Senior Applied AI Engineer & Lead Architect

EY; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

EY is seeking a Senior Applied AI Engineer (Manager) to lead technical delivery across AI services, guide squads, and shape architectures for enterprise-scale, production-ready systems. The role spans financial services, public and private sectors, with hybrid travel within the UK.

You'll mentor engineers, drive Responsible AI practices, and contribute to reference architectures while advancing your leadership in a multidisciplinary engineering environment.

Qualifications

• Deep software/systems engineering (Python/TypeScript, distributed systems, CI/CD).
• Applied-AI expertise: LLM/RAG engineering; evaluation; telemetry/drift monitoring; versioning and release management.
• Cloud architecture (Azure/AWS/GCP), Kubernetes/Docker, serverless, IAM and network security.
• Data engineering depth (Spark/Databricks; ETL/ELT); cloud-native data + AI architectures.
• Enterprise integration and SRE principles (SLIs/SLOs, runbooks, rollback).
• Consulting leadership: stakeholder, budget and risk management; team leadership.

Responsibilities

• Shape engineering approaches; engage senior stakeholders; articulate trade-offs; ensure engineering quality across squads and complex client environments.
• Architect enterprise-grade AI services (agents, RAG pipelines, orchestration layers, platform components); ensure operational readiness; drive Responsible AI, evaluation and best practices.
• Mentor engineers; lead technical reviews; establish reference architectures and reusable accelerators; contribute to internal knowledge sharing and external thought leadership.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

Distributed systems

CI/CD

LLM/RAG engineering

Azure/AWS/GCP

Kubernetes/Docker

Serverless

Data engineering (Spark/Databricks)

Enterprise integration

SRE principles

Stakeholder management

Budget/risk management

Tools

Azure OpenAI Service

Python

TypeScript

Kubernetes

Docker

Spark/Databricks

Job description

EY is seeking a Senior Applied AI Engineer (Manager) to lead technical delivery across AI services, guide squads, and shape architectures for enterprise-scale, production-ready systems. The role spans financial services, public and private sectors, with hybrid travel within the UK.

You'll mentor engineers, drive Responsible AI practices, and contribute to reference architectures while advancing your leadership in a multidisciplinary engineering environment.