Senior AI Platform Architect & Delivery Leader

Ernst & Young Oman; McLean (VA); Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 329,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Medical and dental coverage

Pension/401(k)

Generous paid time off

Job summary

EY seeks a senior, hands-on Distinguished Engineer to lead AI-native systems in regulated industries, bridging delivery, architecture, and governance. You’ll work with Forward Deployed Engineers and cross‑cell teams to move AI from concept to production with safety and audit-grade rigor.

This role partners with Product Engineering and Architecture to create reusable patterns, drive platform investments, and shape architectural decisions that improve portability and outcomes for clients.

Qualifications

• 10+ years delivering complex AI enterprise systems in regulated environments.
• Deep experience with distributed systems, cloud platforms, and integration-heavy architectures.
• Hands-on with modern AI-enabled stacks (agentic systems, orchestration frameworks, LLM-backed services).
• Forward-deployed or customer-facing engineering experience owning outcomes under real-world constraints.
• Track record of reusable technical patterns or platforms that scale beyond a single engagement.
• Strong collaboration with architecture, product, and platform teams.
• Understanding of software delivery lifecycle and production readiness in enterprise settings.

Responsibilities

• Serve as cross-engagement technical authority ensuring delivery adheres to architecture, safety, and regulation.
• Synthesize learnings into durable reference integrations and reusable patterns.
• Work with AI agents to support regulated safe-to-ship decisions with evidence and validation inputs.
• Act as player-coach, contributing to complex system design while guiding delivery teams.
• Prioritize cross-cell signals into evidence-based recommendations for platform investment.
• Partner with Product Engineering and Product Architecture to package client patterns into business cases.

Skills

AI/ML

Software engineering

Systems design

Security

Compute

Data

Networking

DevOps

Product intuition

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

Cloud platforms

Distributed systems

Job description

EY seeks a senior, hands-on Distinguished Engineer to lead AI-native systems in regulated industries, bridging delivery, architecture, and governance. You’ll work with Forward Deployed Engineers and cross‑cell teams to move AI from concept to production with safety and audit-grade rigor.

This role partners with Product Engineering and Architecture to create reusable patterns, drive platform investments, and shape architectural decisions that improve portability and outcomes for clients.