Americas Tax Technology Group - Solutions Architect - Manager

Location:

Chicago

Other locations:
Anywhere in Region

Date:
Oct 14, 2026

Requisition

Location:

Chicago,Nashville, Atlanta, Dallas, New York, Iselin

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The opportunity

As part of our Americas Tax Technology Group (ATTG) you will be part of a technology organization that develops and maintains innovative solutions for our client-serving Tax professionals. ATTG professionals will partner with our Tax professionals to develop supporting technology such as digital/mobile tools to improve internal operations and advanced capabilities in the areas of data-driven management, workflow, analytics, automation and artificial intelligence that solve today’s challenges and create the future.

The Solutions Architect role is in the Architecture and Standards pillar. The main function of this pillar is to Architect market-differentiating solutions and set standards for ATTG

Your key responsibilities

• Ensures the architecture of solutions is aligned with the direction of organization in terms of technology and business strategy.
• Drives effective decision making to steer, harmonize and accelerates efforts within Portfolio.
• Accountable for the solution architecture of all products within the SSL portfolio.
• Ensures the direction and implementation of a solution is true to its design, and if a change is required, it is managed appropriately.
• Makes an informed Build vs. Buy decision by consistently following NTI process and applying systematic approach to technology evaluation.
• Routes technology purchase requests through appropriate channels to ensure alignment with Global Procurement purchasing requirements.
• Ensures that the solution design specifies technologies & tools that have been approved for use by Tax Quality, Risk Management & Independence.
• Collaborate with SDL and BTL to devise Solution Delivery Strategy.
• Assists with mapping of the business technology strategy to a solution strategy.
• Participate in rationalization on the latest trends in the market, available at ATTG and EY Fabric capabilities and offerings.
• Facilitates preparation of potential technical solutions and advises SDL and BTL on the technical and business value of the proposition.
• Promote growth, innovation, and long-term profitability concepts

Skills and attributes for success

• Develops standards that typically include best practices observed from other technology rollouts and helping develop solutions faster through repeatable actions or reusable components in new designs.
• Identifies programs to deliver Architectural leverage and scale through reusable components.
• Works alongside governance bodies in ATTG to form part of the organization’s overall governance picture.
• Designs product sand services for minimal human intervention in deployment and operation.
• Ensures that governance is met through automation and policy enforcement to reduce manual process gates
• Ensures compliance to the standards for solution architecture and integration of the relevant building blocks already available
• Defines a robust architecture for building new applications and releases, leveraging and enhancing existing building blocks, or creating new reusable components
• Drives the organization towards best practices and technologies such as Cloud Architecture, AI, Agile/Dev Ops, Big Data/Analytics, Microservices and Micro-Frontends
• Partners with others inside and outside SSL and ATTG organization to gather all requirements to formulate the appropriate…