Hands-on architecture leadership for EY Fabric, EY’s global technology platform

This is an architecture role for someone who combines strategic judgement with practical engineering delivery. The successful applicant will shape direction and define robust designs, while staying close to implementation through prototyping, code and design reviews, technical problem-solving and direct collaboration with engineering teams.

The opportunity and EY Fabric

EY Fabric is EY’s global foundational technology platform for building, running and scaling technology solutions. It brings together reusable cloud, data, intelligence, developer and business-enablement capabilities, supported by self-service workflows and built-in governance, so teams can deliver secure products faster and more consistently.

In this role, you will be part of the Client Technology Architecture function and will work within a team leading key aspects of the architecture of EY Fabric, part of the wider Fabric engineering function. You will work across business, product, architecture, security, platform and engineering teams to translate outcomes into pragmatic technical direction and successful delivery.

The role spans the full delivery lifecycle. You will help shape product vision and roadmaps, develop architecture options and detailed designs, support planning and investment decisions, and remain actively engaged hands-on as solutions are built, tested, operated and improved. You will be expected to move comfortably between senior stakeholder conversations and detailed technical work with engineers, doing hands-on coding and engineering where needed to progress work through to production.

Key responsibilities

• Partner with Product Managers and other stakeholders to understand business needs, clarify requirements and translate them into pragmatic product and platform architecture.
• Lead aspects of the EY Fabric architecture, owning or guiding the technology and design direction for assigned platform capabilities from early concept and option analysis through delivery, adoption, operation and evolution.
• Ensure designs work coherently across EY Fabric, including its platform APIs, developer workflows, portal and user experience, reusable cloud capabilities, identity and access patterns, data services, observability and integration points.
• Produce clear architecture blueprints, designs, architectural decision records, reference patterns and implementation guidance, using your judgement as to what is required.
• Design secure, scalable and reusable services, APIs, integration patterns, datastores, user-facing capabilities and common platform components.
• Work directly with engineering teams to turn architecture into working software, including hands-on prototyping, proof-of-concept development, code review, pair design, troubleshooting and design assurance.