Technology Consulting - TMT - Forward Deployed Engineer - Sr Manager
Ernst and Young5 days ago
Dallas, TX, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$172k - $446k/yr
Responsibilities
- Establish the Forward Deployed Engineering capability for EY’s Technology sector, including the role model, hiring bar, engineering standards, and ways of working.
- Embed with senior client stakeholders to shape ambiguous problems into AI use cases and connect technical decisions to business outcomes.
- Lead solution shaping, proposals, pricing, technical demonstrations, and working prototypes that reduce engagement risk.
- Own end-to-end architecture for strategic generative AI, RAG, and agentic programs, including service boundaries, orchestration, data contracts, evaluation, and operational guardrails.
- Remain hands-on by writing code, reviewing designs, and resolving complex and escalated technical problems.
- Define API, integration, reference architecture, evaluation, benchmarking, observability, resilience, security, and responsible-AI standards.
- Create reusable solution patterns, sector playbooks, and platform primitives across the Technology sector portfolio.
- Build long-term relationships with client executives and contribute to sales, account growth, and cross-service collaboration.
- Hire, coach, and develop FDEs and engineers while using AI-assisted engineering tools to improve team speed and quality.
Requirements
- 15+ years of applied engineering experience, including significant senior AI/ML engineering, architecture, or client-facing technology delivery experience.
- Expertise in LLM behavior, context design, advanced prompt engineering, fine-tuning trade-offs, and failure modes.
- Proven delivery of production-grade generative AI, RAG, and agentic systems with guardrails, human oversight, and responsible AI controls.
- Experience redesigning business processes around agents and multi-step AI workflows, including tool integration, context management, and failure handling.
- Track record of building reusable components, reference architectures, and shared AI platform capabilities.
- Strong systems and performance expertise covering distributed systems, API design, latency, cost, reliability, and scale.
- Advanced hands-on Python or Java experience with Azure, AWS, and/or GCP, Kubernetes, and Docker.
- Experience with Databricks, Snowflake, or Microsoft Fabric and AI-ready data foundations.
- Experience building evaluation frameworks, benchmarking, A/B testing, and production quality measurements.
- Ability to operate in ambiguous client environments, provide architect-level guidance, and prepare client and EY teams to adopt and extend delivered systems.
- Proven contribution to sales and account growth and ability to build high-trust client relationships.
- Ability to work in person at an EY office and/or client location up to 50% of the time.
- Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without employer sponsorship now or in the future.
- Preferred qualifications include experience serving technology-sector organizations, prior FDE, solutions engineer, or field CTO experience, GPU-accelerated AI workloads, managed cloud AI services, productionizing generative AI systems, orchestration frameworks, established Bay Area technology relationships, relevant cloud certifications, and a bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
Benefits
- Medical and dental coverage.
- Pension and 401(k) plans.
- A wide range of paid time off options.
- Work is based in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, the Bay Area, and other U.S. locations, with in-person work at an EY office and/or client location up to 50% of the time.
- The position is accepting applications 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.