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From strategy to execution, the Government & Public Sector (GPS) practice of Ernst & Young LLP provides a full range of consulting and audit services to help our Federal, State, Local and Education clients implement new ideas to help achieve their mission outcomes. We deliver real change and measurable results through our diverse, high-performing teams, quality work at the highest professional standards, operational know-how from across our global organization, and creative and bold ideas that drive innovation. We enable our government clients to achieve their mission of protecting the nation and serving the people; increasing public safety; improving healthcare for our military, veterans, and citizens; delivering essential public services; and helping those in need. EY is ready to help our government build a better working world.

The opportunity

This is a remote opportunity that can be performed within Continental United States.

We are looking for a Technical Architect within the US Government and Public Sector Technology Hub. In this role, you will be responsible for delivering solution designs and architectures for key initiatives hosted in primarily in a cloud hosted government platform, and considering re-use, scalability, and reliability in alignment with EY’s mission and strategy.

You will develop relationships across the business and EY Technology to understand requirements, apply technical knowledge of solution and technical architecture to solve business problems and work closely with other architecture and development teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions.

In this role you will create reliable solution plans that include cost estimates and optimized delivery approaches by working with the business, multi-disciplinary teams including our peers in Technical Solution Management and Product Costing.

As a Technical Architect, your key responsibilities are:

• Providing Technical guidance & support to client engagements focusing on complex & innovative products and reusable assets within the context of Azure/Azure Gov Platform services.

• Creating detailed Infrastructure and Engineering designs that account for the end-to-end technical solution of a system, in line with the business strategy and objectives and within the context of EY’s technology environment and Azure/Azure Gov Platform services.

• Ability to work across multiple projects with varied stakeholders. Setting architectural direction, you’ll build consensus, mediate conflicts providing technical leadership and advisory services to the business. Anticipating needs and potential objections and helping to create an environment which solicits positive contributions from all participants: Solution and Technical Architects, engineering teams, product manager, project managers, product analysts, test and project teams, Information Security and Operations

• Demonstrating excellent interpersonal communication and organizational skills that are required to operate as a leading member of global, distributed teams that deliver quality services and solutions

• Monitoring the progress and the quality of the project and reviews and develops due diligence to confirm the developed solution complies with architectural design ​

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, IT or relevant work experience

• 5–7+ year’s of working experience

• Thorough understanding of Azure (Gateways, Firewalls, Containers, ADO, etc.) architecture.

• 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.

• Experience in data movement and transformation technologies

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

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

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

• Highly skilled 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, etc.)

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

• Experience with Agile & DevSecOps methodologies

• Excellent technical, collaboration, interpersonal and communication skills

• 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

• Must be able to obtain and maintain Top Secret Security clearance.

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Experience with Microsoft Visio or similar design tools.

• Experience with PowerShell in order to manage and administer Azure resources and DevOps deployment pipelines.

• Experience with Azure Gov

• Knowledge of US Government & Public Sector federal standards, including DFARS, NIST 800-171, NIST 800-53, CMMC L3, Cloud Computing SRG, etc.

• Experience with mission critical technology components with DR capabilities.

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

• Cloud experience especially US Gov Cloud platforms, in particular Microsoft AzureGov .

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

• Knowledge of one or more programming and scripting languages such as JavaScript, , 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, etc.

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

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

• Achieved one or more of the typical Technical 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.

What we look for

We are looking for people are self-starters, who can take initiative and get things done. If you can think critically and creatively to solve problems, you will excel in this role.

What we offer

We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to the business. The salary range for this job in most geographic locations in the US is $86,800 to $157,500. The salary range for New York City Metro Area, Washington State and California (excluding Sacramento) is $104,200 to $179,000. Individual salaries within those ranges are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and geography. 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.

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

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