Senior AI Platform Architect - Cloud & Automation

EY; Jacksonville (FL); Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 329,000; Full time

Job summary

EY is seeking a senior architect to lead the AI platform strategy in a nationwide US context. You will blend systems thinking with code proximity, shaping durable patterns across cloud and hybrid environments while aligning executives on practical trade-offs.

The Challenger program drives next-generation services, building reusable production patterns and scalable tools. This role emphasizes collaboration across product, security, risk, procurement, and finance to deliver trusted, observable AI

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 9-12+ years of relevant experience.
• Substantial experience designing and operating cloud, infrastructure, SRE, or platform capabilities, including responsibility for production AI workloads.
• A record of building a shared platform adopted by multiple product teams, with measurable improvement in speed, reliability, or cost.
• Deep experience in at least one major cloud and strong judgment about portable patterns for hybrid or multi-cloud constraints.
• Practical depth in orchestration, networking, identity, infrastructure as code, delivery automation, APIs, and production observability.
• Experience operating model-serving and AI lifecycle capabilities, including release controls, evaluation, capacity, service objectives, and incident learning.
• Demonstrated ability to make build-versus-buy decisions and explain the operational, commercial, and technical consequences.
• Experience leading complex programs, influencing senior stakeholders, and mentoring engineers.
• Up to 50% travel and hybrid/in-office flexibility.

Responsibilities

• Set the platform direction. Own the AI platform vision, reference architecture, roadmap, and non-functional standards across cloud, hybrid, and approved edge environments.
• Run the platform as a product. Define service tiers, golden paths, roadmap priorities, and measure adoption and value.
• Enable portable model access. Design gateways and stable contracts supporting model choice and controlled experimentation.
• Architect elastic foundations. Shape compute, storage, and network for AI workloads balancing performance, cost, and resilience.
• Automate the path to production. Create repeatable delivery patterns with progressive release and evidence built into the process.
• Define trusted agent runtimes. Establish secure execution patterns for tools, identities, approvals, isolation, recovery, and replay.
• Engineer for reliability. Set service objectives, observability standards, recovery patterns, and resilience exercises.
• Make economics visible. Connect usage and quality signals to improve unit economics without harming reliability.
• Guide strategic choices. Lead build-versus-buy and portability decisions with cross-functional partners.
• Build capability. Mentor platform engineers and SREs and foster reusable production patterns.

Skills

Systems architecture

AI platform depth

Platform product mindset

Operational excellence

Trust by design

Influential leadership

Travel and On-site requirements

Education

Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field

Job description

EY is seeking a senior architect to lead the AI platform strategy in a nationwide US context. You will blend systems thinking with code proximity, shaping durable patterns across cloud and hybrid environments while aligning executives on practical trade-offs.

The Challenger program drives next-generation services, building reusable production patterns and scalable tools. This role emphasizes collaboration across product, security, risk, procurement, and finance to deliver trusted, observable AI