Client Technology Engineering Architecture

The opportunity

We are looking for a candidate who will be part of the Architecture team within the EY Client Technologys Architecture function. The candidate will be responsible for defining and delivering architectures and designs for business-critical global products and platforms hosted in a variety of infrastructure/environments considering reusability scalability and reliability in alignment with EYs mission and strategy!

Your key responsibilities

• Build relationships across the business to understand their requirements strategy and help them build product/platform roadmaps demonstrate architecture leadership to translate business requirements into architecture blueprints as well as innovative and practical design (both high and low level).
• Own the overall technology architecture and design landscape of the product/platform from solutioning to delivery to adoption and sale phases.
• Solve complex problems in realms where solutions may not currently exist necessitating the ideation and incubation of the new solutions/ways of working/technologies technical feasibility and buy/build analysis vendor product evaluations proof of concepts (with hands-on) and presenting various options to the business with appropriate recommendations.
• Work very closely with multi-disciplinary teams (e.g. engineering platform infosec) to deliver the envisioned architectures and design using optimized delivery approaches in compliance with enterprise standards practices policies and guidelines.
• Provide leadership in product delivery to build and consume reusable functional and technical assets. Identify define and implement reusable assets and standards.
• Provide support to product and project managers in building the plans forecast estimations and costs for new as well as existing products/platforms to build the appropriate balance between costs risks and quality.
• Provides coaching mentoring and support to development teams during the delivery phase across the eco-system frameworks and platforms. Ensure that the developed artifacts comply with envisioned architecture and design expected quality recommended standards/practices with code reviews and various levels of architecture design and quality reviews.
• Contribute to architecture and development standards/guidelines to promote optimization and consistency.
• Have the ability to work across multiple projects with varied stakeholders. An architect sets architectural direction builds consensus mediates conflicts providing technical leadership and advisory services to the business. He/she anticipates needs and potential objections and helps to create an environment which solicits positive contributions from all participants.
• Demonstrate good interpersonal communication and organizational skills that are required to operate as a leading member of global distributed teams that deliver quality services and solutions.
• Cultivate lasting relationships across business IT and vendors / industry analysts to maintain insight into the broader enterprise as well as industry trends. Understand new trends and emerging technologies and how they apply to EY. Evangelize and encourage the importance of technical quality emerging technologies sharing & experimentation across the org through mentoring hackathons communities etc.
  
  

Skills and attributes for success

• Architecture leadership skills advanced understanding and practical experience of architecture role with proven track record in a complex large-scale (team size in hundreds) global product/platform (user base in hundreds thousands and more) ecosystem across the entire lifecycle from planning to delivery to support/operations and adoption. Proven ability to work with business as well as perform hands-on technology delivery work in architects capacity using various architecture and design tools.
  Hands-on deep experience of one or more specialization of solution and technical architecture role e.g. application infrastructure/cloud integration data and security architectures and successful delivery of functional as well as non-functional aspects of a product/platform using native cloud full-stack application data security AI technologies following Agile DevSecOps and automation practices.
• Expert-level skills in defining designing and developing distributed and scalable products and platforms using reusable domain-specific composable (micro) services running on containers on multi-platform/hybrid clouds (Microsoft Azure preferred) using the respective cloud IaaS/PaaS/SaaS services.
• Expert-level skills in multiple application programming and scripting languages ( Java Python C etc.) SQL and noSQL databases Bigdata and its processing Data analytics and Machine Learning Industrys recommended authentication/authorization technologies.
• Microsoft and Azure based technology skills are preferred.
• Ability to adopt and relate new technologies to the set of problems we face at EY while adhering to security and other EY standards.
• Understanding of business and organizational strategy and ability to communicate solutions ideas suggestions to business partners effectively and comprehensibly.
• In-depth knowledge of various design patterns and architectural styles (e.g. traditional application based as well as microservices and containers event-driven data streaming data transformations and analytics)
• Strong collaboration analytical interpersonal and communication abilities.
  
  

Ideally youll also

• Bachelors Degree or equivalent in Engineering Computer Science IT Mathematics and Economics.
• 10 years overall IT industry experience with 3 years in a solution or technical architect role using service and hosting solutions such as private/public cloud IaaS PaaS and SaaS platforms.
• Achieved one or more of the typical solution and technical architecture certifications e.g. Microsoft MS Azure Certification TOGAF AWS Cloud Certified Pivotal CISSIP Zachman ITIL Cisco (ISC)2 CEH SAFe PMI and SAP etc.
• Thought leadership - presenting ideas products concept papers to varied audiences building point of views and presenting them in industry forums/event.
• Experience in designing and implementation of business use-cases using low-code/no-code Generative AI data reporting data management and governance technologies mobile applications deep cloud security concepts.
  
  

What we look for

We want people who are self-starters who can take initiative and get things done. If you can think critically and creatively to solve problems you will excel. You should be comfortable working with culturally diverse outsourced on/offshore team members which means you may need to work outside of the normal working hours in your time zone to partner with other Client Technology staff globally. Some travel may also be required both domestic and international.