AI-Driven Solutions Architect Lead (Hands-On)

EY; Jericho (NY); Hybrid; USD 139,000 - 255,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Medical & dental coverage

Pension and 401(k)

Job summary

EY is seeking a hands-on Solution Architect to design, prototype and build AI-enabled applications and digital products. You will lead architecture discussions, review code, and guide engineering teams in complex decisions within Digital Engineering Managed Services.

The role emphasizes technical depth, reference architectures, and building to run in client engagements across modern AI platforms. EY offers a hybrid work model and broad career growth opportunities.

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 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.
• Lead technical workshops with client architects and engineers; explain architectural tradeoffs clearly.

Skills

Hands-on software engineering

Cloud-native architectures

AI features (RAG/embeddings)

Code/infrastructure/pipelines

Technical communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Job description

EY is seeking a hands-on Solution Architect to design, prototype and build AI-enabled applications and digital products. You will lead architecture discussions, review code, and guide engineering teams in complex decisions within Digital Engineering Managed Services.

The role emphasizes technical depth, reference architectures, and building to run in client engagements across modern AI platforms. EY offers a hybrid work model and broad career growth opportunities.