Client-Facing AI Forward Engineering Lead

Ernst & Young Oman

Carson City (NV)

Hybrid

USD 126,000 - 230,000

Full time

14 days+
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Hybrid work model
Total Rewards package including health

Job summary

EY seeks a Lead Forward Deployed Engineer to own end-to-end delivery of AI-native systems within a client engagement. This hands-on role embeds with the client, leads a small cell, and drives production-grade solutions under regulatory constraints.

You will manage tradeoffs, interact with stakeholders, and stay hands-on across code, data, and environments to ensure safe-to-ship outcomes.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years delivering complex enterprise systems, ideally in regulated or client-facing contexts.
  • Hands-on engineering depth across integration-heavy architectures, cloud platforms, and distributed systems.
  • Experience with modern AI-enabled application stacks (e.g., agentic systems, orchestration frameworks, LLM-backed services).

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.
  • Serve as the primary technical interface and trusted advisor to client stakeholders, managing expectations and tradeoffs.
  • Stay hands-on, designing and building critical parts of the solution and diving into client systems when needed.
  • Deploy, adapt, and stabilize solutions in the client environment with release readiness and runtime accountability.

Skills

Strong outcome ownership
Excellent client presence
Hands-on engineering
Strong technical judgment
Effective communication of tradeoffs
Autonomy in small teams

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

Cloud platforms
Distributed systems
AI-enabled stacks

Job description

EY seeks a Lead Forward Deployed Engineer to own end-to-end delivery of AI-native systems within a client engagement. This hands-on role embeds with the client, leads a small cell, and drives production-grade solutions under regulatory constraints.

You will manage tradeoffs, interact with stakeholders, and stay hands-on across code, data, and environments to ensure safe-to-ship outcomes.

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