Managed Services - AI-Native Software Engineer - Senior Consultant

EY • Hartford, DC

23h • Hybrid

About The Position

This role is for a hands‑on Solution Architect who designs, prototypes and builds modern, AI‑enabled applications and digital products. You will spend the majority of your time designing architectures, writing and reviewing code, building proofs‑of‑concept, and guiding engineering teams through complex technical decisions. This position emphasizes technical depth, engineering judgment, and architecture ownership across build‑and‑run engagements in Digital Engineering Managed Services.

Requirements

• Strong hands‑on background in software engineering and modern application architectures.
• Deep understanding of cloud‑native design, APIs, integration patterns and data architectures.
• Practical experience building AI‑enabled features (prompting, RAG, embeddings, evaluation).
• Comfort working directly in code, infrastructure and pipelines—not just producing diagrams.
• Clear technical communication and a bias toward building to learn.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline (or equivalent experience).
• Typically 8+ years in engineering and solution architecture roles, with recent hands‑on delivery responsibility.
• Prior consulting or complex product delivery experience strongly preferred.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Azure (preferred), AWS or GCP and containerized platforms.
• Exposure to observability stacks, SRE concepts and incident response.
• Experience architecting in regulated environments with privacy, security or model‑risk considerations.
• Relevant cloud, security or architecture certifications (a plus, not required).

Responsibilities

• Design end‑to‑end application architectures across UI, APIs, services, data, AI components, integrations and runtime platforms.
• Actively prototype and spike solutions (code, configs, pipelines, prompts) to validate architectural decisions early.
• Define and evolve reference architectures for AI‑enabled products, including RAG patterns, vector search, prompt orchestration, evaluation and guardrails.
• Author Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), sequence flows, deployment diagrams and non‑functional requirements.
• Work directly in codebases alongside engineers to set patterns, unblock delivery and raise technical quality.
• Leverage AI coding and testing tools to accelerate development while enforcing clean architecture, security and maintainability.
• Review AI‑generated code, tests and documentation; apply engineering judgment to validate correctness and risk.
• Guide teams on effective prompt design, context management and reuse of AI accelerators.
• Define performance, scalability, resilience, observability and operability requirements up front.
• Design for reliability using SLOs/SLIs, telemetry, graceful degradation and incident readiness.
• Embed security‑by‑design, Zero Trust principles and Responsible AI controls into solution designs.
• Ensure solutions are production‑ready with runbooks, automation and clear support handoffs.
• Architect solutions that transition cleanly into long‑term managed operations.
• Design CI/CD pipelines, environment strategies and release automation with operational simplicity in mind.
• Balance speed of delivery with sustainability, cost transparency and service SLAs.
• Lead technical workshops and whiteboarding sessions with client architects and engineers.
• Explain architectural tradeoffs clearly to technical and semi‑technical stakeholders.
• Support solutioning and proposals primarily through architecture design, estimates and delivery approaches.
• Follow EY and client policies for data protection, privacy and confidentiality.
• Ensure all AI‑enabled components are evaluated, monitored and governed.
• Maintain human accountability for architecture decisions and production readiness.

Benefits

• Continuous learning, certification support and opportunities to shape reusable EY assets.
• Flexible work arrangements within a collaborative, inclusive culture.
• Comprehensive compensation and benefits package
• Medical and dental coverage
• Pension and 401(k) plans
• Wide range of paid time off options
• Flexible vacation policy
• Time off for designated EY Paid Holidays, Winter/Summer breaks, Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior