Applied AI Strategist - Senior Manager - Location OPEN

EY•Hartford, DC

1d•$150,400 - $390,500•Hybrid

About The Position

This role offers the exciting opportunity to build and lead the delivery of applied AI solutions for private equity clients and their portfolio companies, aligning AI investment with each client's value creation strategy to achieve measurable business outcomes. You will serve as a hands-on architect and trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders, leading small, embedded teams of engineer-consultant practitioners who design, build, and operationalize production-grade AI agents — and who carry the process and organizational change around them. Specializing in agentic and generative AI delivery, you will coach others on relevant frameworks, tools, techniques, and enabling technologies, proposing solutions to technical constraints and anticipating bottlenecks across the full solution lifecycle.

Requirements

A Bachelor's degree (4-year degree), with a master's degree preferred.
Typically, no less than 5 - 7 years of relevant experience.
Agentic AI Solution Architecture
Generative AI Application Development (RAG, multi-agent systems, orchestration frameworks such as LangChain/LangGraph)
AI Platform Design & Operations (LLMOps / MLOps)
Multi-Model & Multi-Cloud Architecture (Azure, AWS, GCP)
Data Platform & Pipeline Engineering (Snowflake, Databricks, lakehouse patterns)
AI Governance, Security & Responsible AI (including RBAC/ABAC authorization design)
AI Use-Case Discovery & Value Qualification
Business Case Development
Process Re-engineering & Workflow Automation
AI Operating Model / Organization Design
Building and Managing Relationships
Client Trust and Value
Commercial Astuteness
Communicating With Impact
Complex Problem-Solving
Critical Thinking
Driving Outcomes
Leading Teams
Learning Agility
Managing Change
Negotiation and Influencing

Nice To Haves

A proactive approach to problem-solving and the ability to work autonomously as well as part of a team.
Experience in a consulting environment, with a focus on AI, data, or digital transformation.
Experience serving private equity firms or their portfolio companies, or operating in comparably fast-paced, outcome-driven environments.
Strong communication skills, capable of effectively articulating AI solutions to both technical and non-technical audiences.
A passion for staying at the frontier of AI — adopting the latest models, agents, and tools in your daily work.

Responsibilities

Effective management and delivery of complex applied AI solutions — from opportunity identification through production deployment and adoption — maintaining focus on quality, risk management, and measurable value while navigating operational and organizational dynamics.
Owning solution architecture and technical direction for AI deployments across multiple concurrent client environments.
Exercising judgment in selecting models, frameworks, and evaluation criteria for obtaining reliable, compliant results.
Developing solutions to complex problems spanning data, process, and organizational change.
Recommending changes to client operating models and establishing delivery practices that affect immediate workstreams and possibly the broader business function.
Working embedded at client sites and travel regularly as required by external clients, managing client relationships with daily interactions.