Senior AI Delivery Architect & Platform Lead

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

Benefits offered by this job

Total Rewards package

Hybrid work model

Paid time off

Medical and dental coverage

Pension and 401(k)

Job summary

EY in the United States is seeking a senior, hands-on Distinguished Engineer to lead the delivery of AI-native systems into regulated industries such as tax, finance, and risk. This role sits at the intersection of real-world delivery, architecture enforcement, and platform feedback, ensuring AI systems move from concept to production with speed, safety, and audit-grade rigor.

As a cross-cell technical leader, you’ll partner with Product Engineering and Governance authorities, translating field

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience delivering complex AI enterprise systems, ideally in regulated industries.
• Deep experience with distributed systems, cloud platforms, and integration-heavy architectures.
• Hands-on experience with modern AI-enabled application stacks (e.g., 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.
• 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

Tools

Cloud platforms

Orchestration frameworks

Job description

EY in the United States is seeking a senior, hands-on Distinguished Engineer to lead the delivery of AI-native systems into regulated industries such as tax, finance, and risk. This role sits at the intersection of real-world delivery, architecture enforcement, and platform feedback, ensuring AI systems move from concept to production with speed, safety, and audit-grade rigor.

As a cross-cell technical leader, you’ll partner with Product Engineering and Governance authorities, translating field