Software Engineering Lead

Ernst & Young Advisory Services Sdn Bhd; Wrocław; On-site; PLN 260,000 - 420,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Continuous learning

Diverse and inclusive culture

Flexible leadership coaching

Technical leadership opportunities

Job summary

EY GDS Poland is seeking an Engineering Lead in Client Technology to drive the delivery of complex software and infrastructure projects. You will understand business needs, shape design and ensure high-quality execution across development teams.

You will apply advanced knowledge of C#/Java or Python, manage CI/CD pipelines, and contribute to AI/ML initiatives such as NLP tasks and agentic systems for autonomous decisions.

Qualifications

• Advanced design, development and debugging of software or platforms (business/technical impact).
• Experience with AI/ML tasks is a plus and knowledge of NLP tasks.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of solution or infrastructure development for complex projects.
• Own design, development, delivery and maintenance of solutions or infrastructure.
• Ensure requirements align with business and technical needs.
• Provide technical leadership and drive improvements across teams.
• Define and enforce technology standards and processes.

Skills

Advanced tech proficiency

C#/Java or Python

CI/CD tools

Fine-tuning language models

Embedding models in NLP

Agentic AI systems

Evaluation frameworks

Education

Bachelor’s in CS/Engineering/IT/Math

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

GitHub

ADO

Job description

Client Technology - Software engineering - Consulting - Engineering lead

Let us introduce you the job offer by EY GDS Poland – a member of the global integrated service delivery center network by EY.

The opportunity

• Leads the delivery of solution or infrastructure development services for a large or more complex project, using strong technical capabilities and outstanding hands‑on experience!
• Takes accountability for the design, development, delivery and maintenance of solutions or infrastructure, driving compliance with and contributing to the development of relevant standards.
• Fully understands business and user requirements and ensures design specifications meet the requirements from a business and technical perspective.

Your key responsibilities

• Solves complex and escalated aspects of a project, performing coding, debugging, testing and troubleshooting throughout the development process.
• Provides advanced technical expertise to maximize efficiency, reliability and value from current solutions, infrastructure and emerging technologies, showing technical leadership and identifying and implementing continuous improvement plans.
• Develops strong working relationships with peers across Development & Engineering and Architecture teams, collaborating to develop and engineer leading solutions.
• Provides a leadership role for the work group, ensuring the appropriate expectations, principles, structures, tools and responsibilities are in place to deliver the project.
• Drives consistency to the relevant processes, procedures, standards, technical design whilst supporting the definition, maintenance and implementation of technology standard.

Skills and attributes for success

• Advanced technical proficiency in designing, developing, and debugging solutions.
• Advanced knowledge of one or more of: C#/Java or Python.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, IT, Mathematics, or related field preferred.
• More than 10 years applied experience.
• Significant relevant experience in either an internal or external software or platform engineering role, or similar.
• Technical knowledge and experience in delivering software / platform engineering solutions (depending on specialism), providing comprehensive technical advice and handling user requirements.
• CI/CD delivery using code management, configuration management and automation tools such as GitHub, ADO.
• Proficiency in fine‑tuning language models for specific tasks, including text generation, summarization, or question answering.
• Knowledge of embedding models and their application in NLP tasks like similarity matching, clustering, and information retrieval.
• Familiarity with designing and implementing agentic systems that combine AI models with external tools or environments for autonomous decision‑making.
• Ability to design robust evaluation frameworks for AI models and agents, including metrics development, A/B testing, and performance benchmarking.

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Microsoft/Google/AWS certificates
• Delivery using modern methodologies.
• Significant proven experience in building applications using container‑orchestration systems like Kubernetes, and container engines like Docker.

What we look for

• A self‑starter, independent‑thinker, curious and creative person with ambition and passion.

What we offer

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.