GPS - Technical Architect - Supervising Associate Security Clearance

Position: GPS - Technical Architect - Supervising Associate with Security Clearance
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. From strategy to execution, the Government & Public Sector (GPS) practice of Ernst & Young LLP provides a full range of consulting and audit services to help our Federal, State, Local and Education clients implement new ideas to help achieve their mission outcomes.

We deliver real change and measurable results through our diverse, high-performing teams, quality work at the highest professional standards, operational know-how from across our global organization, and creative and bold ideas that drive innovation. We enable our government clients to achieve their mission of protecting the nation and serving the people; increasing public safety; improving healthcare for our military, veterans and citizens;

delivering essential public services; and helping those in need. EY is ready to help our government build a better working world. Our GPS Technology Organization is a structure within the US GPS practice that implements and maintains a new operate and technology model designed specifically to support U.S. defense and Government engagements. The opportunity We are looking for a Technical Architect within the US Government and Public Sector Technology Hub.

In this role, you will be responsible for delivering solution designs and architectures for key initiatives hosted in primarily in a cloud hosted government platform, and considering re-use, scalability, and reliability in alignment with EY's mission and strategy. You will develop relationships across the business and EY Technology to understand requirements, apply technical knowledge of solution and technical architecture to solve business problems and work closely with other architecture and development teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions.

In this role you will create reliable solution plans that include cost estimates and optimized delivery approaches by working with the business, multi-disciplinary teams including our peers in Technical Solution Management and Product Costing. As a Technical Architect, your key responsibilities are:

* Providing Technical guidance & support to client engagements focusing on complex & innovative products and reusable assets within the context of Azure/Azure Gov Platform services

* Creating detailed Infrastructure and Engineering designs that account for the end-to-end technical solution of a system, in line with the business strategy and objectives and within the context of EY's technology environment and Azure/Azure Gov Platform services

* Ability to work across multiple projects with varied stakeholders. Setting architectural direction, you'll build consensus, mediate conflicts providing technical leadership and advisory services to the business. Anticipating needs and potential objections and helping to create an environment which solicits positive contributions from all participants:
Solution and Technical Architects, engineering teams, product manager, project managers, product analysts, test and project teams, Information Security and Operations
* Demonstrating excellent interpersonal communication and organizational skills that are required to operate as a leading member of global, distributed teams that deliver quality services and solutions
* Monitoring the progress and the quality of the project and reviews and develops due diligence to confirm the developed solution complies with architectural design

To qualify for the role, you must have
* Thorough understanding of Azure/Azure Gov (Gateways, Firewalls, Containers, ADO, etc.) architecture.

* Experience in architecting and designing technical solutions for Microsoft-centric solutions based on industry standards using (Azure) IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS capabilities.
* Experience with any claims-based authentication (SAML/OAuth/OIDC), MFA, JIT, and/or RBAC / Ping etc.
* Experience in data movement and transformation technologies
* Knowledge of cloud security controls including tenant isolation, encryption at rest, encryption in transit, key management, vulnerability assessments, application firewalls, SIEM, etc.
* Ability to adopt and relate new technologies to the set of problems we face at EY while adhering to security and other EY standards
* Good understanding of latest cloud computing and data technologies, business drivers, emerging computing trends, and deployment options
* Highly skilled in defining, designing, and developing distributed and scalable products and services, including reusable domain-specific microservices on multi-platform /hybrid clouds (such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, etc.)

* Ability to navigate the EY organization to facilitate work beyond the immediate technical team
* Experience with Agile & Dev Sec Ops  methodologies
* Excellent technical, collaboration, interpersonal and…