AI Developer - Manager - A&I - Financial Services - Consulting - NYC, Charlotte, Dallas

Location : New York, Charlotte, Dallas

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At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence.

We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go. Join EY and help to build a better working world.

At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence.

We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go.

Join EY and help to build a better working world.

Manager – Financial Services – Analytics & Insights

EY is the only professional services firm with a separate business unit (“FSO”) that is dedicated to the financial services marketplace. Our FSO teams have been at the forefront of every event that has reshaped and redefined the financial services industry. If you have a passion for rallying together to solve the most complex challenges in the financial services industry, come join our dynamic FSO team!

The business problems our clients are facing today are not the same problems they have faced in the past. The rapid pace of development in Artificial Intelligence and the technology that enables it has created an urgent need to innovate and adapt to the new global business paradigm. Financial institutions are looking to build smarter and more efficient ways to operate their business, create new revenue streams, and better manage risk, through new opportunities uncovered by their data. We believe that to fully unlock the potential of Artificial Intelligence, we need to look not only at its application, but also at the strategy level for how best to transform the enterprise into one that is technology and data focused and ready for the new age. Our clients’ problems are becoming increasingly complex while at the same time the need to automate and streamline is rising.

The opportunity

We provide constant room for growth through client engagements and personal development. Our practitioners develop and lead innovative data techniques and methods, supporting both business and technology leaders. This role provides the unique opportunity to build a professional network, tackle complex data issues, and drive cutting edge approaches across industry leading clients and domains. The experiences you gain here will be more valuable than anywhere else.

Your key responsibilities

You will be part of diverse teams of professionals across different geographies to deliver a wide range of data and analytics services. You will be solving complex issues and driving growth across financial services.

Skills and attributes for success

Fostering an innovative and inclusive team-oriented work environment

Leading and coaching diverse teams of professionals with different backgrounds

Providing subject matter expertise in defining technical and business approaches

Building strong relationships with the clients and cultivating business opportunities

Initiating and building thought leadership through white papers, point of views, and proof of concepts

Working in an entrepreneurial environment to pave your own career path

Propose and drive new technologies to enhance or replace existing business processes

To qualify for the role, you must have

Undergraduate or master’s degree in a quantitative field (e.g. engineering, computer science, business, economics, finance, statistics, and / or analytics)

Around 6 or more years of related work experience in banking, capital markets, insurance or asset management space

Superior communication (verbal and written) with the ability to effectively advocate technical solutions and results to technology and business audiences at all levels and disciplines within EY and client organizations

Experience working independently, efficiently and effectively under extreme time constraints and delivering results by critical deadlines

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Experience with client-facing activities such as requirements gathering, facilitating meetings, presentation creation, and ability to prepare client ready deliverables

Prior experience in project management and client serving roles

Excellent leadership and teaming skills

Strong organizational and time-management skills

Ability to integrate new knowledge and adapt to change with a natural curiosity and desire to learn

A willingness and ability to travel to meet client needs; travel is estimated at 60%

Valid passport

AI Specific

Ability to understand business challenges and translate them into value-add analytics and insights solutions.

Practical experience in leading and managing multi-disciplinary teams through a product life cycle – requirements, design, development, and testing.

Experience designing, building, and maintaining production-grade ML and DL models, machine learning workflows, and pipelines. Demonstrated exploration of new techniques outside of day-to-day job duties.

Proficiency in Generative AI techniques, including GANs (Generative Adversarial Networks), VAEs (Variational Autoencoders), and transformers. Experience with working open-source and commercial LLMs

Helping clients make data-driven decisions by working with structured and unstructured data sets, building out predictive models, and advising our clients on leading practices.

Building and applying data analysis algorithms (data mining, statistics, machine learning, natural language processing, RNNs, CNNs, etc.) as appropriate.

Designing, architecting, and developing solutions leveraging big data technology (Hadoop, Cassandra, Spark, Neo4j) to ingest, process, and analyze large, disparate data sets to exceed business requirements.

Leveraging in-house data platforms as needed and recommending and building new data platforms / solutions as required to exceed business requirements.

A thorough understanding of the Python programming language and associated machine learning libraries / packages (sklearn, TensorFlow, PyTorch, statsmodels, etc.).

Experience in multiple tools / language / frameworks within the Big Data & cloud ecosystem (Hadoop, MongoDB, Neo4j, Spark, Hive, HBase, Cassandra, etc.).

Demonstrated experience of managing and mentoring teams of data scientists, ML engineers, and data engineers on the execution of specific business use cases for AI / ML.

Strong machine learning and data structure design, development, application of advanced analytical and statistical methods, and architecture experience.

Ability to quantify improvement in business areas resulting from optimization techniques through the use of business analytics and / or statistical modeling.

Collaborate with our data scientists to map data fields to hypotheses and curate, wrangle, and prepare data for use in their advanced analytical models.

Additional Requirements :

Extensive experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for deploying and managing ML and AI solutions.

Strong deep learning experience, particularly in applications of Neural Network architectures to Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Machine Intelligence, and / or Reinforcement Learning.

Expertise in designing and deploying cloud-native architectures and solutions that leverage serverless computing, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and microservices.

Experience in integrating AI / ML solutions within cloud environments to ensure scalability, reliability, and security.

Familiarity with cloud-based machine learning services like AWS SageMaker, AWS Bedrock, Google AI Platform, Azure Machine Learning & Azure AI Studio

Knowledge of MLOps practices for continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI / CD) of machine learning models in a cloud environment.

Understanding of data security and privacy best practices in cloud environments, including compliance

Practical experience in developing and deploying Generative AI applications for various use cases such as text generation, image synthesis, and creative AI.

Strong ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Ideally, you’ll also have

Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA) or Science (MS) preferred

Prior consulting experience

What we offer you

At EY, we’ll develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world-class experiences. We’ll empower you in a flexible environment, and fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams. Learn more.

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

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EY | Building a better working world

EY is building a better working world by creating new value for clients, people, society and the planet, while building trust in capital markets.

Enabled by data, AI and advanced technology, EY teams help clients shape the future with confidence and develop answers for the most pressing issues of today and tomorrow.

EY teams work across a full spectrum of services in assurance, consulting, tax, strategy and transactions. Fueled by sector insights, a globally connected, multi-disciplinary network and diverse ecosystem partners, EY teams can provide services in more than 150 countries and territories.

What we offer you

At EY, we’ll develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world-class experiences. We’ll empower you in a flexible environment, and fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams. Learn more.

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 base salary range for this job in all geographic locations in the US is $125,500 to $230,200. The base salary range for New York City Metro Area, Washington State and California (excluding Sacramento) is $150,700 to $261,600. 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.

Join us in our team-led and leader-enabled hybrid model. Our expectation is for most people in external, client serving roles to work together in person 40-60% of the time over the course of an engagement, project or year.

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.

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

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EY | Building a better working world

EY is building a better working world by creating new value for clients, people, society and the planet, while building trust in capital markets.

Enabled by data, AI and advanced technology, EY teams help clients shape the future with confidence and develop answers for the most pressing issues of today and tomorrow.

EY teams work across a full spectrum of services in assurance, consulting, tax, strategy and transactions. Fueled by sector insights, a globally connected, multi-disciplinary network and diverse ecosystem partners, EY teams can provide services in more than 150 countries and territories.

EY provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, pregnancy, genetic information, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other legally protected basis, including arrest and conviction records, in accordance with applicable law.

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