Client Technology, Engineering

About the Role

This is an architecture role for an individual who combines strategic judgment with practical engineering delivery. The successful applicant will shape direction and define robust designs, while staying close to implementation through prototyping, code and design reviews, technical problem-solving, and direct collaboration with engineering teams. You will be part of the Client Technology Architecture function and will work within a team leading key aspects of the architecture of EY Fabric, a global foundational technology platform for building, running, and scaling technology solutions. The role spans the full delivery lifecycle, from shaping product vision and roadmaps to hands-on coding and engineering.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with Product Managers and other stakeholders to understand business needs, clarify requirements, and translate them into pragmatic product and platform architecture.
• Lead aspects of the EY Fabric architecture, owning or guiding the technology and design direction for assigned platform capabilities.
• Ensure designs work coherently across EY Fabric, including its platform APIs, developer workflows, portal and user experience, reusable cloud capabilities, identity and access patterns, data services, observability, and integration points.
• Produce clear architecture blueprints, designs, architectural decision records, reference patterns, and implementation guidance.
• Design secure, scalable, and reusable services, APIs, integration patterns, datastores, user-facing capabilities, and common platform components.
• Work directly with engineering teams to turn architecture into working software, including hands-on prototyping, proof-of-concept development, code review, pair design, troubleshooting, and design assurance.
• Solve complex problems where an established solution may not exist by evaluating technologies, testing assumptions, considering build-versus-buy options, and presenting evidence-based recommendations.
• Provide technical leadership throughout delivery, ensuring implemented solutions align with the intended architecture, quality expectations, and enterprise standards.
• Participate in product and delivery planning, estimation, and forecasting; manage architecture work and technical debt; balance cost, risk, quality, security, maintainability, and time to market.
• Mentor engineers and architects, encourage experimentation and knowledge sharing, and contribute to architecture and engineering communities.
• Monitor relevant technology and industry trends, including AI-assisted engineering, and apply them responsibly where they provide measurable value.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Significant experience in solution or technical architecture within complex, large-scale product or internal developer platform environments.
• Demonstrable hands-on software engineering capability in at least one modern language such as C#, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, or Python.
• Broad architecture experience across cloud-native applications, integration, data, and security.
• Practical Microsoft Azure or other cloud experience across compute, storage, networking, security, and identity, including Entra ID, RBAC, Key Vault, Azure Policy, and tenant-aware identity patterns.
• Expertise designing distributed and scalable products and platforms using APIs, microservices, containers, and Kubernetes, preferably AKS, across cloud or hybrid environments.
• Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, and DevSecOps practices.
• Knowledge of modern API design and API Management.
• Understanding of secure-by-design practices, compliance expectations, in-application security, and operation within enterprise technology standards.
• Experience designing for reusability, reliability, maintainability, observability, performance, cost optimization, and effective technical debt management.
• Working knowledge of architecture and design patterns, including microservices, containerized systems, event-driven architecture, data streaming, and data platforms.
• Strong analytical, collaboration, and communication skills.

Desirable Experience

• InnerSource, internal developer platforms, reusable engineering assets, platform marketplaces, or shared-services models.
• AI-assisted and agentic engineering tools and workflows.
• Low-code or no-code capabilities, workflow automation, enterprise user-experience patterns, data management, or data governance.
• Architecture or security certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure Security Engineer, TOGAF, SAFe, or comparable credentials.
• A relevant degree or equivalent practical experience in engineering, computer science, information technology, or a related discipline.

Qualifications

• A self-starting, collaborative architect who enjoys solving difficult problems and taking responsibility for outcomes.
• Credible with senior stakeholders and engineering teams, comfortable operating across multiple initiatives, and willing to engage directly in design and implementation detail.
• Views architecture as an active delivery discipline and can lead through both influence and practical contribution.