EY Solution Architect - Technology Consulting 

United States, New York, New York 

655140200

You’ll get to work on cutting edge disruptive technologies and assist with building and implementing new technology solutions and products to address challenges faced by the banking industry.

Our Financial Risk Technology practice helps clients manage credit, market and liquidity risk across regions and regulatory regimes. We provide full lifecycle services to enable the implementation of best practice risk management processes and systems. We help clients respond to emerging risk and regulatory developments through implementation of agile methodologies.

The Financial Risk Technology practice focus areas include:

• Credit risk technology solutions - Technology solutions to complex credit risk, capital issues and regulatory mandates including but not limited to credit origination and approval, portfolio management, rating systems, Basel, CCAR Banking Book, IFRS 9, CECL, and SCCL.

• Treasury risk technology solutions - Establishing a strategic treasury risk architecture and framework that supports changing regulatory requirements enables the implementation of Liquidity Risk (including Intra-day), Funds Transfer Pricing, and Collateral Management solutions.

• Trading and market risk technology solutions - Streamlining trading technology environments and implementing flexible and reliable risk platforms including front office based market risk and VAR platform strategy, stress testing analytics, PnL decomposition and regulatory mandates including but not limited to FRTB and CCAR Trading Book.

Your key responsibilities

You’ll foster relationships with client personnel at senior levels and lead integrated campaigns generating demand and revenue for EY Services. You’ll cultivate and manage business development opportunities and maintain long term client relationships and supporting the development of future technology offerings to drive sales.

• Lead relationship building and business development conversations with senior/C-level client stakeholders
• Lead business opportunity identification and business development pursuit processes internally and with potential clients
• Serve as a thought leader on risk management/compliance program and technology topics
• Develop approaches and business cases to implement change in our clients’ environments
• Serve as engagement leader to include:
  • Guiding engagement teams, work product creation and overall quality
  • Leading discussions with client stakeholders
  • Assessing risk/compliance programs and technology
  • Gathering business requirements and translating them into IT system functional requirements, designs, user journeys, and solution visions.
  • Developing strategic architecture and system change and configuration options.
  • Implementing, testing, and assisting to deploy changes to third party and custom development systems.
  • Conducting data analytics work such as performing data analysis and modeling on client data.
  • Lead discussions with senior/C-level client stakeholders to present value delivered in engagements and gain buy-in.
• Lead a diverse range of internal practice development initiatives.

Skills and attributes for success

• Your financial and risk background will enable you to build and deliver practical, executable plans that enable client success
• Drive high-quality work products within expected timeframes and on budget.
• Constantly developing your understanding of current market trends and processes and sharing your knowledge to develop junior colleagues
• Understanding our clients’ unique ambitions and needs and referring them to colleagues in other teams and areas to broaden our business relationships where possibleStrong knowledge of and experience in executing controls related assessments across multiple risk and regulatory domains throughout the technology architecture
• Demonstrated experience in end-to-end and UAT testing of business processes, technology, and data infrastructures

To qualify for the role you must have

• A Bachelor's degree (computer science, engineering, or related field) and approximately 8 years of related work experience in a Technology role in a financial services company OR
• A Master’s degree (computer science, engineering, or related field) and approximately 6 years of related work experience in a financial services company
• Demonstrated ability to manage, supervise and build a team of technology advisors through requirements definition, controls implementation, and testing
• Deep understanding of regulatory reporting requirements and experience in designing solutions to meet them.
• Lead and manage a team of skilled software engineers and technology architects to deliver end-to-end solutions for Advisory clients, focusing on C++, Java, Python, other full-stack development over cloud platforms.
• Ability to innovate and adapt to a rapidly changing client landscape and develop/enhance EY services to meet new demands
• Experience working with cloud-based technologies such as IaaS (AWS, GCP), DBaaS(DynamoDB, Cosmos DB), CaaS (Azure Kubernetes service, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes service) and familiarity with OpenAI technologies such as advance machine learning models like GPT and DALL-E.
• Experience developing strategic relationships, identifying sales opportunities, and pursuing opportunities through the full sales lifecycle
• Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, managing multiple projects and priorities simultaneously.
• Provide strategic leadership in technology design and architecture for regulatory reporting initiatives

Technical Skillset

• Enterprise IT implementation experience leveraging Agile methodologies
• Hands-on experience in one or more phases of the software development life cycle (SDLC), including requirements definition, architecture design, configuration, and testing
• Working knowledge of Data structures and Algorithms as well as hands-on experience with OOP Programming languages (Java preferable)
• Databases experience in MongoDB, DynamoDB
• Multi-threading in Java (with frameworks such as Akka)
• Big data technologies like Hadoop and PySpark
• Distributed computing experience over a large compute grid
• Queuing Technologies such as Apache Kafka or Crank up the AMPS etc.
• Working knowledge of C++
• Familiarity with networking protocols and ability to debug network performance issues
• Familiarity with various caching technologies such as Crank up the AMPS, Redis etc.
• Front end experience with React, Javascript
• Cloud experience with AWS, Azure or GCP

Architecture Skillset :

• Knowledge of design patterns, best practices and frameworks such as MVC, Microservices, Event-driven and Layered architecture
• Proficiency in using CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Gitlab, CircleCI
• Knowledge of container technologies like Docker and orchestration with Kubernetes
• Skills in API design and management
• Experience with middleware platforms
• Skills in optimizing applicatiions and infrastructure for scalability and performance, including load testing and tuning

What we look for

What We Offer

We offer a competitive compensation package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to our business. 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. Under 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. Plus, we offer:

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

Apply now.

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.