Forward Deployed Engineer - Applied AI - Senior Manager - Financial Services - Consulting

EY is the only professional services firm with a separate business unit (“FSO”) that is dedicated to the financial services marketplace. Our FSO teams have been at the forefront of every event that has reshaped and redefined the financial services industry.

Leads the definition and delivery of AI system design principles, reference architectures, and engineering standards for highly complex AI/ML initiatives across the organization. Brings deep technical authority, exceptional hands-on engineering experience, and the ability to shape long-term technology direction while also leading complex project and program outcomes. Takes accountability for the architecture, technical quality, integration approach, delivery execution, and operational excellence of AI-enabled solutions and platforms. Ensures business and user requirements are translated into scalable, secure, reusable, and high-impact technical designs that can be adopted across multiple teams and domains.

What you'll do:

• Define and govern system design principles, reference architectures, and engineering patterns for AI/ML, generative AI, RAG, and agentic systems.
• Lead the most complex and escalated technical challenges across multiple teams, providing hands-on guidance in architecture, coding, troubleshooting, and design remediation.
• Own end-to-end architecture for strategic AI initiatives, including service boundaries, orchestration models, data contracts, evaluation frameworks, and operational guardrails.
• Drive consistency in engineering standards, design reviews, architecture governance, observability, resilience, security, and responsible AI practices.
• Shape the enterprise integration model for AI/ML components within broader product, platform, infrastructure, and client delivery ecosystems.
• Define and evolve API and integration strategies for AI platforms and applications, including contract design, versioning, security, idempotency, and reliability patterns at enterprise scale.

Full details and application on the official EY careers page.