Senior AI Systems Architect – Forward Engineering

EY; City of Albany (NY); Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 329,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Total Rewards package

Hybrid work model

Paid time off

Medical and dental coverage

Pension and 401(k)

Job summary

EY is seeking a senior Distinguished Engineer to lead AI-native system delivery in regulated industries. You will bridge deployment, architecture governance, and delivery outcomes across multiple client engagements, balancing technical judgment with client presence and enterprise patterns.

This role emphasizes durable, reusable patterns, cross‑cell leadership, and collaboration with Product Engineering and governance authorities to ensure safe, auditable AI deployments.

Qualifications

• 10+ years delivering complex AI enterprise systems.
• Experience with distributed systems and cloud platforms.
• Hands-on with AI-enabled stacks (agentic systems, orchestration).
• Forward-deployed or customer-facing engineering experience.
• Proven ability to create reusable technical patterns or platforms.
• Experience collaborating with architecture, product, and platform teams.
• Understanding of SDLC, 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 and reusable patterns.
• Work with AI agents to support regulated safe-to-ship decisions with technical evidence.
• Operate as a player-coach, guiding delivery teams toward repeatable approaches.
• Consolidate cross-cell signals into evidence-based recommendations for platform investments.
• Partner with Product Engineering and Product Architecture to package client patterns into technical business cases and backlog items.
• Participate in shaping sessions, architecture reviews, and prioritization discussions.

Skills

AI/ML

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Software delivery

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Orchestration frameworks

LLM-based services

Job description

EY is seeking a senior Distinguished Engineer to lead AI-native system delivery in regulated industries. You will bridge deployment, architecture governance, and delivery outcomes across multiple client engagements, balancing technical judgment with client presence and enterprise patterns.

This role emphasizes durable, reusable patterns, cross‑cell leadership, and collaboration with Product Engineering and governance authorities to ensure safe, auditable AI deployments.