Senior AI Architect & Delivery Leader

Ernst & Young Oman; Richmond (VA); Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 329,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Total Rewards package

Paid time off

Medical and dental coverage

Job summary

EY is seeking a senior, hands-on Distinguished Engineer to lead AI-native system delivery in highly regulated industries. You will bridge architecture, delivery, and governance while guiding multi-cell teams to produce auditable, repeatable solutions.

The role emphasizes client-facing leadership, strong technical judgment, and the translation of field realities into durable enterprise patterns, with a hybrid work model and generous total rewards.

Qualifications

• 10+ years delivering complex AI enterprise systems, ideally in regulated industries.
• Deep experience with distributed systems, cloud platforms, and integration-heavy architectures.
• Hands-on with modern AI-enabled application stacks (agentic systems, orchestration frameworks, LLM-backed services).
• Proven ability to operate in forward-deployed or customer-facing engineering roles, owning outcomes under real-world constraints.
• Track record of creating reusable technical patterns or platforms that scale beyond a single engagement.
• Experience collaborating closely with architecture, product, and platform teams.
• Strong understanding of software delivery lifecycle, quality gates, and production readiness in enterprise settings.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a cross-engagement technical authority, ensuring delivery implementations adhere to architecture intent, safety, and economic constraints in regulated environments.
• Synthesize learnings from multiple delivery cells into durable reference integrations, validated implementations, and reusable patterns that reduce repeated failure modes.
• Work with AI agents to support regulated safe-to-ship decisions by contributing technical evidence and validation inputs.
• Operate as a player‑coach, contributing directly to complex system design and implementation while guiding delivery teams toward consistent, repeatable approaches.
• Own the consolidation, prioritization, and communication of cross‑cell product signals, converting field observations and client‑specific adaptations into evidence‑based recommendations, distinguishing them from isolated customer requests.
• Partner with Product Engineering and Product Architecture to package consolidated client patterns into technical business cases, backlog candidates, and platform investment recommendations.
• Participate in shaping sessions, architecture reviews, and prioritization discussions, advocating changes that improve portability, operability, and customer outcomes.

Skills

AI/ML

Software Engineering

Systems Design

Security

Compute

Data

Networking

DevOps

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science

Job description

EY is seeking a senior, hands-on Distinguished Engineer to lead AI-native system delivery in highly regulated industries. You will bridge architecture, delivery, and governance while guiding multi-cell teams to produce auditable, repeatable solutions.

The role emphasizes client-facing leadership, strong technical judgment, and the translation of field realities into durable enterprise patterns, with a hybrid work model and generous total rewards.