GPS - Technical Architect - Supervising Associate

Overview

Location:

Mc Lean

Other locations:
Anywhere in Region

Date:
Jan 27, 2026

Requisition

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.

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 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.

• Providing technical guidance and support to client engagements focusing on complex and 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 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 managers, project managers, product analysts, test and project teams, information security and operations.
• Demonstrating excellent interpersonal communication and organizational skills required to operate as a leading member of global, distributed teams that deliver quality services and solutions.
• Monitoring the progress and quality of the project and performing due diligence to confirm the developed solution complies with architectural design.

• 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,…