Senior AI‑Enabled Solutions Architect (Managed Services)

EY; Cleveland (OH); Hybrid; USD 139,000 - 255,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Total Rewards package

Flexible vacation policy

Paid time off

Job summary

EY is seeking a hands-on Solution Architect to design, prototype and build modern, AI-enabled applications and digital products. You will lead architecture decisions while coding, reviewing, and guiding engineering teams across build-and-run engagements in Digital Engineering Managed Services.

You’ll shape reference architectures for AI-enabled products, ensure secure and scalable designs, and drive integration patterns, observability and reliability.

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 and runtimes.
• Prototype and spike solutions to validate architecture decisions early.
• Define and evolve reference architectures for AI-enabled products including RAG patterns.
• Author ADRs, sequence flows, deployment diagrams and non-functional requirements.
• Collaborate with engineers to set patterns, unblock delivery and raise technical quality.
• Review AI-generated code, tests and documentation; apply engineering judgment to validate correctness.
• Guide teams on prompt design, context management and reuse of AI accelerators.
• Define performance, scalability, resilience, observability and operability requirements.
• Design for reliability using SLOs/SLIs and incident readiness.
• Embed security-by-design, Zero Trust and Responsible AI controls.
• Ensure production-readiness with runbooks, automation and clear handoffs.
• Architect solutions for long-term managed operations, CI/CD pipelines and release automation.
• Balance speed of delivery with cost transparency and service SLAs.
• Lead technical workshops and communicate tradeoffs to stakeholders.

Skills

Hands-on engineering

Cloud-native design

AI-enabled features

Code, infra & pipelines

Technical communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Kubernetes

Job description

EY is seeking a hands-on Solution Architect to design, prototype and build modern, AI-enabled applications and digital products. You will lead architecture decisions while coding, reviewing, and guiding engineering teams across build-and-run engagements in Digital Engineering Managed Services.

You’ll shape reference architectures for AI-enabled products, ensure secure and scalable designs, and drive integration patterns, observability and reliability.