Senior Software & Platform Engineering Lead

EY; Cleveland (OH); Hybrid; USD 134,200 - 258,300; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Competitive compensation

Job summary

EY is seeking a senior engineering professional to lead delivery of complex solution and infrastructure projects. The role requires strong design, development, and maintenance of software and platform solutions, with emphasis on AI model integration, NLP tasks, and scalable architectures.

Ideal candidates bring 10+ years of relevant experience, mastery of CI/CD practices, and hands-on leadership across cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, IT, mathematics, or related field preferred.
• More than 10 years applied experience.
• CI/CD delivery using code management, configuration management and automation tools such as GitHub, ADO.
• Proficiency in fine‑tuning language models for specific tasks, including text generation, summarization, or question answering.
• Knowledge of embedding models and their application in NLP tasks like similarity matching, clustering, and information retrieval.
• Familiarity with designing and implementing agentic systems that combine AI models with external tools or environments for autonomous decision‑making.
• Ability to design robust evaluation frameworks for AI models and agents, including metrics development, A/B testing, and performance benchmarking.

Responsibilities

• Solves complex and escalated aspects of a project, performing coding, debugging, testing and troubleshooting throughout the development process.
• Provides advanced technical expertise to maximize efficiency, reliability and value from current solutions, infrastructure and emerging technologies, showing technical leadership and identifying and implementing continuous improvement plans.
• Develops strong working relationships with peers across Development & Engineering and Architecture teams, collaborating to develop and engineer leading solutions.
• Provides a leadership role for the work group, ensuring the appropriate expectations, principles, structures, tools and responsibilities are in place to deliver the project.
• Drives consistency to the relevant processes, procedures, standards, technical design whilst supporting the definition, maintenance and implementation of technology standard.

Skills

C#/Java/Python

CI/CD tooling

AI model tuning

NLP embeddings

Agentic systems design

Advanced debugging

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/IT/Math

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

GitHub

ADO

Job description

EY is seeking a senior engineering professional to lead delivery of complex solution and infrastructure projects. The role requires strong design, development, and maintenance of software and platform solutions, with emphasis on AI model integration, NLP tasks, and scalable architectures.

Ideal candidates bring 10+ years of relevant experience, mastery of CI/CD practices, and hands-on leadership across cross-functional teams.