Solutions Architect

Technology has always been at the heart of what we do and deliver at EY. We need technology to keep an organization the size of ours working efficiently. We have 250,000 people in more than 140 countries, all of whom rely on secure technology to be able to do their job every single day. Everything from the laptops we use, to the ability to work remotely on our mobile devices and connecting our people and our clients, to enabling hundreds of internal tools and external solutions delivered to our clients. Technology solutions are integrated in the client services we deliver and is key to us being more innovative as an organization.

EY Technology supports our technology needs through three business units:

Client Technology (CT) - focuses on developing new technology services for our clients. It enables EY to identify new technology-based opportunities faster, and pursue those opportunities more rapidly.

Enterprise Workplace Technology (EWT) - EWT supports our Core Business Services functions and will deliver fit-for-purpose technology infrastructure at the cheapest possible cost for quality services. EWT will also support our internal technology needs by focusing on a better user experience.

Information Security (Info Sec) - Info Sec prevents, detects, responds and mitigates cyber-risk, protecting EY and client data, and our information management systems.

Job Description:

EY is a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services. The insights and quality services we deliver help build trust and confidence in the capital markets and in economies the world over. As a Solution Architect, you will be responsible for delivering solution designs and architectures for key global initiatives using COTS, MOTS and custom developed applications hosted using IaaS, PaaS and SaaS hosting models. Our mission is to help build a better working world and we can't do it without the right people - exceptional people who want to work with the best, develop their skills as leaders and create positive change.

Essential Functions of the Job:

• Architect and design solutions to meet functional and non-functional requirements
• Create and review architecture and solution design artifacts
• Evangelize re-use through implementation of shared assets
• Enforce adherence to architectural standards/principles, global product-specific guidelines, usability design standards, etc.
• Proactively provide guidance on engineering methodologies, standards and leading practices
• Guidance of engineering staff and reviews of as-built configurations during construction phase
• Provide insight and direction on roles and responsibilities required for solution operations
• Identify, communicate and mitigate Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Decisions throughout full lifecycle

Analytical/Decision Making Responsibilities:

• Considers the art of the possible, compares various architectural options based on feasibility and impact, and proposes actionable plans
• Demonstrates strong analytical and technical problem-solving skills
• Ability to analyze and operate at various levels of abstraction
• Ability to balance what is strategically right with what is practically realistic

Knowledge and Skills Requirements:

• Excellent technical architecture skills, enabling the creation of future-proof, complex global solutions
• 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.
• Ability to rapidly gain knowledge of the organizational structure of the firm to facilitate work with groups outside of the immediate technical team.
• Knowledge and experience in IT methodologies and life cycles that will be used.
• Familiar with solution implementation/management, service/operations management, etc.
• Maintains close awareness of new and emerging technologies and their potential application for service offerings and products.

Supervision Responsibilities:

The role is primarily an individual contributor in a global Solution Architecture team; works with architecture leaders and peers, project managers, engineers, business analysts and business stakeholders to drive a project's progress and ensure success.

Other Requirements:

• Overtime and vacation scheduling are dependent upon team priorities and may change during the course of a year.
• Position may be eligible for alternative work locations dependent upon team dynamics.
• Must be able to communicate fluently in English, both written and verbal.
• Position requires accurate and timely tracking of time spent working on projects

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalency (CS, CE, CIS, IS, MIS, or engineering discipline)
• Minimum of 15+ years overall IT industry experience
• Minimum of 3+ years in a solution architecture role using service and hosting solutions such as private/public cloud IaaS, PaaS and SaaS platforms.
• Experience in architecting and designing technical solutions for Microsoft-centric solutions based on industry standards using Azure IaaS, PaaS and SaaS capabilities.
• Experience with any of the following: O365, Azure, Azure Stack, Azure AD
• Experience with claims based authentication (SAML/OAuth/OIDC), MFA, and RBAC
• Knowledge of cloud security controls including tenant isolation, encryption at rest, encryption in transit, key management, vulnerability assessments, application firewalls, SIEM, etc.
• Experience building and supporting mission critical technology components with DR capabilities
• Experience with multi-tier system and service design and development for large enterprises
• Extensive, real-world experience designing technology components for enterprise solutions and defining solution architectures and reference architectures with a focus on cloud technologies

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with configuration management and automation tools such as Ansible, DSC, Puppet, Chef, Salt, etc.
• Experience with relational, graph and/or unstructured data technologies such as SQL Server, Azure SQL, Azure Data Lake, HD Insights, Hadoop, Cloudera, MongoDB, MySQL, Neo4j, Cassandra, Couchbase
• Software development full lifecycle methodologies, patterns, frameworks, libraries and tools
• Knowledge of programming and scripting languages such as JavaScript, PowerShell, Bash, SQL, .NET, Java, Python, PHP, Ruby, PERL, C++, etc.
• Experience with data ingestion technologies such as Aspera, MoveIT, Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Pentaho, Alteryx
• Experience with visualization tools such as Tableau, Spotfire, Power BI, D3, Scrapinghub
• Experience with analytics tools including SPSS
• Experience with machine learning tools such as Azure ML, IBM, AWS, etc.
• Experience in distilling complex technical challenges to actionable decisions for stakeholders and guiding project teams by building consensus and mediating compromises when necessary.
• Experience coordinating the intersection of complex system dependencies and interactions
• Experience in solution delivery using common methodologies especially SAFe Agile but also Waterfall, Iterative etc.
• Demonstrated knowledge of relevant industry trends and standards

Technical Requirements:

• Exposure to infrastructure and application security technologies and approaches
• Familiarity with requirements gathering techniques.

Certification Requirements (at least one):

• Microsoft, TOGAF, Zachman, ITIL, CCNA, CISSP, PMP, etc.