AI-Enabled Solution Architect - Hands-on Leader (Flexible)

EY; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 139,000 - 255,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Medical and dental coverage

Pension and 401(k)

Generous paid time off

Job summary

EY is seeking a hands-on Solution Architect to design, prototype and build AI-enabled applications and digital products. You will architect end-to-end solutions, review AI-generated artifacts and guide engineering teams through technical decisions in Digital Engineering Managed Services.

You will lead with architectural judgment, ensure security and reliability, and collaborate with client teams to deliver production-ready platforms.

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 runtimes.
• Prototype and spike solutions to validate architectural decisions early.
• Define and evolve reference architectures for AI-enabled products, including RAG patterns and vector search.
• Author ADRs, sequence flows, deployment diagrams and non-functional requirements.
• Work directly in codebases to set patterns, unblock delivery and improve technical quality.
• Review AI-generated code, tests and documentation for correctness and risk.
• Guide teams on prompt design, context management and reuse of AI accelerators.
• Define performance, scalability, resilience, observability and operability requirements.
• Design CI/CD pipelines and release automation with operational simplicity.
• Balance speed of delivery with cost transparency and service SLAs.

Skills

Hands-on engineering

Cloud-native design

APIs & data architectures

AI features development

Clear technical communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Containers

Job description

EY is seeking a hands-on Solution Architect to design, prototype and build AI-enabled applications and digital products. You will architect end-to-end solutions, review AI-generated artifacts and guide engineering teams through technical decisions in Digital Engineering Managed Services.

You will lead with architectural judgment, ensure security and reliability, and collaborate with client teams to deliver production-ready platforms.