Solution Architect

Solution Architect

EY is a global leader in Advisory, Assurance, Tax, and Transaction Services. In our globalizing economy the availability of skills and expertise is becoming more and more distributed. Within the End User Technology Experience team, we enable EY professionals to meet the increasing pace of business by delivering productivity and collaboration solutions that empower them to work together where they want and how they want. The Solution Architect is a highly skilled senior role with industry leading architecture and design expertise to support one or more programs. He/she has a deep end to end understanding of architecture standards and platform solution development expertise. The End User Technology Experience requires a seasoned Solution Architect to provide technical guidance on Application development, Microsoft Platform solutions, and lead customer service applications. Candidate must be a self-starter with Agile framework experience and provide RISK/Technical architecture leadership.

Essential Functions of the Job

• A Solution Architect provides architecture leadership & subject matter expertise to product and program managers focusing on complex & innovative solutions

• The solution architect creates innovative and practical designs that account for the end-to-end technical solution of a system, in line with EY's Strategic and Enterprise Technology Goals

• For that, the candidate works closely and continuously with stakeholders to focus on meeting business requirements and incorporating broader aspects such as overall product costs/revenue, data privacy & sovereignty, business continuity, information security, integration with other systems, etc.

• The candidate works with vendors to assess vendor products, understand vendor's delivery models and assist in implementing them at EY.

• A solution architect can work across multiple projects with varied stakeholders. The candidate sets architectural direction, builds consensus, mediates conflicts providing technical leadership and consulting services to the business.

• The candidate anticipates needs and potential objections and helps to create an environment which solicits positive contributions from all participants: Solution and Technical Architects, engineering teams, product manager, project managers, Information Security and Operations.

• The candidate has 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.

• Solution design will include the creation of reusable, repeatable IP and artifacts

• Lead Agile sprints in product owner capacity and mentor technical staff on newer design sprints

• Enforce adherence to architectural standards/principles, global product-specific guidelines, usability experience and design standards, etc.

• Identify, communicate and mitigate Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Decisions throughout the development lifecycle.

• Responsible to propose with a custom solutions & collaboration with business application owners, project managers, designers, engineers, and infrastructure teams to build a quality experience for users

Knowledge and Skills Requirements:

• To qualify for the role, you must have:

• Expert understanding of solution architecture.

• The ability to adopt and relate new technologies to the set of problems we face at EY while adhering to security and other EY standards

• The ability to communicate solutions, ideas, suggestions to a variety of (business) stakeholders effectively and comprehensibly

• Expert understanding of latest cloud computing and data technologies, business drivers, emerging cloud trends, and deployment options.

• Experience with Agile & DevSecOps methodologies

• Experience in Modern Application Design and development

• History of working credibly with senior stakeholders

• Adapts personal communication style to the style of others, develops rapport and stays calm under pressure or escalating issues using advanced oral and written English communication skills.

• Strong verbal and written skills including strong cross-cultural communication and the ability to draft effective communications

• Ability to work with people in a variety of cultures, countries and time zones

• Demonstrate excellent technical & architecture skills in the context of cloud-based platform/product design, service management and product lifecycle management

• Demonstrate ability to rapidly learn new and emerging technologies and developing a vision of their suitability

Technical Experience:

• Extensive working knowledge on Cloud application architect role using Azure PaaS and IaaS and SaaS services

• Subject matter expertise in Azure Microservices, Functions, Logic, Webapp or Digital services

• Experience in building Analytics platforms using Azure Data Factory, Databricks and PaaS SQL

• Experience with generative AI, specifically text based models. Experience with implementing RAG search using libraries such as langchain, llama_index, semantic kernel etc.

• Experience in architecting and designing Adobe PDF solutions and exposure to Azure Cognitive search tools is a huge plus.

• Experience with mission critical technology components with DR capabilities

• Experience with multi-geography, multi-tier service design and management

Experience:

A minimum of 15+ years overall IT industry experience

Advanced English

Remote