Cloud & data engineer - manager - consulting - location open

Location: Anywhere in Country

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At EY, our purpose is to shape the future. The insights and quality services we provide help build trust and confidence in the capital markets and economies all over the world. We develop outstanding leaders who are teamed to deliver our promises to all our stakeholders. In so doing, we play a critical role in building a better working world for our people, for our clients and for our communities.

The Opportunity

For a Data and Cloud Engineering-aligned Manager, the purpose is to turn data and AI capabilities into scalable, reliable and governable production solutions. This Data and Cloud Engineer Manager role spans the full platform and data asset lifecycle, from assessment and architecture through ingestion, transformation, governance, consumption, monitoring and support.

The client-serving Data and Cloud Engineering Manager explicitly owns workstream delivery, quality, client interactions, opportunity identification, budgets and engagement economics. A person successful in this role will demonstrate and support team leadership, technical-talent development and commercial acumen.

Key Responsibilities:

As a Cloud and Data Engineering Manager, you will play a crucial role in managing and delivering complex technical initiatives. Your time will be spent across various responsibilities, including:

• Lead one or more technical workstreams and assure delivery quality.
• Translate business and client requirements into architecture, pipelines, models, semantic layers or production platforms.
• Maintain daily client engagement, participate in working sessions and identify adjacent service opportunities.
• Manage resource plans, budgets and engagement economics.
• Own problems from raw source through data pipeline, model/analysis and production handoff.
• Automate, optimize and drive efficiency in processes, tools and communication across cross-functional teams (e.g. spanning data engineering, software engineering, AI/ML, architecture, cloud and governance).
• Remain hands-on: tested, version-controlled, observable code rather than one-off analytical notebooks.
• Work closely with development teams and participate in planning sessions to achieve high level of availability, reliability and performance of their service and platform requirements.
• Design, provision, and run the underlying cloud and container platform that application teams rely on in production.
• Build scalable pipelines and streaming architectures using Python/SQL and cloud platforms (Azure predominantly, AWS and GCP also key platforms).
• Understand and apply data architecture, modelling, integration, quality, security, ontologies and semantic layers.
• Understand and apply quality assurance and testing practices.
• Understand and apply cloud and distributed-system architecture and the path to production using Kubernetes, GPU infrastructure, multi-tenancy, infrastructure-as-code, GitOps, resilience and hybrid/multi-environment portability.
• Incorporate GenAI/LLM capabilities where relevant.
• Demonstrate proficiency in Agile delivery and development methodologies.
• Embed governance, observability, controls and operational support—not stop at model development or analysis.

Skills and attributes for success:

The goal is to support our clients to transform their business through technology. You will work with customers’ technical leads, client executives, and partners to manage and deliver high quality systems with a focus on reliability and excellent customer experience, becoming a trusted advisor to decision makers throughout the engagement. As a Manager, you will lead the effective management and delivery of processes, solutions, and projects, ensuring a strong focus on quality and risk management. This role presents exciting challenges and opportunities for growth, allowing you to apply your expertise in guiding others and recommending quality solutions. You will engage regularly with external clients, actively participating in working sessions and leading workstreams from planning through execution and closure.

To qualify for the role, you must have:

• A bachelor’s degree required (4-year degree).
• Typically, no less than 4 - 6 years of relevant experience.
• Proven record operating High Availability services on Azure (4+ years).
• Expert understanding of core Azure services such as but not limited to: Azure Functions, Azure Container Apps (or Azure App Service), Azure SQL Database, Azure Blob Storage, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Monitor (Log Analytics & Application Insights), and Azure Managed Prometheus.
• Experience designing, deploying and managing container orchestration platforms using Kubernetes.
• Experience implementing SRE standards for Resiliency and Scalability of microservice architectures in Kubernetes.
• Experience with infrastructure automation using Terraform.
• Experience implementing SLIs, SLOs and Error Budgets as part of development/delivery practices.
• Experience monitoring container based microservices & Cloud Platform services.
• Use of CI/CD tools - preferably GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps.
• Knowing agile methodology and being able to work by its principles.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Self-starter and strong, quick problem-solving skills.

Ideally, you’ll also have:

• A passion for delivering commercial software products and platforms to market.
• Be deeply technical and constantly in a state of learning.
• Able to communicate clearly and efficiently with a variety of audiences including developers, clients, customers, partners and executives.
• Fearless in getting “hands-on” with technology and execution.
• Strong understanding of modern software engineering processes.
• Deep understanding and interest in cloud and distributed systems architectures.
• Comfortable with ambiguity with a drive for clarity.
• Experience leading and growing technical talent.
• Experience in leading teams and managing change effectively.
• Strong negotiation and influencing skills.
• A proven track record of building and managing client relationships.
• Strong negotiation and influencing skills.
• Experience in managing change effectively.
• A track record of leading teams successfully.

What we look for:

At EY, our purpose is to shape the future. The insights and quality services we provide help build trust and confidence in the capital markets and economies all over the world. We develop outstanding leaders who are teamed to deliver our promises to all our stakeholders. In so doing, we play a critical role in building a better working world for our people, for our clients and for our communities.

What we offer you

At EY, we harness our collective strength to empower you to shape your future with confidence through professional growth, personal fulfillment and an inclusive culture. Learn more at ey.com/us/careers.

The salary range for this job is:

• New York City, Boston, and Washington DC Metro Areas, Washington State, and Southern California offices – $150,700 to $251,200.
• Bay Area California offices – $157,100 to $261,600.
• All other offices locations in the US, including Sacramento – $125,500 to $230,200.

Individual salaries within these 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.

Are you ready to shape your future with confidence? Apply today.

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