Hands-on AI-Enabled Solutions Architect Lead

EY; Wichita (KS); Remote; USD 139,000 - 255,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Medical and dental coverage

Pension and 401(k)

Job summary

EY, a global professional services firm, is seeking a hands‑on Solution Architect to design, prototype and build AI‑enabled applications within Digital Engineering Managed Services. You will spend most of your time shaping architectures, writing code, and guiding engineering teams through complex decisions in a dynamic client environment.

You’ll define reference architectures, lead technical workshops, review AI‑generated code and ensure production readiness with security, reliability and cost

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Strong hands‑on background in software engineering and modern application architectures.
• Deep understanding of cloud‑native design, APIs, integration patterns and data architectures.
• Practical experience building AI‑enabled features (prompting, RAG, embeddings, evaluation).
• Comfort working directly in code, infrastructure and pipelines—not just producing diagrams.
• Clear technical communication and a bias toward building to learn.

Skills

Hands-on software engineering

Modern architecture design

Cloud-native architecture

AI-enabled development

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline

Equivalent experience

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

EY, a global professional services firm, is seeking a hands‑on Solution Architect to design, prototype and build AI‑enabled applications within Digital Engineering Managed Services. You will spend most of your time shaping architectures, writing code, and guiding engineering teams through complex decisions in a dynamic client environment.

You’ll define reference architectures, lead technical workshops, review AI‑generated code and ensure production readiness with security, reliability and cost