Solution Architect - Senior Manager - Consulting - Location OPEN

At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence. We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go. Our purpose is to shape the future by building trust and confidence in the capital markets and economies worldwide. We develop outstanding leaders who deliver on our promises to stakeholders, playing a critical role in building a better working world.

About the role

The Platforms Practice specializes in mission-critical, intelligent platforms for the world’s most ambitious organizations. Using our product-driven, AI-centric approach, we empower organizations to build for the intelligent digital future. Our elite team of product leaders, data scientists, designers, and software engineers enables clients to solve their most complex product challenges and positively impact people and the world.

As a Senior Manager in Solution Architecture, you will drive the delivery of complex solutions aligned with strategic business objectives. You will manage budgets, oversee project delivery, ensure performance outcomes, and build and maintain valuable client and commercial relationships.

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of technical solutions, ensuring quality and managing operational risks.
• Engage in delivery leadership, project management, and client interactions across all project phases.
• Travel frequently to meet client needs and project requirements.
• Solve complex problems using proven methods and evaluative criteria.
• Influence policy and procedural changes with potential broad business impact.
• Provide direction and feedback to teams, contributing to performance evaluations and the hiring process.
• Partner with customer technical leads, client executives, sales teams, and partners to manage and deliver successful cloud solution implementations, serving as a trusted advisor to decision-makers.
• Own end-to-end architecture: from business requirements and conceptual design through delivery, production, and evolution.
• Lead and influence engineering teams without direct authority, providing technical guidance and setting architectural standards, patterns, and guardrails.
• Stay at the forefront of new modern technologies and bring them within the larger team.
• Ensure successful engineering delivery of assigned projects with hands-on involvement as needed.
• Work with the engineering team to package best practices and lessons learned into thought leadership and published assets.

Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree, with a preference for a Master’s degree.
• A minimum of 5 to 7 years of relevant experience.
• Proven experience architecting and delivering large-scale, highly distributed, cloud-native systems on AWS, Azure, or GCP, including responsibility for architectural decisions, trade-offs, and outcomes.
• Strong background in software engineering, with hands-on experience in at least two modern programming languages (e.g., Java, C#, JavaScript/TypeScript), and the ability to review, guide, and influence implementation quality.
• Deep expertise in software architecture and design principles, including microservices, event-driven systems, serverless, APIs, data architecture, scalability, resiliency, multi-cloud, and security-by-design.
• Experience designing and delivering AI/ML or LLM-based business solutions in production environments.
• Experience using AI-native tools to accelerate software engineering outcomes.
• Ability to communicate business needs in written and spoken form and translate them into technical solutions.
• High-quality organizational and leadership skills.
• Outstanding consulting, communication, and presentation abilities.

Skills

• Proven ability to manage and deliver complex solutions.
• Strong focus on maintaining quality and navigating operational risks.
• Capability to manage budgets and project delivery effectively.
• Experience in building and managing client and commercial relationships.
• Ability to travel as required for client engagements and project needs.
• Passion for delivering commercial software products and platforms to market.
• Deeply technical with a constant drive for learning.
• Ability to communicate clearly and efficiently with developers, clients, customers, partners, and executives.
• Fearless in getting “hands-on” with technology and execution.
• Strong understanding of modern software engineering processes.
• Deep understanding and interest in cloud and distributed systems architectures.
• Comfortable with ambiguity with a drive for clarity.
• Strong ability to adapt to changing technology landscapes and stay ahead of industry trends.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills to foster team collaboration and client trust.
• Proactive approach to problem-solving and decision-making.
• Experience in leading diverse teams in dynamic environments.

Benefits

At EY, we develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world-class experiences. We empower you in a flexible environment and fuel your talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams.

• Comprehensive compensation and benefits package where you’ll be rewarded based on performance and recognized for the value you bring.
• Medical and dental coverage.
• Pension and 401(k) plans.
• 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 to support your well-being.

Pay

The base salary range for this job in all geographic locations in the US is $151,500 to $346,000. The base salary range for New York City Metro Area, Washington State, and California (excluding Sacramento) is $181,800 to $393,200. Individual salaries within those ranges are determined through a variety of factors including education, experience, knowledge, skills, and geography.

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.