AI & Data Forward Deployed AI Engineer, Senior Manager

Business Area:AI & Data - Forward Deployed AI Engineer Senior Manager

Contract Type:Full-Time Permanent

EY exists to build a better working world we empower our people by offering the culture tech teams scale challenges learning and the relationships for you to personalise and build your careerhelping to create long-term value for clients people and society and build trust in the capital markets.

This role canbe located inour offices acrossthe Republic of Ireland working across assurance consulting law strategy tax and transactions EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today.

The Team and the opportunity

As part of our AI & Data team this role is pivotal in enabling our clients to derive significant value fromAI. Through collaboration and domainexpertise our team embeds innovative AI & Data solutions into existing business areas transforming data into strategic assets. We are looking foraFoward Deployed AI Engineerwho is passionate aboutleveragingAI &data to solve complex problems and drive business outcomes.

Asa Forward Deployed AI Engineerat EY you will be aclient-embeddedtechnical leader responsible for translating AI ambition into trustedenterprise-gradesolutions. You will work closely with EY Partners engagement teams and senior client stakeholders to design build and deploy AI systems thatoperateeffectively within complex regulated and large-scale environments.

This role blends deep handson engineering consulting judgment and clientfacing delivery ownership. You will carry solutions from concept through production and enable clients to sustainablyoperateand evolve their AI capabilities.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Turn ambiguous business problems into concrete AI solutions by partnering with clients to understand workflows constraints success metrics and incentives

• Translate business challenges into well-scoped AI use cases (e.g. prediction automation retrieval agent workflows)

• Define MVP scope data requirements and evaluation criteria jointly with stakeholders

• Build fast prototypes using - LLMs RAG pipelines fine-tuning agents traditional ML models where appropriate

• Design and implement AI architectures including data ingestion feature pipelines embeddings vector stores model selection tuning and design guardrails and system instructions.

• Integrate AI components with existing client systems (APIs data warehouses SaaS platforms).Optimizefor latency cost reliability and scalability

• Deploy solutions into client infrastructure (cloud hybrid on-prem) navigating real-world constraints such as security compliance data residency legacy systems.

• Set up monitoring formodel performance and drift prompt failures hallucinations and regressions.

• Provide technical training and knowledge transfer to client teams

• Capture reusable patterns architectures and accelerators

• Contribute to internal playbooks and reference implementations

• Share lessons learned across engagements

• Support pre-sales with technical credibility and demos

• Stay current on fast-moving AI tooling and model capabilities

To qualify for the role you must have.

• 7 years for Senior ManagerofAI/MLengineering experience with strong fundamentals in data structures algorithms and system designwith Python in productionenvironments

• Deep applied AI/ML mastery: NLP/transformers generative models (GANs/VAEs) reinforcement learning classicalMLand statistical modelling.

• Advanced LLM/RAG engineering: prompt pipelines embeddings vector stores (FAISS/Milvus/Pinecone) hybrid retrieval grounding hallucinationmitigationand evaluation frameworks.

• LLMOps/MLOps: automated testing drift monitoring safety/guardrails CI/CD for ML telemetrylineageand governance.

• 7 years of experience with cloud platforms (Azure-preferred GCP or AWS) and modern data infrastructure

• Experience with containerization and CI/CD pipelines

• Proven ability to work withclientsin a technical consulting solutions engineering or product engineering role

• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to navigate ambiguous requirements and rapidly iterate toward solutions

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences

• Background in machine learning with hands-on experience training or fine-tuning models

• Relevant experience in consulting or industry with significant management experience

• Familiarity with enterprise security compliance and governance requirements(SOC 2 GDPR HIPAA)
• Demonstrated ability to leadmultidisciplinaryteams(engineering data science architecture product design) through complex delivery cycles.
  
  

Preferred Skills:

• Experience building and deploying AI agents or autonomous systems in production

• Experience inusingmodernPythonAIstack(e.g.LangChainLangGraphLlamaIndexFastAPI)

• Previouswork in a forward deployed field engineering or technical account management role

• Domainexpertisein verticals like finance healthcare government or manufacturing
  
  

What working at EY offers

We offer a competitiveremunerationpackage. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development and withFlexEYyou can select benefits that suit your needs covering holidays health and well-being insurance savings and a wide range of discountsoffersand promotions. Plus we offer:

• Support and coaching from some of the most engaging colleagues around

• Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career.

• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a waythatsright for you.

All our employees are given a benefits package which they can tailor to suit their individual preferences. Our range of benefits include:

EY is committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We strive to achieve the right balance for our people enabling us to deliver excellent client service whilst allowing you to build your career without sacrificing your personal priorities. While our client-facing professionalscan be requiredto travel regularly and at times be based at client sites our flexible working arrangements can help you to achieve a lifestyle balance.

Career Progression

• When you join EY you will be supported to ensure that you are enhancing your skills from day one.

• Continuous learning where you can develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.

• As you grow and develop here youll discover opportunities to help customise your career journey so that its as unique as you are - success is defined by you we will provide the tools and flexibility so you can make a meaningful impact your way.

• Transformative leadership we will give you the insights coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.

• Diverse and inclusive culture you will be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

• We have embraced Hybrid working at EY adding greater flexibility and autonomy to the roles of our employees.

About EY

As a global leader in assurance tax transaction and advisory serviceswereusing the finance productsexpertise and systemswevedeveloped to build a better working world. That starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training opportunities and creative freedom to make things better. Whenever you join however long you stay the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime.

Inclusion & Diversity

We hold a collective commitment to foster an environment where all differences are valued and respected practices areequitableand everyone experiences a sense of belonging: Inclusion diversity and equity are part of who we are at EY. We believe that the highest-performing teams maximize the power of different perspectives and backgrounds. These teams are both diverse and inclusive and are willing to invite and learn from other perspectives. Our ability to include various viewpoints into our mindsets behaviours and operations is fundamental to driving innovation building strong relationships and delivering the best solutions for our clients.

We recognise the strength that comes from having a diverse workforce and building a culture where we support all our people to achieve their embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

As an equal opportunities employer we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. Reasonable accommodations are offered at every stage of our recruitment process.

If you can confidentlydemonstratethat you meet the criteria above please contact us as soon as possible.

Join us in building a better working world.ThatsWhy EY.

Apply now.