Senior Consultant - Forward deployed Engineer | Finance, Data en Agentic AI

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.   Confidence in your impact today. Freedom to build tomorrow. At EY, you can be sure that you’re making a difference – for your client, for society, for your colleagues and for your own development. At the same time, you’ll have the freedom to work in a way that fits your life. Whether you choose to specialize, broaden your expertise or grow into leadership, you’re in the driver’s seat. Together with ambitious colleagues in an open and trusted culture, you aim for the best every day. Big on opportunity, friendly in collaboration. EY provides the resources you need to shape your career and make an impact in your field.   Your new job | About your main responsibilities If you have a strong engineering background and want to work directly with clients at the intersection of Finance, Data and Agentic AI, this role is a perfect fit. EY’s Finance Consulting practice is looking for a Senior Consultant: Forward Deployed Engineer. As organizations move toward more intelligent and autonomous ways of working, disconnected systems, fragmented data and limited engineering capacity can prevent them from turning ideas into reliable solutions. Strong data foundations, well-designed integrations and disciplined software delivery are essential for making analytics and AI part of everyday business operations.   In this hands-on role, you will work directly with client teams to understand their operations, connect enterprise systems and data, and build solutions that support business decisions and approved workflows. The CFO organization is our initial anchor, covering planning, performance management, financial control, reporting and Treasury, with opportunities extending into Risk and wider business functions. You will take defined problems from discovery through architecture, development, testing, production deployment and operational adoption. Your remit covers both the foundations that make AI reliable and the applications and agents that put those foundations to work.   What you will do   Understand the business and define the solution

Work directly with business users, domain experts and technology teams to understand processes, decisions, controls and operational challenges. Investigate existing systems and data to establish what is happening and where intervention will create value. Translate business needs into solution designs, data requirements, acceptance criteria and measurable outcomes. Use short development cycles and user feedback to validate assumptions and improve the solution.

Build and connect enterprise data platforms

Develop source-system connections, ingestion pipelines, transformations and governed data models. Build Lakehouse and analytical solutions using Microsoft Fabric, or comparable platforms such as Databricks and Snowflake. Implement reconciliations, data-quality checks and traceability from business outputs back to source records. Contribute to enterprise system implementations, integration design, data migration and validation.

Deliver analytics, applications and agentic workflows

Build reporting products, analytical tools and applications that support business decisions and operations. Develop agents that use governed data, APIs and enterprise tools to investigate issues, support analysis and execute approved workflows. Integrate solutions with existing ERP, accounting, planning and operational systems. Define agent permissions, evaluation criteria, exception handling and human approval points alongside domain and control owners.

Use AI throughout the engineering lifecycle

Apply tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot and comparable coding agents to development, documentation, test generation and