Solution Architect

Lead the overall technology, architecture and design landscape of the product/platform from planning/solutioning to delivery to adoption and sale phases; with hands-on experience in realizing the architecture and design to production-grade enterprise deployments of large global scale (involving hundreds of engineering team members working from multiple locations and hundreds/thousands of users).

Understand business requirements, strategy and help in building product/platform roadmaps; demonstrate leadership to translate these into architecture blueprints, as well as high and low level design; work very closely with multi-disciplinary teams (e.g. engineering, platform, infosec) for the implementation using optimized delivery approaches, in compliance to enterprise standards, practices, policies and guidelines.

Expert level hands-on experience in -

o Application (primarily custom), cloud platforms (Azure - preferred/GCP/AWS) and their services, integration, data and security architectures; and various design patterns in these areas.

o Designing and implementing cloud native, full-stack custom applications (using microservices, containers, javascript based UI frameworks, .Net - preferred/C++/java/python), data (sql, nosql, bigdata and analytics), security, various AI technologies (ML, NLP, RPA and others); following Agile, DevSecOps and automation practices.

Lead the ideation and incubation of the new solutions/ways of working/technologies, technical feasibility and buy/build analysis, vendor product evaluations, proof of concepts (with hands-on) and presenting various options to the business with appropriate recommendations.

Provide coaching, mentoring and support to development teams during the delivery phase across the eco-system, frameworks and platforms. Ensure that the developed artifacts comply to envisioned architecture and design, expected quality, recommended standards/practices with code reviews and various levels of reviews.

Provide leadership in product delivery to build and consume reusable functional and technical assets. Identify, define and implement the reusable assets and standards.

Provide support to product and project managers in building the plans, forecast, estimations and costs for new as well as existing products/platforms, to build the appropriate balance between costs, risks and quality.

Potentially lead a team of architects in a portfolio or large product, set the overall technology and architecture direction and own its end-to-end delivery in an lead architect s capacity, along with providing constant architecture governance and guidance.

Demonstrate good interpersonal communication and organizational skills that are required to operate as a leading member of global, distributed teams that deliver quality services and solutions.

Maintain insight into the broader enterprise as well as industry trends. Understand new trends and emerging technologies, and how they apply to EY.

Strong collaboration, analytical, interpersonal and communication abilities.

Bachelor s Degree or equivalent in Engineering, Computer Science, IT, Mathematics, Economics; with 15+ (for Associate Director rank) or 10+ (for Assistant Director rank) years of experience

Achieved one or more of the typical solution and technical architecture certifications e.g. Microsoft, MS Azure Certification, TOGAF, AWS Cloud Certified, Pivotal, CISSIP, Zachman, ITIL, Cisco, (ISC)2, CEH, SAFe, PMI, and SAP etc.

Thought leadership - presenting ideas, products, concept papers to varied audiences, building point of views and presenting them in industry forums/event.

Experience in designing and implementation of business use-cases using low-code/no-code, Generative AI, data reporting, data management and governance technologies, mobile applications, deep cloud security concepts.