Platform Engineer - Senior - Consulting

Location:

Anywhere in Country

At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence. We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go. Join EY and help to build a better working world. At EY, our purpose is to shape the future. The insights and quality services we provide help build trust and confidence in the capital markets and economies all over the world.

We develop outstanding leaders who team to deliver on our promises to all our stakeholders. In so doing, we play a critical role in building a better working world for our people, for our clients and for our communities.

The goal is to support our clients to transform their business through technology. You will be responsible for analyzing, designing, developing, integrating, testing, and deploying new and existing software application programs. You will work with customers’ technical leads, client executives, and partners to manage and deliver high quality systems with a focus on reliability and excellent customer experience, becoming a trusted advisor to decision makers throughout the engagement.

As a Senior Application Designer and Developer, you will play a pivotal role in delivering innovative solutions.

• Design and implement robust APIs and microservices using Java, Python, FastAPI and OpenAPI.
• Architect and maintain containerized applications using Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm.
• Develop and optimize data models and queries using Postgre
  
  SQL and ORM (e.g., SQL Alchemy).
• Champion test‑driven development (TDD) practices, including unit and integration testing.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to build distributed systems leveraging message queues (Rabbit
  
  MQ) and caching layers (Redis).
• Integrate authentication and authorization mechanisms using Keycloak, OAuth2, OIDC, and Azure Active Directory (AAD).
• Work with Azure cloud services, including API gateways (APIM, Front Door) and object storage (Azure Blob and File Storage).
• Creating and debugging Kubernetes‑hosted services.
• Explore and implement interactions with AI/LLM systems, including agentic workflows, vector stores and embedding‑based search.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize platform performance and reliability.
• Occasional contributions to CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure‑as‑code.

Regular travel may be required to meet with clients, providing you with the opportunity to engage directly with stakeholders.

• Ability to multitask and work in a fast‑paced, collaborative team environment
• Excellent written and oral communication skills; writing, publishing and conference‑level presentation skills
• Convert unclear or broad requirements into clear, actionable tasks that prioritize high‑value outcomes for our users.
• Passionate about delivering commercial software products and platforms to market
• Deeply technical and constantly in a state of learning
• Comfortable providing technical guidance and coaching to other engineers
• Strive to be at the forefront of new modern technologies and bring them within the larger team
• Ensure the successful engineering delivery of assigned projects and putting hands‑on if needed
• Work with the engineering team to package best practices and lessons learned into thought leadership and published assets
• Interact with sales, partners, and customer technical stakeholders to manage project scope, priorities, deliverables, risks/issues, and timelines for successful project outcomes
• Strong understanding of agile delivery and development methodologies.
• Proficiency in application development tools and quality assurance practices.
• Ability to build and manage relationships with clients, fostering trust and value.

• Bachelor’s degree (4‑year degree) in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Typically, no less than 2‑4 years relevant experience in professional platform engineering experience or similar role in software development and system administration.
• Experience building large‑scale distributed systems with cloud native technologies
• Programming languages:
  Experience with Java or C#, Python, Spring…