Senior Manager, Forward‑Deployed AI Engineer (Consulting)

EY; Hartford (CT); Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 359,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Pension and 401(k) plans

Paid time off options

Job summary

EY is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer Senior Manager to lead lean, client-embedded teams in delivering AI solutions at scale. You will diagnose opportunities, shape strategies, and operationalize AI deployments across diverse client environments.

You will collaborate with data scientists, cloud engineers, and platform engineers to implement end-to-end AI workflows, maintaining governance and value realization for clients.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or MS in Business or Economics, Technology Entrepreneurship, Computer Science, Informatics, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Data Science, or Machine Learning.
• 8-10+ years of professional consulting experience in business or technology consulting or similar roles.
• 3-5+ years of experience directly managing technical teams and/or consulting teams.
• Experience using and managing the deployment of foundation models, generative AI, and agentic AI frameworks (OpenAI family, open source LLMs, Dall-e, Langchain, RAG).
• Experience with ML packages such as scikit-learn, PyTorch and ONNX, or related ML libraries.
• Proficiency with SQL, Pandas, and Spark; CI/CD and test-driven development; strong communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead lean, client-embedded engineering teams across multiple client engagements.
• Diagnose opportunities, shape, engineer, operationalize, and prove value from AI strategy at scale.
• Deliver production-grade machine learning, generative AI, and agentic AI solutions.

Skills

Leadership

Team leadership

Python

CI/CD & TDD

Communication

Travel willingness

Education

Bachelor’s degree or MS in relevant field

Tools

Git

Azure DevOps

Jira

MLFlow

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

EY is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer Senior Manager to lead lean, client-embedded teams in delivering AI solutions at scale. You will diagnose opportunities, shape strategies, and operationalize AI deployments across diverse client environments.

You will collaborate with data scientists, cloud engineers, and platform engineers to implement end-to-end AI workflows, maintaining governance and value realization for clients.