Client Technology - Engineer - Architecture
Ernst and Young1 month ago
Wrocław, PolandStaff+
Responsibilities
- Translate business and product needs into pragmatic platform and product architecture.
- Lead architecture and technology direction for assigned EY Fabric capabilities across the full delivery lifecycle.
- Create architecture blueprints, detailed designs, architectural decision records, reference patterns, and implementation guidance.
- Design secure, scalable, reusable services, APIs, integration patterns, datastores, user-facing capabilities, and platform components.
- Work hands-on with engineering teams through prototyping, proof-of-concept development, code review, pair design, troubleshooting, and design assurance.
- Evaluate technologies, build-versus-buy options, and technical assumptions, providing evidence-based recommendations.
- Provide technical leadership during delivery and ensure implementations align with architecture, quality, security, and enterprise standards.
- Support planning, estimation, forecasting, investment decisions, architecture work, technical debt management, and trade-offs among cost, risk, quality, and time to market.
- Mentor engineers and architects and contribute to architecture and engineering communities.
- Monitor technology trends, including AI-assisted engineering, and apply them responsibly where they provide measurable value.
Requirements
- Significant experience in solution or technical architecture within complex, large-scale product or internal developer platform environments, with a record of successful implementation and adoption.
- Hands-on software engineering experience in at least one modern language such as C#, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, or Python, including reviewing and improving production code.
- Broad architecture experience across cloud-native applications, integration, data, and security.
- Practical Microsoft Azure or other cloud experience covering compute, storage, networking, security, and identity, including Entra ID, RBAC, Key Vault, Azure Policy, and tenant-aware identity patterns.
- Experience designing distributed and scalable products and platforms using APIs, microservices, containers, and Kubernetes, preferably AKS.
- Experience with automated testing, DevSecOps practices, and modern API design and API Management.
- Understanding of secure-by-design practices, compliance expectations, in-application security, and enterprise technology standards.
- Experience designing for reusability, reliability, maintainability, observability, performance, cost optimization, and technical debt management.
- Working knowledge of architecture and design patterns, containerized systems, event-driven architecture, data streaming, and data platforms.
- Strong analytical, collaboration, and communication skills, including explaining complex decisions to senior stakeholders and working across globally distributed teams.
- Desirable experience with InnerSource, internal developer platforms, reusable engineering assets, platform marketplaces, shared-services models, AI-assisted or agentic engineering tools, workflow automation, enterprise user-experience patterns, data management, or data governance.
- Architecture or security certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure Security Engineer, TOGAF, SAFe, or comparable credentials are desirable.
- A relevant degree or equivalent practical experience in engineering, computer science, information technology, or a related discipline.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement in Wrocław or Katowice with 2 days in the office and 3 days remote.
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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.