AI & Data - Applied AI Delivery Architect - Senior Manager
Ernst and Young4 days ago
Dublin, IrelandStaff+
Responsibilities
- Advise EY Partners and senior client stakeholders on AI strategies, target architectures, risk appetite, and regulatory context.
- Own end-to-end architectures covering GenAI platforms, RAG, agents, copilots, ML platforms, model lifecycle management, data, integration, and API layers.
- Design secure, resilient, auditable, compliant AI architectures for complex enterprise and legacy environments.
- Lead technical oversight, escalation, production stabilization, and transition from proof of concept to scaled production.
- Implement responsible AI principles, governance frameworks, model risk controls, and human oversight with Risk, Legal, and Compliance teams.
- Support regulatory discussions, board reviews, regulator scrutiny, and external audit requirements.
- Support client growth, pursuits, proposals, technical demonstrations, and go-to-market activities.
- Guide multidisciplinary teams and establish coding standards, architectural patterns, and delivery best practices.
- Mentor technical teams, shape EY standards, and contribute to AI accelerators, frameworks, reference architectures, reusable patterns, and thought leadership.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of experience in enterprise technology, architecture, or AI engineering roles.
- Proven experience delivering AI/ML or GenAI solutions in production environments.
- Advanced LLM and RAG engineering experience, including prompt pipelines, embeddings, vector stores, hybrid retrieval, grounding, hallucination mitigation, and evaluation frameworks.
- Hands-on experience with LLMs, prompt engineering, RAG architectures, AI orchestration, machine learning pipelines, and model lifecycle management.
- Experience in consulting, advisory, or large-enterprise delivery environments and demonstrated success with senior client stakeholders.
- Experience with data platforms, APIs, and distributed systems.
- Experience designing architectures on at least one major cloud platform, with Azure preferred and AWS or GCP accepted.
- Ability to lead multidisciplinary engineering, data science, architecture, product, and design teams through complex delivery cycles.
- Preferred experience in regulated industries such as financial services, public sector, health, or energy.
- Familiarity with AI governance frameworks and model risk management practices.
- Prior Big Four or global consultancy experience is preferred.
- Experience building or scaling AI platforms or internal developer ecosystems is preferred.
- Experience leading technical discovery sessions to define technology and hardware infrastructure requirements is preferred.
Benefits
- Full-time permanent employment.
- Flexible and hybrid working arrangements across EY offices in the Republic of Ireland, with client-site travel potentially required.
- Competitive remuneration and a customizable Total Rewards package covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings, discounts, offers, and promotions.
- Pension, maternity and paternity leave, discounted health insurance, bike-to-work scheme, free online GP consultations, recognition awards, additional annual leave purchase, referral incentives, work mobile, gym membership, TECH MBA funding, travel pass, and wellness rooms at some offices.
- Career development, continuous learning, coaching, mentoring, leadership development, and opportunities to progress.
- Inclusive workplace with reasonable accommodations and flexible working support.
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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.