Senior AI-Driven Solution Architect for AI Apps

EY; San Mateo (CA); Remote; USD 139,000 - 255,000; Full time

Job summary

EY is seeking a hands-on Solution Architect to design, prototype and build AI-enabled applications and digital products. You will lead architecture across UI, APIs and data, prototype decisions, and drive AI accelerators in a managed services context.

You’ll collaborate with engineers to enforce clean architecture, security and reliability while shaping reference architectures, ADRs and deployment diagrams for production readiness.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline (or equivalent experience).
• Typically 8+ years in engineering and solution architecture roles, with 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 and AI components.
• Prototype solutions to validate architectural decisions early.
• Define reference architectures for AI-enabled products including RAG patterns and prompt orchestration.
• Author ADRs, sequences, deployment diagrams and non-functional requirements.
• Lead technical workshops and present trade-offs to stakeholders.
• Review AI-generated code, tests and documentation for correctness and risk.
• Guide teams on prompt design, context management and AI accelerators.
• Define performance, scalability, resilience, observability requirements.

Skills

Hands-on coding

Cloud architecture

AI/ML basics

Security by design

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

EY is seeking a hands-on Solution Architect to design, prototype and build AI-enabled applications and digital products. You will lead architecture across UI, APIs and data, prototype decisions, and drive AI accelerators in a managed services context.

You’ll collaborate with engineers to enforce clean architecture, security and reliability while shaping reference architectures, ADRs and deployment diagrams for production readiness.