Senior AI Systems Architect for Regulated Enterprise Delivery

EY; Rogers (AR); On-site; USD 144,000 - 329,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Medical and dental coverage

Pension and 401(k) plans

Paid time off options

Job summary

EY in the United States is seeking a senior, hands‑on Distinguished Engineer to lead AI‑native system delivery into regulated industries such as tax, finance, and risk. This role blends delivery, architecture enforcement, and platform feedback to move AI work from concept to production with safety and auditable rigor.

You will work across cross‑cell teams, partnering with Product Engineering and governance to create reusable patterns, validate implementations, and guide delivery outcomes while

Qualifications

• 10+ years delivering complex AI enterprise systems in regulated industries.
• 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).
• Proven ability to operate in forward-deployed or customer-facing roles, owning outcomes under real-world constraints.
• Track record of reusable technical patterns or platforms that scale beyond a single engagement.
• Experience collaborating across architecture, product, and platform teams.

Responsibilities

• Serve as 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 that reduce repeated failure modes.
• 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 and client-specific adaptations into evidence-based recommendations, distinguishing them from isolated customer requests.
• Partner with Product Engineering and Product Architecture to package consolidated client patterns into technical business cases, backlog candidates, and platform investment recommendations.
• Participate in shaping sessions, architecture reviews, and prioritization discussions, advocating changes that improve portability, operability, and customer outcomes.

Skills

AI/ML

Software Engineering

Systems Design

Security

Compute

Data

Networking

DevOps

Education

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

Tools

Orchestration frameworks

LLM-backed services

Agentic systems

Job description

EY in the United States is seeking a senior, hands‑on Distinguished Engineer to lead AI‑native system delivery into regulated industries such as tax, finance, and risk. This role blends delivery, architecture enforcement, and platform feedback to move AI work from concept to production with safety and auditable rigor.

You will work across cross‑cell teams, partnering with Product Engineering and governance to create reusable patterns, validate implementations, and guide delivery outcomes while