Client Technology - Engineering - Architecture

Client Technology - Engineering - Architecture

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We are looking for a candidate who will be part of the Architecture team within the EY Client Technology’s Architecture function. The candidate will be responsible for defining and delivering architectures and designs for business‑critical global products and platforms, hosted in a variety of infrastructure/environments considering reusability, scalability and reliability in alignment with EY’s mission and strategy.

• Build relationships across the business to understand their requirements, strategy and help them build product/platform roadmaps, demonstrate architecture leadership to translate business requirements into architecture blueprints and innovative and practical design.
• Own the overall technology, architecture and design landscape of the product/platform from solutioning to delivery to adoption and sale phases.
• Solve complex problems in realms where solutions may not currently exist, necessitating ideation and incubation of new solutions/ways of working/technologies, technical feasibility and buy/build analysis, vendor product evaluations, proof of concepts and presenting options to the business with appropriate recommendations.
• Work very closely with multi‑disciplinary teams (e.g. engineering, platform, infosec) to deliver the envisioned architectures and design using optimized delivery approaches, in compliance with enterprise standards, practices, policies and guidelines.
• Provide leadership in product delivery to build and consume reusable functional and technical assets, identify, define, and implement reusable assets and standards.
• Support product and project managers in building plans, forecasts, estimations and costs for new as well as existing products/platforms, balancing costs, risks and quality.
• Coach, mentor and support development teams during the delivery phase across the ecosystem, frameworks and platforms, ensuring compliance with architecture, design, quality standards and review processes.
• Contribute to architecture and development standards/guidelines to promote optimization and consistency.
• Excite across multiple projects with varied stakeholders, establishing architectural direction, building consensus, mediating conflicts and providing technical leadership and advisory services to the business.
• Demonstrate strong interpersonal communication and organizational skills required to operate as a leading member of global, distributed teams delivering quality services and solutions.
• Cultivate lasting relationships across business, IT and vendors/industry analysts to maintain insight into the broader enterprise and industry trends, evangelising technical quality and emerging technologies through mentoring, hackathons, communities, etc.

• Architecture leadership skills, advanced understanding and practical experience of the role with a proven track record in a complex, large‑scale global product/platform ecosystem across the entire lifecycle from planning to delivery to support/operations and adoption. Proven ability to work with business as well as perform hands‑on technology delivery work using various architecture and design tools.
• Hands‑on deep experience in one or more specialisations of solution and technical architecture (application, infrastructure/cloud, integration, data and security) and successful delivery of functional and non‑functional aspects of a product/platform using native cloud, full‑stack application, data, security, AI technologies, following Agile, Dev Sec Ops  and automation practices.
• Expert‑level skills in defining, designing and developing distributed and scalable products and platforms using reusable domain‑specific composable services running on containers on multi‑platform/hybrid clouds (Microsoft Azure preferred) and the respective cloud IaaS/PaaS/SaaS services.
• Microsoft and Azure based technology skills are preferred.
• Ability to adopt and relate new technologies to EY’s problems while adhering to security and other EY standards.
• Understanding of business and organisational strategy and ability to…