AI-Enabled Solution Architect & Tech Lead

EY; Huntsville (AL); Hybrid; USD 139,000 - 255,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Total Rewards package

Paid time off

Job summary

EY is seeking an hands‑on Solution Architect to design, prototype and build modern AI‑enabled applications within Digital Engineering Managed Services. You will design architectures, write and review code, build proofs‑of‑concept, and guide engineering teams through complex decisions.

This role emphasizes technical depth, engineering judgment, and architecture ownership across build‑and‑run engagements. Expect cross‑functional collaboration, secure by design practices, and production‑ready

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline.
• 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 (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.
• Leverage AI coding and testing tools to accelerate development while enforcing clean architecture, security and maintainability.
• 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 up front.
• 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.

Skills

Hands-on coding

Architecture design

AI-enabled delivery

Cloud-native design

Code review

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Containers

Job description

EY is seeking an hands‑on Solution Architect to design, prototype and build modern AI‑enabled applications within Digital Engineering Managed Services. You will design architectures, write and review code, build proofs‑of‑concept, and guide engineering teams through complex decisions.

This role emphasizes technical depth, engineering judgment, and architecture ownership across build‑and‑run engagements. Expect cross‑functional collaboration, secure by design practices, and production‑ready