{"id":3993290,"url":"https://alion.io/job/ey-financial-services-forward-deployed-engineer-technology-consulting-engineering-senior-manager","title":"Financial Services - Forward Deployed Engineer - Technology Consulting - Engineering- Senior Manager","company":{"id":2859,"name":"EY","domain":"ey.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/ey-com","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"SuccessFactors","truth_index":null},"role":"Solutions","role_family":"Solutions","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Chicago, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":181800,"max":377400,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":377400},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":12,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"Amazon ECS","optional":false},{"name":"Apache Kafka","optional":false},{"name":"Arize Phoenix","optional":false},{"name":"AutoGen","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"AWS Bedrock","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Claude Code","optional":false},{"name":"Copilot","optional":false},{"name":"CrewAI","optional":false},{"name":"DeepEval","optional":false},{"name":"Docker","optional":false},{"name":"DSPy","optional":false},{"name":"Embeddings","optional":false},{"name":"Function Calling","optional":false},{"name":"Google ADK","optional":false},{"name":"Java","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"LangChain","optional":false},{"name":"LangGraph","optional":false},{"name":"LlamaIndex","optional":false},{"name":"LLM","optional":false},{"name":"OpenAI","optional":false},{"name":"OpenAI Codex","optional":false},{"name":"pgvector","optional":false},{"name":"Pinecone","optional":false},{"name":"Platform Engineering","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"RAG","optional":false},{"name":"Semantic Kernel","optional":false},{"name":"Structured Outputs","optional":false},{"name":"TypeScript","optional":false},{"name":"Vertex AI","optional":false},{"name":"Weaviate","optional":false},{"name":"PostgreSQL","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-10T00:16:07Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-09","last_verified_at":"2026-11-11T17:15:15Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":1,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":1},"description":"Location: New York, Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Grandview Heights, Hoboken, and Philadelphia\nAt EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence.\nWe’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go. Join EY and help to build a better working world.\nRole Summary\nWe are seeking a Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) Transformation Lead to help clients solve complex business challenges through technology. This leader will operate at the intersection of strategy, engineering, and consulting, working directly with business and technology executives to shape transformation agendas, build scalable solutions, and deliver measurable business outcomes.\nThe ideal candidate combines deep technology expertise with strong business acumen. They can translate strategic priorities into executable roadmaps, lead multidisciplinary teams through delivery, and identify opportunities to expand client value and grow the business.\nKey Responsibilities\nLead business and technology transformation initiatives from strategy through execution and value realization.\nPartner with executive stakeholders to define business priorities, transformation roadmaps, and investment strategies.\nShape and oversee solution architecture across cloud, data, AI, digital, and platform engineering domains.\nAlign business objectives, operating models, and technology solutions to drive measurable outcomes.\nLead cross-functional teams spanning product, engineering, architecture, and business stakeholders.\nEstablish governance, delivery frameworks, success metrics, and outcome tracking.\nBuild trusted relationships with senior client executives and become a strategic advisor on technology-led transformation.\nIdentify new opportunities, shape follow-on engagements, and contribute to account growth and market development.\nMentor managers, architects, and engineers while building high-performing teams.\nForward Deployed Engineering Requirements\nProven experience leading large, client-facing technology programs and working directly with executive, business, and technology stakeholders in ambiguous environments.\nDemonstrated ability to connect business strategy to architecture, engineering execution, operating-model change, user adoption, and measurable outcomes.\nExperience leading multiple workstreams and multidisciplinary teams, managing dependencies, and coordinating delivery across client and consulting organizations.\nStrong technical foundation in enterprise architecture, modern software engineering, cloud platforms, data ecosystems, AI/GenAI, and enterprise integration.\nExperience guiding the design and delivery of production AI/ML or generative AI solutions, with attention to evaluation, security, reliability, operational readiness, and business value.\nWorking knowledge of AI application frameworks such as Google ADK, LangChain, or LangGraph, with the judgment to guide framework and architecture choices for a use case and client environment.\nExperience overseeing API, data-service, event-driven, and asynchronous integration patterns; familiarity with Apache Kafka or comparable messaging platforms.\nAbility to review engineering implementation in Python, Java, TypeScript, or comparable languages, including source control, code review, automated testing, and CI/CD practices.\nExperience guiding deployments and issue resolution in client cloud, on-premises, or hybrid environments, including security, integration, data readiness, and operational constraints.\nStrong executive communication, workshop facilitation, influencing, negotiation, and client relationship skills.\nTrack record of contributing to account growth through opportunity identification, solution shaping, proposal development, or pursuit leadership.\nExperience developing managers and technical leaders and building teams that can deliver across multiple workstreams.\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.\nRecommended experience profile: 12+ years in technology, engineering, architecture, or consulting roles, including 5+ years leading teams, programs, or client delivery. Equivalent combinations of experience may be considered.\nAI and Engineering Skills\nGenAI and AI Transformation\nAbility to identify where AI and intelligent automation can address business needs; define value hypotheses, feasibility criteria, and appropriate human oversight.\nExperience shaping production LLM solutions and their end-to-end lifecycle, from data and knowledge sources through model output delivery (for example, Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, or Google Vertex AI).\nUnderstanding of retrieval-augmented systems, including source integration, chunking, embeddings, retrieval, grounding, and quality trade-offs (for example, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Azure AI Search, pgvector, Pinecone, or Weaviate).\nUnderstanding of prompt design, structured outputs, and systematic evaluation and iteration (for example, DSPy or PromptFlow).\nAbility to assess agentic patterns, tool use, orchestration, memory, workflow boundaries, and the conditions where simpler deterministic approaches are appropriate.\nAgentic Systems, Quality, and Operations\nExperience guiding agentic systems and multi-step workflows, including orchestration, tool integration, state management, retries, fallbacks, and failure handling (for example, LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, Semantic Kernel, or comparable frameworks).\nAbility to establish evaluation approaches covering functional correctness, output quality, safety, and business-defined measures (for example, RAGAS, DeepEval, or Arize Phoenix).\nUnderstanding of production support for AI systems, including tracing, observability, degradation detection, behavioral drift, incident response, and human escalation.\nAbility to guide model and platform choices based on latency, throughput, scalability, security, and cost.\nSoftware, Cloud, and Integration Engineering\nStrong working knowledge of software architecture and engineering practices for secure, modular, testable, maintainable systems.\nAbility to review designs involving APIs, service boundaries, event-driven patterns, data flows, and enterprise integrations.\nFamiliarity with containerization and cloud deployment patterns (for example, Docker, Kubernetes, Azure Container Apps, or AWS ECS).\nExperience guiding teams that prepare and use structured and unstructured data for AI workloads, including data quality, readiness, and validation.\nFamiliarity with AI-assisted engineering tools such as Claude Code, Codex, or GitHub Copilot, including the controls needed for responsible use.\nLeadership and Additional Attributes for Success\nTakes accountability for client outcomes, program delivery, technical quality, and team effectiveness.\nBuilds executive trust and explains technology choices, risks, and trade-offs in business terms.\nSets direction in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and gives teams clarity on priorities and decisions.\nBalances strategic leadership with practical engineering judgment and remains engaged in critical implementation decisions.\nLeads through influence across business, product, architecture, engineering, data, risk, legal, compliance, and audit stakeholders.\nCoaches and develops leaders, creates opportunities for delegation, and builds teams that can scale delivery.\nApplies sound judgment in regulated environments, including awareness of security, privacy, responsible AI, human oversight, and operational controls.\nDemonstrates commercial judgment and contributes to sustainable client relationships and account growth.\nRequired Qualifications:\nProven experience leading large-scale business and technology transformation programs.\nStrong understanding of enterprise architecture, cloud platforms, data ecosystems, AI/GenAI, and modern engineering practices.\nDemonstrated ability to deliver measurable business outcomes through technology investments.\nExperience leading complex programs involving multiple stakeholders, teams, and workstreams.\nStrong executive communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills.\nTrack record of developing trusted client relationships and expanding account opportunities.\nCommercial mindset with experience identifying, shaping, and growing new business opportunities.\nWhat Success Looks Like\nA successful Forward Deployed Engineer is equally comfortable in a business stakeholder workshop, a solution design workshop, or an engineering review. They turn business challenges into scalable solutions, deliver tangible outcomes, and create opportunities for continued growth.\nClients achieve measurable business outcomes through technology-enabled transformation.\nComplex business challenges are translated into scalable, sustainable solutions.\nTrusted executive relationships are established across client organizations.\nNew opportunities are identified and converted into expanded client value and business growth.\nTeams are developed, coached, and positioned to operate with increasing scale and impact.\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.\nThe salary range for this job is:New York City, Boston, and Washington DC Metro Areas, Washington State, and Southern California offices - $181,800 to $377,400\nBay Area California offices - $189,400 to $393,200\nAll other offices locations in the US, including Sacramento - $151,500 to $346,000\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.\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. Fueled by sector insights, a globally connected, multi-disciplinary network and diverse ecosystem partners, EY teams can provide services in more than 150 countries and territories.\nAll in to shape the future with confidence.\nEY provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, genetic information, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other legally protected basis, including arrest and conviction records, in accordance with applicable law.\nEY is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities including veterans with disabilities. 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