Senior AI Systems Architect & Forward Engineering Lead

EY; Miami (FL); Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 329,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Competitive compensation

Job summary

EY seeks 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 cross‑cell technical leadership role focuses on turning concepts into production with speed, safety, and audit‑grade rigor.

As part of the Advanced Forward Engineering team, you will operate with product engineering and governance, translating field realities into durable enterprise patterns while guiding delivery teams toward

Qualifications

• Deep experience delivering AI enterprise systems.
• Distributed systems and cloud architecture experience.
• Hands-on with modern AI-enabled app stacks (agentic systems, orchestration).
• Proven forward-facing engineering with client impact.
• Track record of reusable technical patterns or platforms.
• Experience collaborating with architecture, product, and platform teams.
• Strong understanding of delivery lifecycle and production readiness in enterprise settings.

Responsibilities

• Serve as cross-engagement technical authority ensuring architecture intent and safety in regulated environments.
• Synthesize learnings into durable reference integrations and reusable patterns.
• Work with AI agents to support regulated safe-to-ship decisions with evidence inputs.
• Operate as a player-coach guiding delivery teams toward repeatable approaches.
• Consolidate cross-cell signals into evidence-based recommendations for platform investments.
• Package client patterns into technical business cases and backlog items.
• Shape architecture reviews and prioritization discussions to improve portability and outcomes.

Skills

AI/ML expertise

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Orchestration frameworks

LLM-enabled services

Observability

Education

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

Job description

EY seeks 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 cross‑cell technical leadership role focuses on turning concepts into production with speed, safety, and audit‑grade rigor.

As part of the Advanced Forward Engineering team, you will operate with product engineering and governance, translating field realities into durable enterprise patterns while guiding delivery teams toward