Senior AI Systems Architect for Regulated Enterprises

EY; Tucson (AZ); Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 329,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

401(k) plans

Paid time off

Job summary

EY is seeking a senior, hands-on Distinguished Engineer to lead the delivery of AI-native systems into highly regulated industries such as tax, finance, and risk. This role sits at the intersection of real-world delivery, architecture enforcement, and platform feedback, ensuring AI systems move from concept to production with speed, safety, and audit-grade rigor.

Unlike traditional architecture or product roles, the Advanced Forward Engineering (AFE) team is accountable for making AI systems

Qualifications

• 10+ years delivering complex AI enterprise systems.
• Distributed systems, cloud platforms, integration-heavy architectures.
• Hands-on with modern AI-enabled stacks (agentic systems, LLM-backed services).
• Forward-deployed or customer-facing engineering roles with real-world constraints.
• Proven ability to create reusable technical patterns or platforms.
• Experience collaborating with architecture, product, and platform teams.
• Strong understanding of software delivery lifecycle, quality gates, and production readiness.

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.
• 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 Eng

Systems Design

Security

Compute

Data

Networking

DevOps

Delivery strategy

Cross-functional

Executive credibility

Clear communication

Repeatability

Curiosity

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 the delivery of AI-native systems into highly regulated industries such as tax, finance, and risk. This role sits at the intersection of real-world delivery, architecture enforcement, and platform feedback, ensuring AI systems move from concept to production with speed, safety, and audit-grade rigor.

Unlike traditional architecture or product roles, the Advanced Forward Engineering (AFE) team is accountable for making AI systems