Join EY and help to build a better working world as a Forward Deployed Engineer - Applied AI - Senior Manager - Financial Services. Define and deliver AI system design principles, reference architectures, and engineering standards for complex AI/ML initiatives across the organization.
Requirements
- Define and govern system design principles, reference architectures, and engineering patterns for AI/ML, generative AI, RAG, and agentic systems.
- Lead the most complex and escalated technical challenges across multiple teams, providing hands-on guidance in architecture, coding, troubleshooting, and design remediation.
- Own end-to-end architecture for strategic AI initiatives, including service boundaries, orchestration models, data contracts, evaluation frameworks, and operational guardrails.
- Drive consistency in engineering standards, design reviews, architecture governance, observability, resilience, security, and responsible AI practices.
- Shape the enterprise integration model for AI/ML components within broader product, platform, infrastructure, and client delivery ecosystems.
- Define and evolve API and integration strategies for AI platforms and applications, including contract design, versioning, security, idempotency, and reliability patterns at enterprise scale.
- Lead large, complex project or program delivery outcomes by aligning architecture decisions, engineering execution, stakeholder governance, risks, dependencies, and delivery quality.
- Influence platform strategy, technical roadmaps, and investment decisions through deep engineering judgment and practical delivery insight.
- Partner with senior leaders across Engineering, Architecture, Product, Data, Security, Operations, and engagement leadership to align strategy with execution.
- Establish scalable approaches for model evaluation, benchmarking, experimentation, rollout controls, and production quality measurement.
- Mentor senior engineers and technical leads, raising the organization's bar for system design, technical depth, delivery rigor, and architectural decision-making.
- Use modern AI-assisted software engineering tools such as Claude Code, Codex, or equivalent agentic coding platforms to accelerate engineering design, implementation, and review practices.
- Identify opportunities to reduce duplication, accelerate delivery, and create reusable AI platform capabilities across the enterprise.
Benefits
- Comprehensive compensation and benefits package
- Medical and dental coverage
- Pension and 401(k) plans
- Paid time off options