DE-Legacy Modernization-Gen AI Developer-UC-GDSF02

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Career Family Legacy Modernization - Gen AI Developer

Role Type Full Time

Senior The Opportunity We are the only professional services organization who has a separate business dedicated exclusively to the financial services marketplace. Join Digital Engineering 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 of 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.

We are seeking a Gen AI-based Legacy Modernization Engineer at EY GDS. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing and implementing AI accelerators to support EY’s efforts in migrating client workloads off their legacy systems. This role involves working across various platforms and cloud service providers, with a primary focus on Azure Open AI and associated LLM services. Collaboration with development teams will be essential to build, deploy, and manage applications that align with business objectives and enhance Legacy Modernization offerings. This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a leading firm whilst being instrumental in the growth of a new service offering. We are the only professional services organization who has a separate business dedicated exclusively to the financial and non-financial services marketplace. Join Digital Engineering team and you will work with multi-disciplinary teams from around the world to deliver a global perspective.

EY Digital Engineering 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 Engineering (DE) 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 DE 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

• Application Development

• Work on R&D initiatives to enhance model performance, efficiency, and alignment with organisational objectives.
• Manage the technical roadmap, sprint schedules, work with other engineers, providing guidance on best practices.

• Oversee the design and development of AI applications and accelerators.

• Architecture Design

• Assess emerging GenAI and Agentic tools and conduct proofs-of-concept.

• Optimise generative models for latency, cost, and scalability.

• Security

• Implement safeguards to address risks such as bias, misinformation, and harmful outputs, including information security measures.

• Ensure adherence to data privacy regulations (GDPR, CCPA) and ethical AI standards.

• People Management

• Consistently meet commitments in a deadline-driven environment with multiple priorities.
• Capable of coordinating processes across integrated systems to optimize operational efficiency.

• Provide mentorship on generative AI best practices.

• Troubleshooting: Diagnose and resolve issues related to application perform…