Forward Deployed Engineer - Applied AI - Senior Manager - Financial Services - Consulting
Ernst and Young19 days ago
Base Salary
$144k - $329k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and govern system design principles, reference architectures, engineering patterns, and API strategies for enterprise AI/ML, generative AI, RAG, and agentic systems.
- Lead complex and escalated technical challenges through hands-on architecture, coding, troubleshooting, design remediation, and technical guidance.
- Own end-to-end architecture for strategic AI initiatives, including service boundaries, orchestration, data contracts, evaluation frameworks, integration, security, and operational guardrails.
- Establish enterprise standards for model evaluation, benchmarking, experimentation, rollout controls, observability, resilience, responsible AI, and production quality measurement.
- Lead complex project and program delivery outcomes by aligning architecture, engineering execution, stakeholder governance, risks, dependencies, and delivery quality.
- Partner with engineering, architecture, product, data, security, operations, and engagement leaders to shape technical roadmaps and investment decisions.
- Mentor senior engineers and technical leads and create reusable AI platform capabilities across teams and client engagements.
- Use AI-assisted software engineering tools to accelerate design, implementation, review, and delivery practices.
Requirements
- 10+ years of applied engineering experience, including extensive senior AI/ML engineering, architecture, or complex technology delivery experience.
- Advanced hands-on engineering credibility in Python and experience building and delivering large-scale enterprise AI platforms.
- Deep knowledge of open-source and commercial foundation models and experience evaluating model suitability, trade-offs, and total cost of ownership.
- Experience architecting enterprise knowledge AI systems involving foundation models, agentic design, AI application integration, NLP, and multimodal systems.
- Expertise designing and governing multi-agent orchestration, tool-use patterns, memory architecture, and LLM operations standards.
- Experience with enterprise API, containerization, integration, data security, privacy, compliance, model monitoring, evaluation, and observability practices.
- Ability to advise clients and internal stakeholders on AI platform strategy, vendor evaluation, build-versus-operate decisions, and enterprise adoption.
- Ability to communicate complex AI architecture concepts to executive, technical, and non-technical audiences and translate strategy into engineering roadmaps.
- Experience establishing architecture governance, engineering standards, AI platform modernization initiatives, and responsible AI controls is preferred.
- Experience with financial-services AI risk, regulatory, model governance, explainability, data architecture, GPU workloads, and cloud AI infrastructure is preferred.
- Bachelor’s degree preferred; an MBA or MS is also preferred.
- Prior consulting experience is preferred.
Benefits
- Hybrid work model with most external, client-serving employees expected to work in person 40–60% of the time during an engagement, project, or year.
- Medical and dental coverage, pension, and 401(k) plans.
- Paid time off options, EY paid holidays, winter and summer breaks, personal and family care leave, and other leaves of absence.
- Flexible vacation policy and a flexible, inclusive work environment.
- Locations listed include Charlotte, Dallas, New York, and Tampa.
- Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward Deployed
About Ernst and Young
Ernst & Young (EY) provides audit/assurance, tax, consulting, strategy and transactions services to enterprises, financial institutions, and public‑sector clients. Structured as a global network of partner‑owned member firms, it sells professional services on a fee basis, including a dedicated Financial Services Organization for banking, insurance, and capital markets. Headquartered in London, EY was formed in 1989 from the merger of Ernst & Whinney and Arthur Young, and operates in 150+ countries.