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This initiative translates advanced capabilities into measurable outcomes, helping clients and EY teams improve decision-making, strengthen resilience, and unlock new opportunities through technology-driven solutions.\nThe Next-Generation AI team helps EY teams turn emerging AI capabilities into practical, secure, and governable solutions. The team builds small, high-fidelity experiments to test what AI can realistically do before decisions on scale or production are made. We work closely with EY teams to translate real business and engineering pain points into rapid, value-focused prototypes.\nNextGen AI Manager - Technical Innovation, for the Next-Gen AI team provides technical expertise to assess emerging AI capabilities and explore their application to business and client challenges. Drawing on prior hands-on experience designing and building AI/ML solutions, the Manager evaluates relevant technologies, models and architectures and translates technical findings into practical experimentation opportunities. The role works with account teams to understand client problems, identify potential Frontier AI applications, and help shape focused prototypes and experiments. The Manager provides technical guidance to engineering teams, reviews technology choices, and surfaces feasibility considerations, risks and trade-offs during experimentation. The role supports Next-Gen AI leadership with technical insights and recommendations to inform decisions on which opportunities should be explored further.\nYour key responsibilities\n\nEmerging AI Technology Scouting & Assessment:\nMaintain a strong understanding of developments across next-generation AI, including emerging models, agent architectures, frameworks, open-source technologies, infrastructure patterns, and adjacent technologies.\nConduct hands-on technical assessments of emerging capabilities to understand their maturity, limitations, enterprise applicability, and potential areas of value.\nDistinguish meaningful technical advances from market hype and summarize implications for the Next-Gen AI team.\nBring technically grounded insights and recommendations to leadership on areas that may warrant further exploration.\nTechnical Opportunity Identification:\nReview business and client challenges surfaced by account teams and assess whether emerging AI capabilities could offer a relevant or differentiated approach.\nIdentify connections between evolving technology capabilities and problems where traditional or currently available approaches may be insufficient.\nDevelop initial technical hypotheses for how promising capabilities could be explored through focused experiments or prototypes.\nProvide leadership with technical perspectives on feasibility, maturity, dependencies, and potential value before decisions are made to pursue an opportunity.\nExperiment & Prototype Technical Shaping:\nHelp translate selected opportunities into technically meaningful experiments with clear hypotheses and evaluation criteria.\nRecommend appropriate models, architectures, frameworks, data approaches, and technology components for experimentation.\nWork closely with engineering teams to provide technical direction, review proposed approaches, and challenge design decisions where appropriate.\nIdentify technical risks, constraints, and trade-offs early and recommend practical alternatives.\nTechnical Evaluation & Learning:\nDefine approaches to evaluate experiments across dimensions such as capability, accuracy, reliability, performance, cost, security, and enterprise readiness.\nAnalyze experiment outcomes and determine what the results indicate about the underlying technology and its applicability.\nCapture technical learnings, reusable patterns, and limitations to inform future experimentation across the portfolio.\nProvide evidence-based recommendations to leadership on whether a capability should be explored further, refined, monitored, or deprioritized.\nTechnical Ecosystem Engagement:\nEngage with engineers, technology partners, startups, open-source communities, and EY technical specialists to remain close to emerging developments.\nAssess technology and alliance capabilities from a technical perspective and identify where external expertise or platforms could accelerate experimentation.\nConnect relevant technical expertise into experiments when specialist capabilities are required.\nAnalytical/Decision Making Responsibilities:\nExamine new AI methods and delivery patterns to determine where they are feasible, responsible, and worth piloting.\nApply governance, security, and compliance requirements consistently across the experiment-to-delivery lifecycle, ensuring alignment with EY processes.\nUse evidence and outcome signals to make timely trade-offs, re-prioritize work, and steer teams toward the highest-impact results in a fast-moving environment.\nSkills and attributes for success\n\nBackground in AI/ML, software engineering, data engineering, or solution architecture.\nPrior hands-on experience building AI/ML and GenAI solutions.\nExperience assessing emerging AI technologies and working with engineering teams.\nTools & stack you may touch:\nProgramming: Python, SQL\nAI Platforms: Azure OpenAI / Azure AI Foundry, OpenAI API, etc.\nAI Frameworks: LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, Hugging Face\nRetrieval / Vector: Azure AI Search, Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector\nKnowledge Graphs: Neo4j\nDevelopment: GitHub, Docker, Kubernetes\nML / Evaluation: MLflow, model evaluation and benchmarking tool\n8+ years in AI/ML engineering, software engineering, data engineering, solution architecture, or related technical roles.\nDemonstrated prior hands-on experience designing and building AI/ML or GenAI solutions.\nExperience evaluating emerging AI technologies, architectures, models, and frameworks for enterprise applicability.\nExperience working with engineering teams and providing technical guidance across prototypes, pilots, or production solutions.\nStrong understanding of enterprise AI constraints, including privacy, security, governance, integration, scalability, and cost.\nExcellent written/verbal communication skills with the ability to engage confidently with technical and senior stakeholders.\n\nWhat we offer\nEY Global Delivery Services (GDS) is a dynamic and truly global delivery network. We work across nine locations - Argentina, Hungary, India, the Philippines, Poland, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Spain and the United Kingdom - and with teams from all EY service lines, geographies and sectors, playing a vital role in the delivery of the EY growth strategy. From accountants to coders to advisory consultants, we offer a wide variety of fulfilling career opportunities that span all business disciplines. In GDS, you will collaborate with EY teams on exciting projects and work with well-known brands from across the globe. We’ll introduce you to an ever-expanding ecosystem of people, learning, skills and insights that will stay with you throughout your career.\nContinuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.\nSuccess as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.\nTransformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.\nDiverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.\nAbout EY\nEY | Building a better working world\nEY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets.\nEnabled by data and technology, diverse EY teams in over 150 countries provide trust through assurance and help clients grow, transform and operate.\nWorking across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today.\nIf you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.\nThe exceptional EY experience. 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