Senior AI-Enabled Solution Architect (Managed Services)

EY; Birmingham (AL); Hybrid; USD 139,000 - 255,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Total Rewards package

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, write and review code, build proofs-of-concept and guide engineering teams through complex decisions.

The role emphasizes technical depth, engineering judgment and architecture ownership across build-and-run engagements in Digital Engineering Managed Services. EY offers hybrid work arrangements and a comprehensive benefits package.

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.
• Actively prototype and spike 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.

Skills

Hands-on engineering

Cloud-native design

AI-enabled delivery

Architectural judgment

Code review and guidance

Education

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

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, write and review code, build proofs-of-concept and guide engineering teams through complex decisions.

The role emphasizes technical depth, engineering judgment and architecture ownership across build-and-run engagements in Digital Engineering Managed Services. EY offers hybrid work arrangements and a comprehensive benefits package.