AI-Driven Solution Architect Lead, Managed Services

EY; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 167,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Job summary

EY is seeking a hands-on Solution Architect in the US to design, prototype and build AI-enabled applications and digital products. You will lead architecture decisions, code reviews and runbooks, while guiding engineering teams through complex technical choices in a managed services context.

Responsibilities include end-to-end architectures, ADRs, reference architectures for AI products, and strong collaboration with client teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline (or equivalent experience).
• Typically 8+ years in engineering and solution architecture roles, with recent hands-on delivery responsibility.
• Prior consulting or complex product delivery experience strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end architectures across UI, APIs, services, data, AI components, integrations and runtime platforms.
• Actively prototype and spike solutions (code, configs, pipelines, prompts) to validate architectural decisions early.
• Define and evolve reference architectures for AI-enabled products, including RAG patterns, vector search, prompt orchestration, evaluation and guardrails.
• Author Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), sequence flows, deployment diagrams and non-functional requirements.
• Work directly in codebases alongside engineers to set patterns, unblock delivery and raise technical quality.
• Leverage AI coding and testing tools to accelerate development while enforcing clean architecture, security and maintainability.
• Review AI-generated code, tests and documentation; apply engineering judgment to validate correctness and risk.
• Guide teams on effective prompt design, context management and reuse of AI accelerators.
• Define performance, scalability, resilience, observability and operability requirements up front.
• Design for reliability using SLOs/SLIs, telemetry, graceful degradation and incident readiness.
• Embed security-by-design, Zero Trust principles and Responsible AI controls into solution designs.
• Ensure solutions are production-ready with runbooks, automation and clear support handoffs.
• Architect solutions that transition cleanly into long-term managed operations.
• Design CI/CD pipelines, environment strategies and release automation with operational simplicity in mind.
• Balance speed of delivery with sustainability, cost transparency and service SLAs.
• Lead technical workshops and whiteboarding sessions with client architects and engineers.
• Explain architectural tradeoffs clearly to technical and semi-technical stakeholders.
• Support solutioning and proposals primarily through architecture design, estimates and delivery approaches.

Skills

Hands-on engineering

Cloud-native design

AI-enabled features

Code proficiency

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

EY is seeking a hands-on Solution Architect in the US to design, prototype and build AI-enabled applications and digital products. You will lead architecture decisions, code reviews and runbooks, while guiding engineering teams through complex technical choices in a managed services context.

Responsibilities include end-to-end architectures, ADRs, reference architectures for AI products, and strong collaboration with client teams.