Senior AI Systems Architect & Delivery Leader

EY; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 329,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Total rewards package with medical and

Flexible vacation policy

Job summary

EY seeks a senior, hands-on Distinguished Engineer to lead AI-native systems delivery in regulated industries. This role blends architecture enforcement with production-grade delivery for tax, finance, and risk sectors.

As part of the Advanced Forward Engineering team, you will drive reusable patterns, collaborate across governance and product teams, and mentor delivery cells while maintaining client focus and outcomes.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience delivering complex AI enterprise systems in regulated industries.
• Deep experience with distributed systems, cloud platforms, and integration-heavy architectures.
• Hands-on experience with modern AI-enabled application stacks (e.g., agentic systems, orchestration frameworks, LLM-backed services).
• Proven ability to operate in forward-deployed or customer-facing engineering roles, owning outcomes under real-world constraints.
• Track record of creating reusable technical patterns or platforms that scale beyond a single engagement.
• Experience collaborating closely with architecture, product, and platform teams.
• Strong understanding of software delivery lifecycle, quality gates, and production readiness in enterprise settings.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a cross-engagement technical authority, ensuring delivery implementations adhere to architecture intent, safety, and economic constraints in regulated environments.
• Synthesize learnings from multiple delivery cells into durable reference integrations, validated implementations, and reusable patterns.
• Work with AI agents to support regulated safe-to-ship decisions by contributing technical evidence and validation inputs.
• Operate as a player-coach, contributing directly to complex system design and implementation while guiding delivery teams toward consistent, repeatable approaches.
• Own the consolidation, prioritization, and communication of cross-cell product signals, converting field observations into evidence-based recommendations.
• Partner with Product Engineering and Product Architecture to package consolidated client patterns into technical business cases and platform investment recommendations.
• Participate in shaping sessions, architecture reviews, and prioritization discussions to improve portability, operability, and customer outcomes.

Skills

AI/ML

Software Engineering

Systems Design

Security

Compute

Data

Networking

DevOps

Client presence

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Orchestration frameworks

LLM-enabled services

Agentic systems

Job description

EY seeks a senior, hands-on Distinguished Engineer to lead AI-native systems delivery in regulated industries. This role blends architecture enforcement with production-grade delivery for tax, finance, and risk sectors.

As part of the Advanced Forward Engineering team, you will drive reusable patterns, collaborate across governance and product teams, and mentor delivery cells while maintaining client focus and outcomes.