Forward-Deployed Data & AI Architect

EY; Warszawa; Hybrid; PLN 300,000 - 520,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Hybrid working

Private healthcare

Career counseling

Job summary

EY Poland is seeking a Forward-Deployed Architect in the Applied AI Engineering team to shape the technical direction of client projects across data engineering, AI/ML workflows, and agentic AI systems.

You will embed with clients and forward-deployed teams, making architecture decisions from day one and ensuring production-ready designs with governance in mind, including GDPR, DORA and the EU AI Act.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field and ~10+ years in software, data or AI engineering/architecture.
• Track record of designing solutions across data, AI/ML or agentic systems from concept to production.
• Strong architecture skills across cloud stacks (Azure/AWS/GCP) with hands-on coding ability.
• Solid data architecture knowledge: pipelines, lakes, warehouses and governance; familiarity with GenAI, agentic patterns, and guardrails.
• Experience making architecture decisions under time pressure in consulting/product/forward-deployed contexts.
• Excellent communication with technical and senior business audiences.

Responsibilities

• Embed with client and forward-deployed teams to shape architecture from discovery to first prototype across data/AI/ML and agentic systems.
• Make fast, pragmatic technology and design decisions under ambiguity for scalable outcomes.
• Define target architecture and a credible path to production for prototypes to production handoff.
• Ensure prototypes are built securely with data handling, lineage, guardrails and compliance early on (GDPR, EU AI Act, DORA).
• Evaluate and select tools/frameworks across data/AI stacks to fit the problem.
• Act as technical translator between business intent and forward-deployed teams.
• Manage and grow project blueprints and accelerators.
• Identify and communicate technical risk, cost and feasibility early to inform decisions.
• Partner with client enterprise/solution architects to align with standards and reference architectures.
• Present and defend the technical direction to senior client stakeholders.

Skills

Architecture design

Data engineering

AI/ML workflows

Agentic AI

Cloud platforms

Communication

Education

Master's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Azure OpenAI

Azure ML

Data Factory

Synapse/Fabric

Bedrock/SageMaker/Vertex AI

Job description

EY Poland is seeking a Forward-Deployed Architect in the Applied AI Engineering team to shape the technical direction of client projects across data engineering, AI/ML workflows, and agentic AI systems.

You will embed with clients and forward-deployed teams, making architecture decisions from day one and ensuring production-ready designs with governance in mind, including GDPR, DORA and the EU AI Act.