GDS ConsultingDigital EngineeringCloud Infrastracture Architect

At EY youll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are with the global scale support inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And were counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself and a better working world for all.

Career Family Cloud Engineering
Role Type Senior Manager Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Role Rank 21

The opportunity
We are the only professional services organization who has a separate business dedicated exclusively to the financial services marketplace. Join Digital & Emerging Technologies Team and you will work with multi-disciplinary teams from around the world to deliver a global perspective. Aligned to key industry groups including Asset management Banking and Capital Markets Insurance and Private Equity Health Government Power and Utilities we provide integrated advisory assurance tax and transaction services. Through diverse experiences world-class learning and individually tailored coaching you will experience ongoing professional development. Thats how we develop outstanding leaders who team to deliver on our promises to all our stakeholders and in so doing play a critical role in building a better working world for our people for our clients and for our communities. Sound interesting Well this is just the beginning. Because whenever you join however long you stay the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime.
As an Infrastructure Architect within our Technology Consulting team you will play a key role in bridging the gap between business needs and technical solutions. Youll work closely with stakeholders to gather analyze and translate requirements into clear and actionable documentation that supports solution design development and delivery.
EY Digital & Emerging Technologies is a unique industry-focused business unit that provides a broad range of integrated services that leverage deep industry experience with strong functional capability and product knowledge. The Digital & Emerging Technologies (DET) practice works with clients to analyse formulate design mobilize and drive digital transformation initiatives. We advise clients on their most pressing digital challenges and opportunities surround business strategy customer growth profit optimization innovation technology strategy and digital transformation. We also have a unique ability to help our clients translate strategy into actionable technical design and transformation planning/mobilization. Through our unique combination of competencies and solutions EYs DET team helps our clients sustain competitive advantage and profitability by developing strategies to stay ahead of the rapid pace of change and disruption and supporting the execution of complex transformations.

Your key responsibilities

Requirements Gathering: Conduct interviews workshops and stakeholder sessions to elicit business and technical requirements.
Documentation & Analysis: Translate stakeholder needs into clear specifications functional documentation and create architecture design that guide solution development.
Development & Technical Skills: Ability to develop and execute code associated to technology infrastructure using latest tools and platforms. Ability to establish hyper-scaler platforms from scratch understanding the fundamental design principles to build best-practice and sustainable cloud infrastructure solutions
Validation & Testing: Develop test and validation frameworks to assess technical solutions against business requirements ensuring alignment and quality.
Risk & Impact Assessment: Analyze potential risks and impacts of proposed solutions contributing to informed decision-making and project planning.
Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with cross-functional teams including architects developers and business leads to ensure shared understanding and delivery of requirements.
Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to improve business processes and system functionality through data-driven insights and feedback loops.

Skills and attributes for success
Proven experience in business analysis within technical environments including system integration infrastructure cloud platforms or application development projects.
Proficiency in producing clear and comprehensive documentation including business requirements architecture diagrams/views functional specifications and process flows.
Hands-on experience in deploying cloud infrastructure and establishing cloud infrastructure platforms ability to work in Terraform.
Understanding of IT network topologies and its associated implications on establishing Hyperscaler platforms
Ability to design cloud infrastructure solutions which includes associated services like networking private endpoints function apps storage (blob) messaging (service bus / event grid) data stores (e.g. cosmos / SQL / postgres).
Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills with the ability to assess complex systems and identify gaps or improvement opportunities.
Understanding of core on-prem infrastructure platforms and services (AD Hypervisor platforms Application environment services Azure & AWS PaaS and SaaS offerings etc..)
Hands-on experience with Infrastructure migration with understanding of containerisation and integration designs
Able to produce solution and product design documentation.

Ideally youll have the skills and attributes below but dont worry if you dont tick all the boxes. Were interested in your aptitude attitude and willingness to learn.
A Bachelors degree in Information Technology Computer Science Software Engineering or a related field.
Experience in enterprise transformation system migrations or regulatory environments.
A proactive mindset and a passion for enabling technology-driven business outcomes.

What we offer
EY Global Delivery Services (GDS) is a dynamic and truly global delivery network. We work across six locations Argentina China India the Philippines Poland and the UK and with teams from all EY service lines geographies and sectors playing a vital role in the delivery of the EY growth strategy. From accountants to coders to advisory consultants we offer a wide variety of fulfilling career opportunities that span all business GDS you will collaborate with EY teams on exciting projects and work with well-known brands from across the globe. Well introduce you to an ever-expanding ecosystem of people learning skills and insights that will stay with you throughout your career.
Continuous learning: Youll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
Success as defined by you: Well provide the tools and flexibility so you can make a meaningful impact your way.
Transformative leadership: Well give you the insights coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
Diverse and inclusive culture: Youll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

About EY
EY Building a better working world

EY exists to build a better working world helping to create long-term value for clients people and society and build trust in the capital markets.

Enabled by data and technology diverse EY teams in over 150 countries provide trust through assurance and help clients grow transform and operate.

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.

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

The exceptional EY experience. Its yours to build.

EY Building a better working world

EY exists to build a better working world helping to create long-term value for clients people and society and build trust in the capital markets.

Enabled by data and technology diverse EY teams in over 150 countries provide trust through assurance and help clients grow transform and operate.

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.