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AI & Data - Applied AI Delivery Architect - Senior Manager
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At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence.
We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go.
Join EY and help to build a better working world.
AI & Data – Applied AI Delivery Architect – Senior Manager
General Information
Location: Dublin
Available for Work Visa Sponsorship: NO
Business Area: UKI AI & Data
Contract Type: Full-Time – Permanent
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
To qualify for the role, you must have
We offer a competitive remuneration package. Our comprehensive benefits 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:
All our employees are given a benefits package which they can tailor to suit their individual preferences. Our range of benefits include:
Career Progression
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.
Are you ready to shape your future with confidence? Apply today.
To help create the best experience during the recruitment process, please describe any disability-related adjustments or accommodations you may need.
If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.
IMPORTANT: Where Agency assistance is required, our Talent Team will engage directly with suppliers. CVs / Profiles should not be shared directly with Hiring Managers. Unsolicited CVs / Profiles supplied to EY by Recruitment Agencies will not be accepted for this role.
EY | Building a better working world
EY is building a better working world by creating new value for clients, people, society and the planet, while building trust in capital markets.
Enabled by data, AI and advanced technology, EY teams help clients shape the future with confidence and develop answers for the most pressing issues of today and tomorrow.
EY teams work across a full spectrum of services in assurance, consulting, tax, strategy and transactions. Fueled by sector insights, a globally connected, multi-disciplinary network and diverse ecosystem partners, EY teams can provide services in more than 150 countries and territories.
We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go.
Join EY and help to build a better working world.
AI & Data – Applied AI Delivery Architect – Senior Manager
General Information
Location: Dublin
Available for Work Visa Sponsorship: NO
Business Area: UKI AI & Data
Contract Type: Full-Time – Permanent
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-on 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.
- 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.
- Someone with experience building or scaling AI platforms or internal developer ecosystems.
- Candidates with experience leading technical discovery sessions with business stakeholders and engineering teams to define technology and hardware infrastructure requirements.
We offer a competitive remuneration package. Our comprehensive benefits 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:
- Pension
- Discounted health insurance
- Web Doctor – Free unlimited online GP consultations for you and your family
- The purchase of additional annual leave
- Hybrid Working
- Free Gym membership
- Travel Pass
- Maternity & Paternity leave
- Bike to work Scheme
- Recognition Awards
- Cash incentives for referrals
- Work Mobile
- Tech MBA paid by EY
- Wellness rooms available in some offices
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.
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.
Are you ready to shape your future with confidence? Apply today.
To help create the best experience during the recruitment process, please describe any disability-related adjustments or accommodations you may need.
If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.
IMPORTANT: Where Agency assistance is required, our Talent Team will engage directly with suppliers. CVs / Profiles should not be shared directly with Hiring Managers. Unsolicited CVs / Profiles supplied to EY by Recruitment Agencies will not be accepted for this role.
EY | Building a better working world
EY is building a better working world by creating new value for clients, people, society and the planet, while building trust in capital markets.
Enabled by data, AI and advanced technology, EY teams help clients shape the future with confidence and develop answers for the most pressing issues of today and tomorrow.
EY teams work across a full spectrum of services in assurance, consulting, tax, strategy and transactions. Fueled by sector insights, a globally connected, multi-disciplinary network and diverse ecosystem partners, EY teams can provide services in more than 150 countries and territories.