AI-Driven Solutions Architect, Managed Services

EY; Detroit (MI); Remote; USD 139,000 - 255,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Certification support

Hands-on ownership

Global Engineering expertise

Job summary

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

Responsibilities include defining reference architectures, ADRs, and non-functional requirements, while leading client workshops and ensuring secure, scalable, production-ready solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline.
• Typically 8+ years in engineering and solution architecture roles.
• 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.
• 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 software engineering

Cloud architecture

AI-enabled delivery

Architectural patterns

Code review & mentoring

Education

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

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

CI/CD pipelines

Containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)

Job description

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

Responsibilities include defining reference architectures, ADRs, and non-functional requirements, while leading client workshops and ensuring secure, scalable, production-ready solutions.