AI Forward-Engineering Cell Lead for Regulated Enterprise

EY; Indianapolis (IN); Hybrid; USD 126,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Medical and dental coverage

401(k)

Job summary

EY, a global professional services firm, seeks a hands‑on Lead Forward Deployed Engineer to own end‑to‑end AI‑native system delivery for a single client in regulated industries. Embedded with the client, you will shape technical direction, manage tradeoffs, and lead a small cell to produce secure, production‑grade outcomes while staying hands‑on as needed.

Experience leading forward‑deployed teams, strong client presence, and deep technical judgment are essential to succeed in this client‑facing

Qualifications

• 8+ years delivering complex enterprise systems in regulated or client-facing contexts.
• Hands-on engineering depth across integrations, cloud, and distributed systems.
• Experience with AI-enabled application stacks (agentic systems, orchestration, LLM-backed services).
• Proven forward-deployed or solutions-architecture experience owning outcomes end to end.
• Ability to lead a small technical team while remaining an individual contributor.
• Strong stakeholder-management under pressure.
• Solid understanding of SDLC, quality gates, and production readiness.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end outcome delivery for the cell, including scoping, tradeoffs, technical direction, and production readiness.
• Embed directly with the client to define the real problem and translate ambiguous business needs into an executable technical solution under regulatory and environmental constraints.
• Serve as the primary technical interface and trusted advisor to client stakeholders, managing expectations, communicating tradeoffs, and sustaining trust.
• Stay hands-on, personally designing and building critical parts of the solution, and diving deep into the client’s systems, data, and codebase when needed.
• Deploy, adapt, and stabilize solutions in the client environment using supported templates and profiles, owning release readiness and runtime accountability for what the cell ships.
• Direct the work of the cell’s Implementation Engineer and Data Engineer, ensuring integrations, orchestration, and data readiness come together into a coherent, production‑grade outcome.
• Ensure every deployment meets safety, integrity, and cost constraints, partnering with control authorities and the Distinguished AFE on safe‑to‑ship decisions for regulated environments.

Skills

Outcome ownership

Client presence

Hands-on engineering

Technical judgment

Communication

Autonomy

Regulatory awareness

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

Cloud platforms

Orchestration frameworks

LLM-backed services

Integration-heavy architectures

Job description

EY, a global professional services firm, seeks a hands‑on Lead Forward Deployed Engineer to own end‑to‑end AI‑native system delivery for a single client in regulated industries. Embedded with the client, you will shape technical direction, manage tradeoffs, and lead a small cell to produce secure, production‑grade outcomes while staying hands‑on as needed.

Experience leading forward‑deployed teams, strong client presence, and deep technical judgment are essential to succeed in this client‑facing