Assurance Managed Services Solutions Architect

Position: ASSURANCE MANAGED SERVICES SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT
Location: Jericho

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EY has an established a Global Managed Services business, of which Assurance Managed Services is a rapidly growing part, encompassing Integrated Finance, Controllership, FP&A, Treasury, ESG, Intelligent Data Discovery and Digital Compliance and Technology Risk solutions. Our ambition is to achieve significant growth in Assurance managed services through investment in modular, digital and audit-ready services available in both EY-hosted and EY-client hybrid configurations.

To drive this growth, we are expanding our multi-disciplinary Solutions team to increase the breadth and depth of our technology, data, process and controls, and business architecture expertise.

** The opportunity*
* The Global Solutions team leads the investment to create and enhance our Assurance Managed Services solution portfolio. We work closely with our business domain leaders to help to define the global vision for Assurance Managed Services and set the standards to which our managed services are developed and delivered.

With clients increasingly seeking to digitize their operations, we work closely with our EY technology teams, technology alliance partners and broader ecosystem to identify and leverage the latest technology applications, as well as leveraging predictive analytics, AI and machine learning to optimize our services and provide deep client insights into their own business operations.

The team is made up of data specialists (data architects, data engineers, data scientists), technology architects, process and controls architects, business transformation specialists and client-facing deal architects.

We are seeking to expand this team with the introduction of experienced Solution Architects to support the growth of Assurance Managed Services. These Solution Architects will partner with business domain leaders to shape, design, and commercialize managed services offerings. The roles bridge business strategy and solution and technology execution, translating market opportunities, customer requirements, and domain-specific needs into scalable, operationally and commercial viable managed services architectures.

The ideal candidates will combine strong business and technology acumen with architectural rigor and have a proven ability to convert strategic intent into structured managed service portfolios, operating models, and commercial frameworks.

We are seeking to appoint individuals who in addition to the broad architectural responsibilities described are able to act as the domain lead in the following areas;

+ Solution Architect - Business and Service Architecture Lead

+ Solution Architect - Technology Architecture Lead

** Key Responsibilities across both roles are*
* Strategic Business Alignment

+ partner with business domain leaders within the EY Sub-Service Lines to understand strategic objectives, market opportunities, competitive positioning, and growth targets.

+ facilitate structured discovery sessions that ensure client, EY and third-party requirements are fully elaborated, captured and considered throughout the solutions development lifecycle;

+ translate the business strategy and requirements into clear managed services value propositions and solution architecture roadmaps.

Managed Services Architecture

+ design end-to-end managed services business architectures that incorporate standardized, scalable constructs that enable repeatability and margin optimization. With the support of domain architects and specialists, including process, technology data and commercial, lead the overall solution architecture,  ensuring alignment between business architecture, technology architecture, and operational capabilities, including;

+ Solution / service scope definition

+ Client experience blueprints

+ Process and controls design

+ Technology architecture and design

+ Operating model and governance structure

+ Service lifecycle model (including onboarding, offboarding and in-flight change)

+ SLA/OLA frameworks

+ Ensure compliance with regulatory, security, controls and risk frameworks where applicable (e.g. SOC1)

+ Delivery model (global/local/hybrid)

+ Commercial and pricing models

+ ensure regulatory and legal compliance requirements are fully considered when developing and maintaining standard architectures, and when assessing requestes for solutions and deals to deviate from standard architectures and design patterns;

+ liaise with IT security, data security, quality and risk management, Independence and other stakeholders to ensure architectures, designs and operational services meet broader EY requirements and standards;

+ contribute to the design and development of the Managed Services Orchestrator

Commercial & Financial Modeling

+ support business case development including revenue projections, cost structures, margin…