EY GDS - Solution Architect

Solution Architect

Job description :

- At EY, you'll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And we're counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.

- Fueled by strategic investment in technology and innovation, Client Technology seeks to drive growth opportunities and solve complex business problems for our clients through building a robust platform for business and powerful product engine that are integral to innovation at scale.

- You will work with technologists and business specialists, blending EY's deep industry knowledge and innovative ideas with our platforms, capabilities, and technical expertise.

- As a champion for change and growth, you will be at the forefront of integrating emerging technologies from AI to Data Analytics into every corner of what we do at EY. That means more growth for you, exciting learning opportunities, career choices, and the chance to make a real impact.

Skills and attributes for success :

To qualify for the role you must have :

- Advanced understanding of solution architecture.

- Ability to adopt and relate new technologies to the set of problems we face at EY while adhering to security and other EY standards

- Ability to communicate solutions, ideas, suggestions to business partners effectively and comprehensibly

- Understanding of business and organizational strategy

- Deep understanding of Application, Infrastructure and security architecture and non-functional aspects like Performance, Scalability, Reliability, Availability, other "capabilities" of a system

- Good understanding of the latest cloud computing and data technologies, business drivers, emerging computing trends, and deployment options.

- Expert-level skills in defining, designing and developing distributed and scalable products and services, including reusable domain-specific microservices on multi-platform /hybrid clouds (such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Rackspace, VMware, or OpenStack)

- Ability to navigate the EY organization to facilitate work beyond the immediate technical team

- Experience with Agile & DevSecOps methodologies;

- Excellent project management, collaboration, interpersonal and communication skills

- A broad understanding of EY Technology, including service offerings, technical standards and policies, technical and business strategies as well as organizational structure

- Strong collaboration abilities - willingness to share ideas, documentation and leading practices

- Conceptual and analytical skills - ability to extract, analyze, and document complex business and technical requirements/strategies

Ideally, you'll also have :

- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in Engineering, Computer Science, IT, Mathematics, Economics

- 10+ years overall IT industry experience

- 3+ years in a solution or technical architect role using service and hosting solutions such as private/public cloud IaaS, PaaS and SaaS platforms

- Experience in architecting and designing technical solutions for Microsoft-centric solutions based on industry standards using (Azure) IaaS, PaaS and SaaS capabilities.

- Experience with any claims-based authentication (SAML/OAuth/OIDC), MFA, JIT, and/or RBAC / Ping etc.

- Knowledge of cloud security controls including tenant isolation, encryption at rest, encryption in transit, key management, vulnerability assessments, application firewalls, SIEM, etc.

- Managed the end-to-end lifecycles of a project in solution architect capacity

- Experience with mission critical technology components with DR capabilities

- Experience with multi-geography, multi-tier service design and management

- Comprehensive experience in financial management, solution plan development and product cost estimation

- Solid business understanding, management and marketing communication skills

- Significant experience in presenting ideas, products, concept papers to varied audiences

- Experience coaching and mentoring others

- Ability to deal efficiently with a variety of individuals and groups in a constructive and collaborative manner to resolve problems and achieve business goals

- Experience supporting peer teams and their responsibilities; such as infrastructure, operations, engineering, info-security

- Experience with configuration management and automation tools like Azure DevOps, Ansible, Puppet, Octopus, Chef, Salt, etc.

- Experience with Software development full lifecycle methodologies, patterns, frameworks, libraries and tools

- Knowledge of more than one programming and scripting languages such as JavaScript, PowerShell, Bash, SQL, .NET, Java, Python, PHP, Ruby, PERL, C++, etc.

- Experience with relational, graph and/or unstructured data technologies such as SQL Server, Azure SQL, Cosmos, Azure Data Lake, HD Insights, Hadoop, Neo4j etc.

- Experience in data movement and transformation technologies

- Working knowledge of visualization tools like Power BI or Tableau and understanding of analytics tools including Azure Stream Analytics, SQL Analytics, Data Lake Analytics.

- Experience with AI and Machine Learning tools such as Azure ML etc.

- Delivered projects or initiatives using common methodologies especially SAFe Agile but also Waterfall, Iterative etc.

- Extensive experience in project and/or product management

- Experience putting together architecture for mobile applications that are either independent applications or supplementary addons (to intranet or extranet)

- Achieved one or more of the typical Solution Architecture certifications e.g. Microsoft, MS Azure Certification, TOGAF, AWS Cloud Certified, Pivotal, CISSIP, Zachman, ITIL, Cisco, (ISC)2, CEH, SAFe, PMI, and SAP etc.