Forward Deployed Engineer - Model Engineering - Senior Manager - Consulting - OPEN Location

EY; Phoenix (AZ); Remote; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

EY is building a world-class Artificial Intelligence and Data practice. You will join a forward-deployed engineering leadership team, sitting with clients and diverse EY teams to translate AI strategy into scalable, production-ready ML and AI solutions.

You will influence architecture, tooling, and deployment while driving measurable business value. You will lead lean, client-embedded teams, delivering impactful AI programs across complex environments, using cutting-edge tools and best practices

Qualifications

• Translate AI strategy and business needs into a scalable Model Engineering roadmap.
• Lead forward-deployed AI engineers and data scientists in end-to-end delivery of AI solutions.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to diverse teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead client-embedded AI engineering teams in diagnosing opportunities and shaping AI strategy at scale.
• Oversee end-to-end delivery of production-grade machine learning, generative AI, and agentic AI solutions.
• Stay current with AI tech trends and guide tool selection and architectural decisions.

Skills

AI strategy

Model Engineering

Team leadership

Client engagement

MLOps

Tools

Claude

Codex

Cursor

GitHub

MLOps tools

Job description

Location: Anywhere in Country

At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence.

We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go. Join EY and help to build a better working world.

EY delivers unparalleled cross functional tech consulting services in artificial intelligence, machine learning, generative AI, agentic AI, and cloud engineering. We always support and enable big ideas with the ambition to keep doing more. We leverage leading practices and a high degree of business acumen that has been compiled over years of experience to ensure the highest level of execution and satisfaction for our clients. Our Artificial Intelligence and Data team helps apply cutting edge technology and techniques to bring solutions to our clients. As part of that, you’ll sit side-by-side with clients and diverse teams from EY to create a well-rounded approach to advising and solving challenging problems, some of which have not been solved before. Come help define the future of AI.

The opportunity

EY is significantly investing in their award-winning AI, Data & Engineering practice. You will enter complex client environments, help clients identify high-value AI opportunities, and translate their ambition into working solutions at scale and drive better business outcomes. You will work with a wide variety of clients to deliver the latest data science and big data technologies. Your teams will design and build scalable solutions that unify, enrich, and derive insights from varied data sources across a broad technology landscape. You will help our clients navigate the complex world of modern data science, analytics, and software engineering. We’ll look to you to provide forward-deployed engineering leadership and consulting services to ensure AI solutions are shaped, engineered, deployed, operated, measured, and expanded to support the ongoing business needs of our clients.

This is a high growth area and a high visibility role with plenty of opportunities to enhance your skillset and build your career. We are looking for leaders who connect AI strategy and business value to hands-on engineering, deployment, operation, and scaling of AI and Machine Learning Operations capabilities.

Your Key Responsibilities

As a Forward Deployed Engineer Senior Manager, you will be joining a dynamic and interdisciplinary team of scientists and engineers who love to tackle the most challenging computational problems for our clients. We love to think creatively, build applications efficiently, and collaborate in both the ideation of solutions and the pursuit of new opportunities. Many on our team have advanced academic degrees or equivalent experience in industry.

You will be leading lean, client-embedded engineering teams working with a wide variety of clients to diagnose opportunities, shape, engineer, operationalize, prove value from, and scale their AI strategy at scale.

Skills And Attributes For Success

This role will work to deliver tech at speed, innovate at scale and put humans at the center. Provide technical guidance and share knowledge with team members with diverse skills and backgrounds. Consistently deliver quality client services focusing on more complex, judgmental and/or specialized issues surrounding emerging technology. Demonstrate technical capabilities and professional knowledge.

• Translating AI strategy, client process challenges, and value hypotheses into a prioritized, scalable Model Engineering roadmap that aligns with the client’s goals, mission, vision, and measurable outcomes
• Leading teams of forward-deployed AI engineers and data scientists in the end-to-end delivery of production-grade machine learning, generative AI, and agentic AI solutions while staying close to architecture and critical build decisions
• Staying abreast of AI technology trends and providing directional guidance and recommendations around AI-native development tools such as Claude, Codex, Cursor, and GitHub, as well as MLOps, LLMOps, and AgentOps tools and solutions that fit client needs and integrate with existing ecosystems
• Applying combined business, product, commercial, and technical knowledge to develop and execute ModelOps and agentic control-plane target architectures