Lead AI Solutions Architect - Hands-On, Remote

EY; Indianapolis (IN); Remote; USD 139,000 - 255,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Certification support

Flexible vacation policy

Global opportunities

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 work across UI, APIs, data, AI components, and deployments, guiding engineering teams and owning architecture decisions.

You'll lead by building, review AI-generated code, define ADRs, reference architectures, and ensure production readiness with runbooks and security best practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline.
• 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 architectures across UI, APIs, services, data, AI components.
• Prototype 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 guide engineers to raise technical quality.
• 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 for reliability with SLOs/SLIs, telemetry, graceful degradation and incident readiness.
• Embed security-by-design, Zero Trust and Responsible AI controls.
• Ensure solutions are production-ready with runbooks, automation and handoffs.
• Architect solutions that transition cleanly into long-term managed operations.
• Design CI/CD pipelines, environment strategies and release automation.
• Balance speed of delivery with cost transparency and service SLAs.
• Lead client workshops and explain architectural tradeoffs to stakeholders.
• Support solutioning and proposals through architecture design, estimates and delivery approaches.

Skills

Software engineering

Cloud-native architecture

AI-enabled features

Code review

Technical leadership

Education

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

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

CI/CD tools

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 work across UI, APIs, data, AI components, and deployments, guiding engineering teams and owning architecture decisions.

You'll lead by building, review AI-generated code, define ADRs, reference architectures, and ensure production readiness with runbooks and security best practices.