship, and manage the team's technical debt backlog rather than solely delegating it
Leverage agentic SDLC practices to increase throughput on bounded components with well-defined interfaces
Keep coordination lean and outcome-focused, identifying dependencies and risks early
Serve as the primary owner of the team's technical direction, architecture decisions, and long-term technical health
Define and drive the technical roadmap, balancing new feature delivery, modernization initiatives, and technical debt reduction
Hire engineers for the team and maintain a high bar for technical talent
Evaluate and develop engineers through regular feedback, coaching, and growth planning
Coach the team to work effectively and responsibly with AI agents
Uphold engineering principles across the full software lifecycle, including design, development, testing, release, and operations
Apply documented verification protocols appropriate to each artifact type, including code, tests, documentation, and infrastructure
Run evaluations prior to merge and retain human-controlled approval and merge authority for production branches
Maintain strong automated test coverage across unit, integration, and end-to-end testing
Track and report key engineering metrics, including required reporting to Atlassian Compass
Facilitate bi-weekly demonstrations from the cloud environment, showcasing both product capabilities and agent-assisted workflows
Partner closely with the dedicated production support organization, which owns frontline product operations
Reduce operational toil through automation, including agent-assisted workflows where appropriate
Implement explicit guardrails, blast-radius controls, and audit trails for all production-impacting automation
Maintain an up-to-date inventory of WIZ Critical and Major findings and ensure timely remediation within established SLAs

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree required (4-year degree) in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, Economics or a master’s degree in Accounting, Tax Technology, Management Information Systems, or Computer Science or related field
No less than 5 - 7 years relevant experience
One of the following certifications: CPA, EA, JD, Master’s degree in business administration, finance, economics, computer science, information systems or engineering, Quantitative Economics or Quants
Exposure to the financial services industry, accounting/finance/tax, tax or finance performance improvement, tax software development and/or implementation
Ability to take ownership of assigned tasks and monitoring them until completion, including documenting requirements, configuration, testing, debugging, project profitability, and tax systems and process configuration
Familiarity with delivery and security tools such as GitHub, GitHub Actions, Atlassian Suite, SonarQube, Mend, Aqua Trivy, and WIZ
Experience working in a microfrontends environment is a strong nice to have
Strong understanding of component life cycles, unit testing, and resolving complex issues in full-stack development

Qualifications

Strong proficiency in Python / Node / React stack for new development
Experience maintaining and modernizing existing .NET / C# services and Angular frontends
Demonstrated hands-on experience applying agentic SDLC in real production delivery workflows
Proven ownership of the full development loop (build, test, release, operate, and iterate)
Extensive experience with cloud-native applications on Azure (AWS and GCP experience is also acceptable)
Hands-on experience with containerized workloads and orchestration
Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Bicep, Terraform, Pulumi, or AWS CDK
In-depth knowledge of test automation (unit, integration, e2e)
Hands-on experience with CI/CD automation, required for full-stack delivery in this role
Demonstrated ability to solve complex technical problems and make significant technical contributions
Proven track record of owning technical direction, architecture decisions, and a long-term technical roadmap
Excellent communication skills and the ability to articulate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
A genuine appetite for building with a small team and agents, and for continuous learning

Skills and Attributes

Experienced tech lead who has led at least one team, ready to step into hands-on engineering management, including hiring and evaluating engineers, while continuing to build daily
Strong proficiency in Python / Node / React stack for new development
Experience maintaining and modernizing existing .NET / C# services and Angular frontends
Demonstrated hands-on experience applying agentic SDLC in real production delivery workflows
Proven ownership of the full development loop (build, test, release, operate, and iterate)
Extensive experience with cloud-native applications on Azure (AWS and GCP experience is also acceptable)
Hands-on experience with containerized workloads and orchestration
Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Bicep, Terraform, Pulumi, or AWS CDK
In-depth knowledge of test automation (unit, integration, e2e)
Hands-on experience with CI/CD automation, required for full-stack delivery in this role
Demonstrated ability to solve complex technical problems and make significant technical contributions
Proven track record of owning technical direction, architecture decisions, and a long-term technical roadmap
Excellent communication skills and the ability to articulate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
A genuine appetite for building with a small team and agents, and for continuous learning

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 $112,900 to $207,200. The base salary range for New York City Metro Area, Washington State and California (excluding Sacramento) is $135,500 to $235,300. 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 base salary range for this job in all geographic locations in the US is $112,900 to $207,200. The base salary range for New York City Metro Area, Washington State and California (excluding Sacramento) is $135,500 to $235,300. Individual salaries within those ranges are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and geography.

Schedule

Our expectation is for most people in external, client serving roles to work together in person 60% of the time over the course of an engagement, project or year. Under our flexible vacation policy, you’ll decide how much vacation time you need based on your own personal circumstances. You’ll also be granted time off for 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.