AI-Enabled Solution Architect, Managed Services Lead

EY; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 139,000 - 255,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Pension and 401(k)

Flexible vacation policy

Hybrid work model

Job summary

EY is seeking a hands‑on Solution Architect to design, prototype and build modern, AI‑enabled applications and digital products. You will guide engineering teams, own architecture decisions and drive delivery in a trusted, secure environment.

You will work across UI, APIs, data and AI components, delivering scalable, production‑ready solutions with strong emphasis on security and reliability. EY offers hybrid work and a generous total rewards package.

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.

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.
• Guide teams on effective prompt design, context management and reuse of AI accelerators.
• Define performance, scalability, resilience, observability and operability requirements.
• Design for reliability using SLOs/SLIs, telemetry, graceful degradation and incident readiness.
• Embed security‑by‑design, Zero Trust principles and Responsible AI controls into solution designs.
• Ensure solutions are production‑ready with runbooks, automation and clear support handoffs.
• Architect solutions that transition cleanly into long‑term managed operations.
• Design CI/CD pipelines, environment strategies and release automation with operational simplicity in mind.
• Balance speed of delivery with sustainability, cost transparency and service SLAs.
• 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.

Job description

EY is seeking a hands‑on Solution Architect to design, prototype and build modern, AI‑enabled applications and digital products. You will guide engineering teams, own architecture decisions and drive delivery in a trusted, secure environment.

You will work across UI, APIs, data and AI components, delivering scalable, production‑ready solutions with strong emphasis on security and reliability. EY offers hybrid work and a generous total rewards package.