Senior AI Platform Architect — Cloud & Delivery

EY; Akron (OH); Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

EY seeks a senior AI platform architect to lead Challenger’s next-generation services. You will shape a scalable AI platform across cloud and hybrid environments, balancing performance, cost, and reliability while aligning stakeholders on practical trade-offs.

In this role, you will mentor engineers, define durable patterns for repeated delivery, and drive secure, observable, high-uptime systems. Travel up to 50% in a hybrid office setup is expected.

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of distributed systems and cloud-native architecture.
• Knowledge of model serving, inference gateways, AI lifecycle automation.
• Ability to turn developer needs into self-service capabilities and roadmaps.
• Observability, SRE, performance, capacity, resilience, recovery, incident learning.
• Security, policy, delivery assurance, and traceable evidence in platform work.
• Clear communication and stakeholder alignment on complex trade-offs.

Responsibilities

• Set the platform direction including AI platform vision, reference architecture, roadmap, and non-functional standards.
• Run the platform as a product; define service tiers, golden paths, and measure adoption.
• Enable portable model access with gateways and stable contracts.
• Architect elastic foundations for compute, storage, and network for AI workloads.
• Automate the path to production with repeatable delivery patterns and controlled releases.
• Define trusted agent runtimes with secure execution patterns.
• Engineer for reliability with service objectives and observability standards.
• Make economics visible by correlating usage, performance, and quality signals.
• Guide strategic choices with build-versus-buy and portability decisions.
• Mentor engineers and strengthen architecture practices.

Skills

Systems architecture

AI platform depth

Platform product mindset

Operational excellence

Trust by design

Influential leadership

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field of study

Job description

EY seeks a senior AI platform architect to lead Challenger’s next-generation services. You will shape a scalable AI platform across cloud and hybrid environments, balancing performance, cost, and reliability while aligning stakeholders on practical trade-offs.

In this role, you will mentor engineers, define durable patterns for repeated delivery, and drive secure, observable, high-uptime systems. Travel up to 50% in a hybrid office setup is expected.