FS Technology Consulting – AI and Data – AI Architecture & Engineering Lead – Senior Manager - Dublin

General Information

Location: Dublin

Available for VISA Sponsorship: Yes

Business Area: Data & Analytics

Contract Type: Full Time - Permanent

EY is the only major professional services firm with an integrated Financial Services practice across Europe, the Middle East, India, and Africa (EMEIA). We connect our Asset Management, Banking and Capital Markets and Insurance clients to 6,500 talented people from 12 countries and 35,000 Financial Services colleagues around the world.

In EY FS Ireland, we are expanding our Consulting practice and building our Technology Consulting team as a key component of our NextWave Strategy. NextWave is EY’s global strategy and ambition to deliver long-term value to clients, people, and society. It is inspired by the way innovations spread through society. We are actively recruiting high achieving individuals with AI and Data expertise in data-enabled transformation projects/ programmes within Financial Services: Banking, Insurance and Wealth and Asset management.

The opportunity

This is your chance to lead the future of AI at EY Ireland for Financial Services. As a hands-on architecture & engineering lead, you will design enterprise-grade AI solutions (Agentic & Gen-AI). You will work with cutting-edge technologies and collaborate across diverse teams to deliver impactful, scalable AI systems. This role offers the opportunity to design AI strategy and build solutions that align with global standards and regulatory frameworks for Financial Services.

This role blends deep hands‑on engineering, consulting judgment, and client‑facing delivery ownership. You will carry solutions from concept through production and enable clients to sustainably operate and evolve their AI capabilities.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Strategy & POV: Shape technical policies and architecture for AI and autonomous systems to strengthen competitive advantage.
• Client Consulting: Lead executive workshops to identify high-value AI use cases, assess readiness, and create ethical adoption roadmaps. Collaborate with stakeholders to align architecture with strategy.
• Solution Structuring: Turn business challenges into actionable technical plans compliant with data governance and security standards.
• Pre-Sales: Act as subject matter expert, supporting sales teams in structuring and estimating complex AI projects.
• Practice Enablement: Integrate AI practice across competencies by leading training and platform expertise development.
• Agent Design: Architect multi-step autonomous agent systems using LLMs, vector databases, and orchestration frameworks with a focus on scale and reliability.
• Architecture Governance: Set technical standards and QA processes for AI and MLOps workflows.
• Tooling Evaluation: Recommend AI tools and platforms based on performance and cost.
• Ethical Oversight: Ensure AI strategies and systems follow ethical principles and minimize risks like bias and privacy issues.
• Documentation: Keep thorough, accurate records of methodologies, architectures, and recommendations.
• As a key team member, foster a positive learning culture by coaching junior staff and sharing best practices and industry knowledge.

Skills and Attributes for Success

To qualify for the role, you must have:

Demonstrated expertise in technical consulting and AI architecture, acquired through extensive professional experience, including:

• Background in Technical Consulting or Professional Services, with a proven track record as a billable, client-facing specialist.
• Advanced skills in designing and deploying production-ready AI solutions and Large Language Model (LLM) workflows.
• Proven experience in building and orchestrating autonomous AI agents encompassing reasoning, tool utilization, and multi-step planning.
• Expert proficiency in leading AI frameworks.
• Comprehensive knowledge of cloud computing platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, and related MLOps tools.
• Preferred experience with low-code/no-code AI agent builder platforms (e.g., Flowise, LlamaIndex).
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication abilities.

AI Skills

• Comprehensive AI skills across Agentic AI, Document Intelligence, Time Series, and multimodal GenAI.
• Usage of PyTorch/TensorFlow and Hugging Face; integration of ML into enterprise pipelines.
• Design of organization‑level evaluation and scoring frameworks (text, vision, multimodal) with release gates (R/A/G).
• Governance: alignment to EU AI Act; model/prompt/data versioning; audit logs; risk management. Exposure on control plane solutions in the market
• LLM Strategy: evaluate and standardize across providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Mistral, Llama) and vector platforms (Pinecone/Weaviate/Milvus).
• Cloud: multi‑cloud and hybrid architecture across AWS, Azure, and GCP; reliability/SLOs; cost/tokens governance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Financial Services is preferred.
• MSc or PhD in a relevant field, or equivalent senior industry experience.
• Experience in designing evaluation frameworks and release gates for AI models.
• Knowledge of vector platforms like Pinecone, Weaviate, and Milvus.
  
  

What We Look For

We are looking for innovative thinkers who are passionate about AI and eager to contribute to enterprise AI Strategy for financial services. You will thrive in a collaborative environment, bring a purpose-driven mindset, and embrace inclusivity. If you are agile, curious, and ready to lead transformative projects, we want to hear from you.

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 is 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

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 are using the finance products, expertise, and systems we have 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 will 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.

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