Senior AI Systems Architect for Regulated Enterprise Delivery

EY; Louisville (KY); Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 374,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Pension and 401(k) plans

Paid time off

Job summary

EY seeks a senior, hands-on Distinguished Engineer to lead AI-native system delivery into regulated industries such as tax, finance, and risk. You will bridge real-world delivery, architecture enforcement, and platform feedback to move AI systems from concept to production with safety and audit-grade rigor.

As a cross-cell technical authority, you’ll shape durable reference patterns, mentor delivery teams, and translate field observations into enterprise-ready solutions while partnering with

Qualifications

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

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 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, guiding delivery teams toward repeatable approaches.
• Consolidate and communicate cross-cell signals into evidence-based recommendations for platform investment.
• Partner with Product Engineering and Product Architecture to package client patterns into technical business cases and backlog candidates.
• Participate in shaping sessions, architecture reviews, and prioritization discussions.

Skills

AI/ML

Software Engineering

Systems Design

Security

Compute

Data

Networking

DevOps

Executive communication

Client presence

Education

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

Tools

LLM-backed services

Orchestration frameworks

Job description

EY seeks a senior, hands-on Distinguished Engineer to lead AI-native system delivery into regulated industries such as tax, finance, and risk. You will bridge real-world delivery, architecture enforcement, and platform feedback to move AI systems from concept to production with safety and audit-grade rigor.

As a cross-cell technical authority, you’ll shape durable reference patterns, mentor delivery teams, and translate field observations into enterprise-ready solutions while partnering with