Hands-On AI Solutions Architect Lead

EY; Hartford (CT); Hybrid; USD 139,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Flexible vacation policy

Total Rewards package

Certification support

Job summary

EY is seeking a hands-on Solution Architect to design, prototype and build AI-enabled applications within Digital Engineering Managed Services. You will architect end-to-end solutions, prototype with code, and guide engineering teams through complex decisions while owning architectural outcomes.

You will work in a hands-on capacity across AI components, APIs, data and cloud-native patterns, ensuring security, reliability and scalable delivery in a hybrid, national model.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline.
• Typically 8+ years in engineering and solution architecture roles.
• 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.
• Review AI-generated code, tests and documentation; apply engineering judgment to validate correctness and risk.
• Define performance, scalability, resilience, observability and operability requirements up front.
• 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.
• Guide teams on effective prompt design, context management and reuse of AI accelerators.

Skills

Hands-on engineering

Cloud-native design

AI-enabled features

Architecture ownership

Technical communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

CI/CD

Containers

Job description

EY is seeking a hands-on Solution Architect to design, prototype and build AI-enabled applications within Digital Engineering Managed Services. You will architect end-to-end solutions, prototype with code, and guide engineering teams through complex decisions while owning architectural outcomes.

You will work in a hands-on capacity across AI components, APIs, data and cloud-native patterns, ensuring security, reliability and scalable delivery in a hybrid, national model.