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The role combines solution architecture with engineering management: defining the technical approach, translating it into an executable delivery plan, and leading multidisciplinary engineers to deliver secure, resilient and maintainable outcomes.\nResponsibilities\nSolution architecture & technical direction\nDefine conceptual, logical, application, integration and deployment architectures aligned to business capabilities, functional requirements and non-functional requirements.\n\nOwn the end-to-end solution design across frontend, backend, integration, data, cloud and AI components, while engaging specialist architects where deeper expertise is required.\n\nEvaluate architectural options and trade-offs, recommend a clear direction, and document material decisions through architecture views, decision records and implementation guidance.\n\nDecompose solutions into coherent components and services, defining boundaries, interfaces, integration patterns and deployment approaches that 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outcomes.\n\nPartner with delivery and product leadership on scope, priorities, capacity and trade-offs, ensuring commitments remain technically credible and achievable.\n\nSupport team formation, onboarding and capability planning, contributing to recruitment and the effective deployment of engineering talent.\n\nEngineering excellence & team development\nEstablish and reinforce practical engineering standards for coding, testing, security, accessibility, documentation, source control, CI/CD and operational readiness.\n\nCreate an environment in which engineers receive clear direction, constructive feedback, coaching and opportunities to grow their technical leadership.\n\nMentor engineers and technical leads, strengthening design thinking, problem solving, ownership and communication across the team.\n\nPromote effective peer review, design review and architecture governance proportionate to delivery risk and complexity.\n\nDrive continuous improvement using delivery evidence, production insight and team feedback, with a focus on quality, flow, predictability and sustainable ways of working.\n\nEncourage reuse through reference implementations, patterns, shared components and engineering accelerators where these provide demonstrable value.\n\nTechnology strategy, cloud & AI-enabled engineering\nEvaluate and recommend technology stacks, frameworks, platforms and cloud services based on business fit, engineering capability, lifecycle, risk and total cost of ownership.\n\nApply appropriate modern architecture patterns, including API-first, event-driven, domain-oriented, serverless and microservices approaches, without treating any pattern as the default.\n\nGuide cloud-native and hybrid solution design in line with reliability, security, FinOps and operational excellence principles.\n\nIdentify opportunities to use generative AI within solutions and engineering workflows where it creates measurable value.\n\nEstablish practical guardrails for AI-assisted architecture, development, testing, documentation and operations, maintaining traceability, governance and human oversight.\n\nContribute to technology modernisation, platform engineering and engineering productivity initiatives.\n\nStakeholder, governance & commercial contribution\nWork closely with clients, product owners, delivery managers, security, operations and engineering stakeholders to align solution decisions with outcomes and constraints.\n\nCommunicate architecture and engineering decisions clearly to technical and non-technical audiences, including implications, risks and recommended actions.\n\nLead technical design workshops, architecture reviews and engineering deep dives, ensuring decisions are understood and followed through.\n\nContribute to pursuits, proposals, discovery, solution shaping, estimation, delivery planning and technical due diligence.\n\nProvide transparent reporting on technical progress, architecture decisions, engineering health, dependencies and risks.\n\nTo qualify for the role, you must have\n10+ years of software engineering experience, including significant responsibility for enterprise-scale solution delivery.\n\nDemonstrated experience leading and developing multidisciplinary engineering teams, either as an Engineering Manager, Technical Lead or equivalent.\n\nProven experience defining solution architectures from concept through implementation and operational transition.\n\nStrong engineering depth across frontend, backend, integration and cloud platforms, with the judgement to engage specialists when required.\n\nExperience planning and governing complex technical delivery, including estimation, dependencies, quality, risk and stakeholder management.\n\nExperience designing and delivering secure, resilient cloud-native applications and selecting technology stacks for varied solution contexts.\n\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.\n\nIdeally, you’llalso have\nMaster's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.\n\nA recognised architecture certification, such as TOGAF or equivalent.\n\nA cloud solution or platform architecture certification.\n\nRelevant training or certification in AI-enabled or AI-native solution architecture.\n\nSkills and attributes for success\nThe successful candidate will demonstrate ability to:\nMake sound technology and architecture decisions aligned to business outcomes.\n\nEstablish clear engineering direction for delivery teams.\n\nDeliver secure, resilient, cloud-native, and AI-native architectures.\n\nAccelerate engineering productivity through standards, patterns, and reusable assets.\n\nCommunicate effectively and with impact.\n\nExpertise and competencies in:\n\nSystems Thinking\n\nArchitecture & Design\n\nTechnical Leadership\n\nStrategic Thinking\n\nSolution Evaluation & Trade-off Analysis\n\nDecision Making Under Ambiguity\n\nCloud-Native Architecture\n\nModern Engineering Practices\n\nAI-Enabled Engineering & SDLC\n\nStakeholder Management\n\nCoaching & Mentoring\n\nWhat we offer you\nAt EY, we’ll develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world-class experiences. We’ll empower you in a flexible environment, and fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams. Learn more.\nIn addition to a competitive salary, our benefits include but are not limited to:\n13th salary\n\nProvident Fund\n\nPrivate Medical and Life Insurance\n\nFlexible working arrangements (hybrid work and flexible work schedule)\n\nFriday afternoon off\n\nEY Tech MBA and EY MSc in Business Analytics\n\nEY Badges - digital learning certificates\n\nMobility programs (if interested to work abroad)\n\nPaid Sick Leave\n\nPaid Paternity Leave\n\nYearly wellbeing days off\n\nMaternity, Wedding and New Baby Gifts\n\nEY Employee Assistance Program (EAP) (counselling, legal and financial consultation services)\n\nAre you ready to shape your future with confidence? 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