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Join EY and help to build a better working world.\nThe opportunity\nThe next generation of AI services needs a platform that can absorb rapid change without passing every new model, runtime, and control challenge to delivery teams. You will architect that foundation, bringing portable model access, dependable agent execution, automated release evidence, deep observability, and elastic infrastructure into one coherent product.\nThis is a high-impact role for a systems thinker who wants to stay close to code, telemetry, capacity, and users. You will shape durable patterns across cloud and hybrid environments, align senior stakeholders on practical trade-offs, and make the trusted route from an idea to a production outcome the route teams naturally choose.\nAbout Challenger\nChallenger is a new EY program focused on building the firm’s next generation of services. It pursues opportunities where AI enables a fundamentally different service and way of delivering it, including rethinking existing offerings and developing new ones.\nSmall, dedicated teams build and test ideas in real conditions. Solutions that demonstrate clear business value and operational readiness transition to the business for adoption and scale.\nChallenger Core develops and maintains the shared technology, methods, and risk and quality guardrails that support this work. Each team contributes reusable tools and practices, helping make the next service faster and less costly to build.\nYour key responsibilities\nSet the platform direction. Own the AI platform vision, reference architecture, roadmap, and non-functional standards across cloud, hybrid, and approved edge environments.\nRun the platform as a product. Understand developer needs, define clear service tiers and golden paths, prioritize the roadmap, and measure adoption and time to value.\nEnable portable model access. Design gateways and stable contracts that support model choice, policy-aware routing, resilience, and controlled experimentation without hiding important trade-offs.\nArchitect elastic foundations. Shape the compute, storage, and network capabilities needed for AI workloads, balancing performance, regional constraints, resilience, and cost.\nAutomate the path to production. Create repeatable delivery patterns that promote code and AI assets together, with progressive release, rollback, and evidence built into the process.\nDefine trusted agent runtimes. Establish secure execution patterns for tools, identities, approvals, isolation, recovery, and replay so agent behavior remains controlled and understandable.\nEngineer for reliability. Set service objectives, observability standards, recovery patterns, and resilience exercises that make platform health measurable and operationally useful.\nMake economics visible. Connect usage, performance, and quality signals so teams can improve unit economics without weakening reliability or user outcomes.\nGuide strategic choices. Lead build-versus-buy and portability decisions with engineering, product, security, risk, procurement, and finance partners.\nBuild capability. Mentor platform engineers and SREs, strengthen architecture practices, and help teams turn emerging technology into reusable production patterns.\nSkills and attributes for success\nSystems architecture: Deep understanding of distributed systems and cloud-native architecture, with sound judgment about where abstraction creates value or hidden coupling.\nAI platform depth: Strong knowledge of model serving, inference gateways, AI lifecycle automation, evaluation integration, and agent runtime patterns.\nPlatform product mindset: Ability to turn developer needs into intuitive self-service capabilities, durable interfaces, and an adoption-focused roadmap.\nOperational excellence: Practical command of observability, SRE, performance, capacity, resilience, recovery, and incident learning.\nTrust by design: Ability to embed security, policy, delivery assurance, and traceable evidence into platform architecture and engineering workflows.\nInfluential leadership: Clear communication, pragmatic decision-making, and the ability to align executives and technical teams around complex trade-offs.\nTo qualify you must have\nBachelor’s Degree in a relevant field of study.\n9-12+ years of relevant experience.\nRelevant experience: Substantial experience designing and operating cloud, infrastructure, SRE, or platform capabilities, including responsibility for production AI workloads.\nPlatform delivery: A record of building a shared platform adopted by multiple product teams, with measurable improvement in speed, reliability, or cost.\nCloud architecture: Deep experience in at least one major cloud and strong judgment about portable patterns for hybrid or multi-cloud constraints.\nHands-on engineering: Practical depth in orchestration, networking, identity, infrastructure as code, delivery automation, APIs, and production observability.\nAI operations: Experience operating model-serving and AI lifecycle capabilities, including release controls, evaluation, capacity, service objectives, and incident learning.\nArchitecture judgment: Demonstrated ability to make build-versus-buy decisions and explain the operational, commercial, and technical consequences.\nCross-functional leadership: Experience leading complex programs, influencing senior stakeholders, and raising engineering capability through mentoring.\nTravel and On-site requirements: This role requires up to 50% travel and flexibility to go into the office in a hybrid capacity. \nIdeally, you’ll also have\nInference at scale: Experience operating high-volume or latency-sensitive inference and optimizing accelerator capacity across regions or environments.\nAgent platforms: Experience with agent runtimes, tool gateways, sandboxed execution, or policy-aware multi-agent environments.\nCost and performance: Practical FinOps and performance-engineering experience for AI or other compute-intensive workloads.\nIndustry contribution: Contributions to cloud-native, observability, AI platform, interoperability, open-source, standards, or research communities.\nBroader perspective: Experience translating emerging capabilities across multiple providers or technology ecosystems into stable enterprise patterns.\nWe welcome exceptional candidates from product, service design, operations, transformation, policy, domain, and entrepreneurial backgrounds; no particular degree or certification is required.\nWhat we offer you\nAt EY, we harness our collective strength to empower you to shape your future with confidence through professional growth, personal fulfillment and an inclusive culture. Learn more at ey.com/us/careers.\nWe offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to the business. The base salary range for this job is: New York City, Boston, and Washington DC Metro Areas, Washington State, and Southern California offices - $172,800 to $359,000\nBay Area California offices - $180,000 to $374,000\nAll other offices locations in the US, including Sacramento - $144,000 to $329,100\n\nIndividual salaries within these ranges are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and geography. In addition, our Total Rewards package includes medical and dental coverage, pension and 401(k) plans, and a wide range of paid time off options.\nUnder our flexible vacation policy, you’ll decide how much vacation time you need based on your own personal circumstances. You’ll also be granted time off for designated EY Paid Holidays, Winter/Summer breaks, Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.\nAre you ready to shape your future with confidence? Apply today.\nTo make the most of your application experience, please limit yourself to two applications within a six-month period.\nEY accepts applications for this position on an on-going basis.\nFor those living in California, please click here for additional information.\nAt EY, our values set the foundation for how we work and the behaviors we expect of our people. Any misrepresentation or falsification of information or lack of integrity at any point in the recruiting process may result in withdrawal of your candidacy, revocation of an offer or immediate termination of employment.\nEY | Building a better working world\nEY is building a better working world by creating new value for clients, people, society and the planet, while building trust in capital markets.\nEnabled 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.\nEY teams work across a full spectrum of services in assurance, consulting, tax, strategy and transactions. 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