Senior AI Systems Architect for Regulated Enterprises

EY; Buffalo (NY); Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 329,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Pension and 401(k) plans

Paid time off options

Hybrid work model

Job summary

EY is seeking a senior, hands-on Distinguished Engineer to lead AI-native system delivery for regulated industries. You’ll bridge real-world delivery, architecture enforcement, and governance while driving scalable, repeatable enterprise patterns.

This role sits in the Advanced Forward Engineering team, partnering with Product Engineering, Product Architecture, and governance authorities to move AI from concept to production with speed, safety, and audit-grade rigor.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience 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 (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 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

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

System design

Education

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

Job description

EY is seeking a senior, hands-on Distinguished Engineer to lead AI-native system delivery for regulated industries. You’ll bridge real-world delivery, architecture enforcement, and governance while driving scalable, repeatable enterprise patterns.

This role sits in the Advanced Forward Engineering team, partnering with Product Engineering, Product Architecture, and governance authorities to move AI from concept to production with speed, safety, and audit-grade rigor.