AI-Enabled Solution Architect Lead — Hands-On

EY; Jacksonville (FL); Hybrid; USD 139,000 - 255,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Medical and dental coverage

Pension and 401(k)

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 work across architectures, code, and PoCs, guiding engineering teams in modern, cloud-native environments.

The role emphasizes architecture ownership, use of AI accelerators, and collaborating with clients to ensure production-ready, secure, scalable solutions. EY offers hybrid work and a strong total rewards approach.

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.
• 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

Hands-on software engineering

Cloud-native architecture

AI-enabled delivery

Architectural leadership

Code review & QA

Education

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

Tools

Azure/AWS/GCP

Container platforms (Docker/Kubernetes)

CI/CD tooling

Job description

EY is seeking a hands-on Solution Architect to design, prototype and build AI-enabled applications and digital products. You will work across architectures, code, and PoCs, guiding engineering teams in modern, cloud-native environments.

The role emphasizes architecture ownership, use of AI accelerators, and collaborating with clients to ensure production-ready, secure, scalable solutions. EY offers hybrid work and a strong total rewards approach.