Lead AI-Enabled Solutions Architect

EY; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 167,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

401(k) plan

Hybrid work model

Flexible vacation policy

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 lead architecture discussions, review code, and guide engineering teams through complex decisions, balancing speed with security and reliability.

The role emphasizes architecture ownership across build-and-run engagements, with a focus on cloud-native design, AI features, and scalable, production-ready solutions.

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.
• Prototype and spike solutions 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 ADRs, sequence flows, deployment diagrams and non-functional requirements.
• Work directly in codebases alongside engineers to set patterns and unblock delivery.
• Review AI-generated code, tests and documentation for correctness and risk.
• Define performance, scalability, reliability, observability and operability requirements.
• Architect solutions for long-term managed operations and release automation.
• Lead technical workshops and explain architecture tradeoffs to stakeholders.

Skills

Hands-on software engineering

Cloud-native design

AI-enabled features

Code, infrastructure, pipelines

Clear technical communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Containerized platforms

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 lead architecture discussions, review code, and guide engineering teams through complex decisions, balancing speed with security and reliability.

The role emphasizes architecture ownership across build-and-run engagements, with a focus on cloud-native design, AI features, and scalable, production-ready solutions.