Client Technology - Principal Software Engineering

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Leads the delivery of solution or infrastructure development services for a large or more complex project, using strong technical capabilities and outstanding hands-on experience.
• Takes accountability for the design, development, delivery and maintenance of solutions or infrastructure, driving compliance with and contributing to the development of relevant standards.
• Fully understands business and user requirements and ensures design specifications meet the requirements from a business and technical perspective.
• Solves complex and escalated aspects of a project, performing coding, debugging, testing and troubleshooting throughout the development process.
• Provides advanced technical expertise to maximize efficiency, reliability and value from current solutions, infrastructure and emerging technologies, showing technical leadership and identifying and implementing continuous improvement plans.
• Develops strong working relationships with peers across Development & Engineering and Architecture teams, collaborating to develop and engineer leading solutions.
• Provides a leadership role for the work group, ensuring the appropriate expectations, principles, structures, tools and responsibilities are in place to deliver the project.
• Drives consistency to the relevant processes, procedures, standards, technical design whilst supporting the definition, maintenance and implementation of technology standards.

Requirements

• Advanced technical proficiency in designing, developing, and debugging solutions.
• Advanced knowledge of one or more of: C#/Java or Python.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, IT, Mathematics, or related field preferred.
• More than 10 years applied experience.
• Significant relevant experience in either an internal or external software or platform engineering role, or similar.
• Technical knowledge and experience in delivering software / platform engineering solutions, providing comprehensive technical advice and handling user requirements.
• CI/CD delivery using code management, configuration management and automation tools such as GitHub, ADO.
• Proficiency in fine-tuning language models for specific tasks, including text generation, summarization, or question answering.
• Knowledge of embedding models and their application in NLP tasks like similarity matching, clustering, and information retrieval.
• Familiarity with designing and implementing agentic systems that combine AI models with external tools or environments for autonomous decision-making.
• Ability to design robust evaluation frameworks for AI models and agents, including metrics development, A/B testing, and performance benchmarking.

Nice to Have

• Microsoft/Google/AWS certificates.
• Delivery using modern methodologies.
• Significant proven experience in building applications using container-orchestration systems like Kubernetes, and container engines like Docker.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, IT, Mathematics, or related field (preferred).
• Microsoft/Google/AWS certificates (preferred).

Benefits & Perks

• EY will develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world-class experiences.
• Flexible environment and a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams.