AI-Driven Solution Architect & Tech Lead

EY; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 139,000 - 255,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Total Rewards package

Medical and dental coverage

Pension and 401(k)

Job summary

EY is seeking a hands-on Solution Architect to design and build AI-enabled applications and digital products. You will prototype, review code, and guide engineering teams through architectural decisions in a managed services context.

The role emphasizes architecture ownership, security and reliability across build-to-run engagements with a focus on modern cloud-native patterns and responsible AI controls. EY supports flexible, hybrid work in a global, inclusive environment.

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 application 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.
• Review AI-generated code, tests and documentation; apply engineering judgment to validate correctness and risk.

Skills

Software engineering

Cloud-native design

AI features

Code review

Architecture ownership

Client collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Equivalent experience

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Containers

Job description

EY is seeking a hands-on Solution Architect to design and build AI-enabled applications and digital products. You will prototype, review code, and guide engineering teams through architectural decisions in a managed services context.

The role emphasizes architecture ownership, security and reliability across build-to-run engagements with a focus on modern cloud-native patterns and responsible AI controls. EY supports flexible, hybrid work in a global, inclusive environment.