About this role
<div> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go. Join EY and help to build a better working world.</span></p> </div> <div> </div><p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><strong>The </strong><strong>O</strong><strong>pportunity </strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Leads the delivery of solution or infrastructure development services for large or complex AI/ML initiatives, applying strong technical capability and hands-on engineering experience. Takes accountability for the design, development, delivery, and maintenance of AI-enabled solutions or infrastructure, while ensuring compliance with and contribution to relevant engineering standards. Understands <s>business and</s> user requirements and translates them into design specifications that are effective from both business and technical perspectives. Owns the implementation and integration of AI/ML capabilities into broader enterprise solutions, with a focus on reliability, scalability, user impact, and successful project delivery.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><strong>Your key responsibilities</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Manage design, development, testing, deployment, and support for production-grade AI/ML, generative AI, and intelligent automation solutions.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Manage complex technical problems through coding, debugging, testing, troubleshooting, and structured design remediation.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Manage build and integration of LLM, RAG, and agentic solution components into enterprise applications and platforms.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Contribute to system design across service boundaries, orchestration layers, data flows, security controls, and external integrations.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Lead workstreams or project delivery responsibilities through planning, coordination, execution oversight, issue management, and stakeholder communication.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Drive engineering quality through strong coding standards, CI/CD practices, automated testing, observability, and documentation.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Partner with Development, Engineering, Product, Data, Architecture, and engagement leadership teams to deliver high-value AI capabilities.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Improve performance, resilience, maintainability, and cost efficiency of deployed AI systems.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Participate in architecture and design reviews, providing thoughtful trade-off analysis and implementation guidance.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Use modern AI-assisted software engineering tools such as Claude Code, Codex, or equivalent agentic coding platforms as part of delivery leadership and engineering execution.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><strong>AI and Engineering Skills:</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><strong>Gen AI Foundational:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Ability to understand complex technical <s>business </s>challenges across banking, capital markets, insurance, and asset management and translate them into LLM-powered solutions that deliver measurable business value</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Practical experience leading and managing multi-disciplinary teams through the full AI product lifecycle — requirements, architecture, build, evaluation, and production handoff</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Demonstrated experience managing and mentoring teams of AI engineers and data scientists through the execution of specific business use cases, ensuring technical quality and delivery consistency across engagements</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Advanced hands-on software engineering proficiency in Python, with the credibility to guide implementation decisions as well as architecture across delivery teams</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Demonstrated experience <s>architecting and</s> delivering production-grade LLM applications including retrieval-augmented systems, agentic orchestration layers, and structured output pipelines at enterprise scale (e.g. LlamaIndex, LangChain, Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock)</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Strong knowledge of embedding models, vector search, semantic retrieval, and NLP similarity systems used in enterprise RAG and knowledge AI architectures (e.g. OpenAI Embeddings, Cohere Embed, Azure AI Search, FAISS etc.)</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><strong>Agentic and LLM Ops:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Deep expertise in LLM Ops practices including model lifecycle management, versioning, CI/CD for AI systems, deployment governance, and continuous improvement loops in production environments (e.g. MLflow, Azure ML, GitHub Actions, Kubeflow etc.)</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Execute on agentic system architecture including multi-agent orchestration, tool use patterns, memory design, and human-in-the-loop workflows for high-stakes production environments (e.g. LangGraph, AutoGen, Semantic Kernel, CrewAI, NVIDIA NIM etc.)</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Experience governing agent behavior in production environments including audit trail design, cost and latency controls, and reliability management across complex multi-agent pipelines</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Demonstrated exploration of new LLM techniques and emerging agentic patterns, with the ability to assess their applicability to client challenges and translate them into practical delivery approaches</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Experience defining and governing LLM evaluation frameworks across teams and engagements, ensuring consistent measurement of output quality, safety, and alignment with business requirements (e.g. RAGAS, DeepEval, Arize, Weights & Biases etc.)</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Ability to drive performance, resilience, maintainability, and cost efficiency improvements in deployed LLM and agentic systems, including post-deployment optimization and operational tuning</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><strong>Software Engineering:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Knowledge of MLOps practices for continuous integration and continuous deployment of AI systems in cloud environments, including containerization and orchestration for scalable and secure LLM deployment (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Kubeflow, MLFlow etc.)</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Experience governing API design standards for LLM and agentic systems including contract design, versioning, error handling, retry semantics, and decoupling of AI service consumers from internal model and workflow topology</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Strong system design capability across service boundaries, asynchronous workflows, data contracts, cloud-native patterns, and secure deployment models for AI-enabled applications</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Proficiency in containerization and orchestration for deploying and managing scalable LLM applications in production cloud environments (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, Azure Container Apps, AWS ECS etc.)</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Ability to collaborate with data engineers, ML engineers, and business stakeholders to align LLM solution design with enterprise data and technology constraints</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">. <strong>To qualify for the role you must have</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">A bachelor's or master’s degree</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Minimum of 6 years of applied engineering experience, including significant experience in AI/ML engineering roles.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><strong>Clear communicator</strong> able to explain complex AI system behavior and trade‑offs to technical and non‑technical stakeholders, including risk and compliance.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><strong>Strong ownership and accountability</strong>, taking responsibility for AI systems from design through production and issue resolution.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><strong>Collaborative and cross‑functional</strong>, working closely with engineering, product, risk, legal, and audit teams.</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><strong>Ideally, you’ll also have</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Experience advising clients on AI platform and infrastructure strategy including model access layer selection, build-vs-buy decisions, and integration with existing data and technology infrastructure (e.g. Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, NVIDIA AI Enterprise, Hugging Face etc.)</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Ability to quantify business improvement resulting from LLM solutions through defined evaluation metrics, performance benchmarks, and client-facing reporting</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Strong ability to design and govern model observability and monitoring strategies across engagements, covering output quality, behavioral drift, and multi-step agentic workflow tracing (e.g. LangSmith, Arize, Datadog, Azure Monitor etc.)</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Understanding of LLM fine-tuning methodologies and the ability to advise clients on when and how to apply them, including data preparation, training approaches, and post-training evaluation (e.g. LoRA, QLoRA, PEFT, NeMo Framework etc.)</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Experience leading controlled model rollout programs including shadow deployment, A/B testing, canary releases, and stakeholder sign-off processes with defined rollback criteria</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Familiarity with AI security risks specific to LLM systems including prompt injection, data poisoning, and model extraction, and the ability to advise on mitigation and audit trail requirements</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Familiarity with bias, fairness, and explainability approaches and their application in financial services AI systems</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Familiarity with system design principles for AI — scalability, fault tolerance, and distributed architecture for production AI workloads</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Familiarity with data pipeline architecture for enterprise AI workloads including ingestion, transformation, and governance</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Understanding of data security and privacy best practices in cloud environments as they apply to LLM application development and deployment</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Familiarity with AI-assisted software engineering tools as part of delivery leadership and engineering execution (e.g. Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex etc.)</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Familiarity with GPU-accelerated AI workloads and cloud AI services for model inference and deployment at scale (e.g. NVIDIA GPU platforms, Azure ML, AWS SageMaker etc.)</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Familiarity with agile and modern engineering delivery methodologies as applied to 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