AI & Data - Applied AI Delivery Architect - Senior Manager

Business Area:EY AI & Data – Applied AI Delivery Architect – Senior Manager

Contract Type:Full-Time – Permanent 

EY exists to build a better working world, we empower our people by offering the culture, tech, teams, scale, challenges, learning, and the relationships for you to personalise and build your career,helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets. 

This role can be located in our offices across the Republic of Ireland, working across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today. 
 

The Team and the opportunity 

This role sits at the centre of how EY translates AI ambition into scalable, production ready solutions for clients. Through collaboration and domain expertise, our team embeds innovative AI & Data solutions into existing business areas, transforming data into strategic assets. We are looking for an AI Delivery Architect who is passionate about leveraging AI & data to solve complex problems and drive business outcomes. 

As an AI Delivery Architect at EY, you will act as a client embedded technical and architectural authority, responsible for shaping, designing, and delivering   enterprise‑grade AI solutions from concept to scaled production 

You will work closely with EY Partners, account leaders, and senior client executives to translate AI ambition into secure, compliant, and production-ready architectures that withstand regulatory scrutiny and operate in complex enterprise environments. 

This role combines deep AI architecture expertise, hands‑on delivery leadership, and commercial accountability, with a strong emphasis on Responsible AI, risk management, and sustainable client enablement. 

Your Key Responsibilities 

• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to EY Partners and C-suite client stakeholders, shaping AI strategies and target architectures aligned to client business priorities, risk appetite, and regulatory context. 

• Define and own end-to-end AI solution architectures, including GenAI platforms (RAG, agents, copilots), ML platforms and model lifecycle management, data, integration, and API layers. 

• Design AI architectures that meet enterprise standards for security, resilience, auditability, and regulatory compliance, while navigating complex governance and legacy constraints. 

• Provide senior-level technical oversight during delivery, escalation, and production stabilisation, and lead the transition of AI solutions from PoV to scaled production, ensuring performance, reliability, and business adoption. 

• Embed EY Responsible AI principles into all AI architectures, partnering with Risk, Legal, and Compliance teams to implement governance frameworks, model risk controls, and human oversight mechanisms.  

• Ensure AI solutions are auditable and defensible, supporting clients through regulatory discussions and scrutiny from boards, regulators, and external auditors. 

• Support client growth and pursuits by shaping solution approaches, contributing to proposals, and demonstrating technical credibility. 

• Guide multidisciplinary teams across AI engineers, data scientists, and consultants, establishing best practices, coding standards, and architectural patterns. 

• Act as a senior technical leader within EY, shaping standards, mentoring teams, and contributing to the development of AI capabilities and assets. 

• Contribute to EY AI accelerators, frameworks, and reference architectures 

• Capture reusable patterns and lessons learned across engagements 

• Support go-to-market activities and thought leadership 

To qualify for the role, you must have. 

• 7+ years in enterprise technology, architecture, or AI engineering roles 

• Proven experience delivering AI/ML or GenAI solutions in production environments 

• Advanced LLM/RAG engineering: prompt pipelines, embeddings, vector stores (FAISS/Milvus/Pinecone), hybrid retrieval, grounding, hallucination mitigation and evaluation frameworks. 

• Experience working in consulting, advisory, or large enterprise delivery contexts 

• Demonstrated success engaging with senior client stakeholders 

• Strong hands son experience with LLMs, prompt engineering, RAG architectures, AI orchestration, machine learning pipelines and model lifecycle management in enterprise environments 

• Experience with data platforms, APIs, and distributed systems 

• Experience designing architectures on at least one major cloud platform (Azure-preferred, AWS, GCP) 

• Demonstrated ability to lead multi‑disciplinary teams (engineering, data science, architecture, product, design) through complex delivery cycles. 

Preferred Skills: 

• Experience in regulated industries (Financial Services, Public Sector, Health, Energy) 

• Familiarity with AI governance frameworks and model risk management practices 

• Prior experience within a Big 4 or global consultancy 

• Experience building or scaling AI platforms or internal developer ecosystems 

• Experience leading technical discovery sessions with business stakeholders and engineering teams to define technology and hardware infrastructure requirements. 

What working at EY offers 

We offer a competitive remuneration package. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings, and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer: 

• Support and coaching from some of the most engaging colleagues around 

• Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career. 

• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you. 

All our employees are given a benefits package which they can tailor to suit their individual preferences. Our range of benefits include: 

EY is committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We strive to achieve the right balance for our people, enabling us to deliver excellent client service whilst allowing you to build your career without sacrificing your personal priorities. While our client-facing professionals can be required to travel regularly, and at times be based at client sites, our flexible working arrangements can help you to achieve a lifestyle balance. 

Career Progression 

• When you join EY, you will be supported to ensure that you are enhancing your skills from day one. 

• Continuous learning, where you can develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next. 

• As you grow and develop here, you’ll discover opportunities to help customise your career journey, so that it’s as unique as you are - success is defined by you, we will provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way. 

• Transformative leadership, we will give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs. 

• Diverse and inclusive culture, you will be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs. 

• We have embraced Hybrid working at EY adding greater flexibility and autonomy to the roles of our employees. 

About EY 

As a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction, and advisory services, we’re using the finance products, expertise, and systems we’ve developed to build a better working world. That starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities, and creative freedom to make things better. Whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime. 

Inclusion & Diversity 

We hold a collective commitment to foster an environment where all differences are valued and respected, practices are equitable and everyone experiences a sense of belonging: Inclusion, diversity, and equity are part of who we are at EY. We believe that the highest-performing teams maximize the power of different perspectives and backgrounds. These teams are both diverse and inclusive and are willing to invite and learn from other perspectives. Our ability to include various viewpoints into our mindsets, behaviours and operations is fundamental to driving innovation, building strong relationships, and delivering the best solutions for our clients. 

We recognise the strength that comes from having a diverse workforce and building a culture where we support all our people to achieve their potential. You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs. 

As an equal opportunities’ employer, we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. Reasonable accommodations are offered at every stage of our recruitment process. 

If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible. 

Join us in building a better working world.That’s Why, EY. 

Apply now.