Senior AI Systems Architect for Regulated Industries

EY; Cleveland (OH); Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 329,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Total Rewards package

Flexible vacation policy

Job summary

EY seeks a senior Distinguished Engineer to lead AI-native system delivery in regulated industries, bridging delivery and architecture with governance and client-facing impact. You’ll guide cross‑cell teams, ensure safe-to-ship decisions, and drive reusable enterprise patterns for scalable outcomes.

You will operate in a hybrid client-focused environment, shaping architecture, product, and platform decisions while maintaining rigorous production readiness and audit-grade standards.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience delivering complex AI enterprise systems
• Deep experience with distributed systems, cloud platforms, and integration-heavy architectures
• Hands-on experience with modern AI-enabled application stacks (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 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

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Software engineering

Systems design

Security

Governance

Client engagement

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS

Job description

EY seeks a senior Distinguished Engineer to lead AI-native system delivery in regulated industries, bridging delivery and architecture with governance and client-facing impact. You’ll guide cross‑cell teams, ensure safe-to-ship decisions, and drive reusable enterprise patterns for scalable outcomes.

You will operate in a hybrid client-focused environment, shaping architecture, product, and platform decisions while maintaining rigorous production readiness and audit-grade standards.