AI Native Cloud and Platform Architect - Senior Manager
Ernst and Young1 day ago
Base Salary
$144k - $374k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set the AI platform vision, reference architecture, roadmap, and non-functional standards across cloud, hybrid, and approved edge environments.
- Run the platform as a product by defining service tiers and golden paths, prioritizing the roadmap, and measuring adoption and time to value.
- Design portable model-access gateways with stable contracts, policy-aware routing, resilience, and controlled experimentation.
- Architect elastic compute, storage, and networking foundations for AI workloads while balancing performance, regional constraints, resilience, and cost.
- Automate production delivery for code and AI assets with progressive releases, rollback, and release evidence.
- Define secure and understandable agent runtime patterns for tools, identities, approvals, isolation, recovery, and replay.
- Establish service objectives, observability standards, recovery patterns, and resilience exercises.
- Connect usage, performance, and quality signals to improve unit economics without weakening reliability or user outcomes.
- Lead build-versus-buy and portability decisions with cross-functional stakeholders.
- Mentor platform engineers and SREs and strengthen reusable architecture and engineering practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field of study.
- 9-12+ years of relevant experience designing and operating cloud, infrastructure, SRE, or platform capabilities, including production AI workloads.
- Demonstrated experience building a shared platform adopted by multiple product teams with measurable improvements in speed, reliability, or cost.
- Deep experience with at least one major cloud and judgment regarding hybrid or multi-cloud portability.
- Hands-on experience with orchestration, networking, identity, infrastructure as code, delivery automation, APIs, and production observability.
- Experience operating model-serving and AI lifecycle capabilities, including release controls, evaluation, capacity, service objectives, and incident learning.
- Demonstrated build-versus-buy judgment and ability to explain operational, commercial, and technical consequences.
- Experience leading complex programs, influencing senior stakeholders, and mentoring engineers.
- Preferred experience includes high-volume or latency-sensitive inference, accelerator capacity optimization, agent runtimes, tool gateways, sandboxed execution, policy-aware multi-agent environments, FinOps, performance engineering, and industry contributions to cloud-native, observability, AI platform, interoperability, open-source, standards, or research communities.
- Exceptional candidates from product, service design, operations, transformation, policy, domain, or entrepreneurial backgrounds are welcomed; the posting also states that no particular degree or certification is required.
Benefits
- Base salary ranges from $144,000 to $329,100 for other U.S. office locations, $172,800 to $359,000 for specified metropolitan and regional offices, and $180,000 to $374,000 for Bay Area California offices.
- Medical and dental coverage, pension, and 401(k) plans are offered.
- Benefits include flexible vacation, paid holidays, winter and summer breaks, personal and family care time, and other leaves of absence.
- The role allows work anywhere in the country but requires up to 50% travel and flexibility to work in the office in a hybrid capacity.
- The position is ongoing and EY asks applicants to limit themselves to two applications within a six-month period.
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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.