Senior AI Forward-Engineering Architect (Regulated)

EY; Wichita (KS); Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 329,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Medical and dental coverage

Pension and 401(k) plans

Generous paid time off

Job summary

EY is seeking a senior, hands-on Distinguished Engineer to lead the delivery of AI-native systems in regulated industries such as tax, finance, and risk. This role sits at the intersection of 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 will partner with Product Engineering, Product Architecture, and governance authorities while delivering durable

Qualifications

• 10+ years delivering complex AI enterprise systems in regulated industries.
• Deep experience with distributed systems, cloud platforms, and integration-heavy architectures.
• Hands-on with modern AI-enabled stacks (agentic systems, orchestration, LLM-backed services).
• Proven ability to operate in forward-deployed or client-facing engineering roles, owning outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a cross-engagement technical authority, ensuring delivery implementations adhere to architecture intent, safety, and economic constraints in regulated environments.
• Synthesize learnings into durable reference integrations and reusable patterns to 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 to complex system design while guiding delivery teams toward repeatable approaches.
• Consolidate cross-cell signals into evidence-based recommendations and platform investments.
• Partner with Product Engineering and Product Architecture to package client patterns into technical business cases and backlogs.
• Participate in prioritization discussions to improve portability, operability, and customer outcomes.

Skills

AI/ML

Software Engineering

Systems Design

Security

Compute

Data

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

EY is seeking a senior, hands-on Distinguished Engineer to lead the delivery of AI-native systems in regulated industries such as tax, finance, and risk. This role sits at the intersection of 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 will partner with Product Engineering, Product Architecture, and governance authorities while delivering durable