GDS Consulting_Digital Engineering_Cloud Infrastracture Architect

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.

Career Family Cloud Engineering

Role Type Senior Manager – Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Role Rank 21

The opportunity

We are the only professional services organization who has a separate business dedicated exclusively to the financial services marketplace. Join Digital & Emerging Technologies Team and you will work with multi-disciplinary teams from around the world to deliver a global perspective. Aligned to key industry groups including Asset management, Banking and Capital Markets, Insurance and Private Equity, Health, Government, Power and Utilities, we provide integrated advisory, assurance, tax, and transaction services. Through diverse experiences, world-class learning and individually tailored coaching you will experience ongoing professional development. That’s how we develop outstanding leaders who team to deliver on our promises to all our stakeholders, and in so doing, play a critical role in building a better working world for our people, for our clients and for our communities. Sound interesting? Well, this is just the beginning. Because whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime.

As an Infrastructure Architect within our Technology Consulting team, you will play a key role in bridging the gap between business needs and technical solutions. You’ll work closely with stakeholders to gather, analyze, and translate requirements into clear and actionable documentation that supports solution design, development, and delivery.

EY Digital & Emerging Technologies is a unique, industry-focused business unit that provides a broad range of integrated services that leverage deep industry experience with strong functional capability and product knowledge. The Digital & Emerging Technologies (DET) practice works with clients to analyse, formulate, design, mobilize and drive digital transformation initiatives. We advise clients on their most pressing digital challenges and opportunities surround business strategy, customer, growth, profit optimization, innovation, technology strategy, and digital transformation. We also have a unique ability to help our clients translate strategy into actionable technical design, and transformation planning/mobilization. Through our unique combination of competencies and solutions, EY’s DET team helps our clients sustain competitive advantage and profitability by developing strategies to stay ahead of the rapid pace of change and disruption and supporting the execution of complex transformations.

Your Key Responsibilities

► Requirements Gathering: Conduct interviews, workshops, and stakeholder sessions to elicit business and technical requirements.

► Documentation & Analysis: Translate stakeholder needs into clear specifications, functional documentation, and create architecture design that guide solution development.

► Development & Technical Skills: Ability to develop and execute code associated to technology infrastructure using latest tools and platforms. Ability to establish hyper-scaler platforms from scratch, understanding the fundamental design principles to build best-practice and sustainable cloud infrastructure solutions

► Validation & Testing: Develop test and validation frameworks to assess technical solutions against business requirements, ensuring alignment and quality.

► Risk & Impact Assessment: Analyze potential risks and impacts of proposed solutions, contributing to informed decision-making and project planning.

► Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with cross-functional teams including architects, developers, and business leads to ensure shared understanding and delivery of requirements.

► Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to improve business processes and system functionality through data-driven insights and feedback loops.

Skills And Attributes For Success

► Proven experience in business analysis within technical environments, including system integration, infrastructure, cloud platforms or application development projects.

► Proficiency in producing clear and comprehensive documentation, including business requirements, architecture diagrams/views, functional specifications, and process flows.

► Hands-on experience in deploying cloud infrastructure and establishing cloud infrastructure platforms, ability to work in Terraform.

► Understanding of IT network topologies and its associated implications on establishing Hyperscaler platforms

► Ability to design cloud infrastructure solutions which includes associated services like networking, private endpoints, function apps, storage (blob), messaging (service bus / event grid), data stores (e.g. cosmos / SQL / postgres).

► Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to assess complex systems and identify gaps or improvement opportunities.

► Understanding of core on-prem infrastructure platforms and services (AD, Hypervisor platforms, Application environment services, Azure & AWS PaaS and SaaS offerings etc..)

► Hands-on experience with Infrastructure migration with understanding of containerisation and integration designs

► Able to produce solution and product design documentation.

Ideally, you’ll have the skills and attributes below but don’t worry if you don’t tick all the boxes. We’re interested in your aptitude, attitude and willingness to learn.

► A Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

► Experience in enterprise transformation, system migrations, or regulatory environments.

► A proactive mindset and a passion for enabling technology-driven business outcomes.

What We Offer

EY Global Delivery Services (GDS) is a dynamic and truly global delivery network. We work across six locations – Argentina, China, India, the Philippines, Poland and the UK – and with teams from all EY service lines, geographies and sectors, playing a vital role in the delivery of the EY growth strategy. From accountants to coders to advisory consultants, we offer a wide variety of fulfilling career opportunities that span all business disciplines. In GDS, you will collaborate with EY teams on exciting projects and work with well-known brands from across the globe. We’ll introduce you to an ever-expanding ecosystem of people, learning, skills and insights that will stay with you throughout your career.

► 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.

About EY

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EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets.

Enabled by data and technology, diverse EY teams in over 150 countries provide trust through assurance and help clients grow, transform and operate.

Working across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today.

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

The Exceptional EY Experience. It’s Yours To Build.

EY | Building a better working world

EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets.

Enabled by data and technology, diverse EY teams in over 150 countries provide trust through assurance and help clients grow, transform and operate.

Working across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today.