Business Solution Architect - EY GDS

About the role

The Business Solution Architect works within the Enterprise Technology CBS Solutions Delivery Team and shapes the future of the digital, data and marketing technology ecosystem. The role partners closely with Product Managers in Technology Enablement and with cross-functional business teams such as Clients & Industries, Talent, Alumni and Communications, and aligns with Data Architecture teams to build a data-driven, AI-enabled future.

Key responsibilities

• Define and maintain the MarTech architecture strategy and vision, and set architectural standards, reusable patterns and reference architectures.
• Shape multi-year roadmaps with Product Managers and business leaders, and turn business needs into capability models and architectures.
• Act as the architectural connector across business functions, ensuring interoperability and shared experience frameworks while reducing duplication and promoting reuse of platforms and standards.
• Produce solution options with pros and cons, costs, risks, technical debt and compliance considerations (information security, governance, data).
• Collaborate with Data Architecture teams on AI-ready data models, taxonomies and metadata, and ensure integration with data lakes, CDPs, analytics platforms and identity systems.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and platform/vendor options, influence investment decisions and business cases, and support design assurance and governance forums.
• Promote API-first, event-driven, modular and composable architecture, and champion performance, resilience, observability, accessibility and global scalability.
• Communicate complex architectural concepts clearly to business stakeholders and act as a trusted advisor on MarTech strategy.

Required profile

• Deep knowledge of MarTech ecosystems: CRM, CDP, CMS, automation, analytics, identity and consent.
• Strong architectural modelling across business, data, application and technology layers.
• Experience designing integrations across multiple enterprise platforms.
• Excellent communication, leadership, facilitation and stakeholder management skills.
• Exposure to Data Architecture or AI/ML platform design.

Required skills

• Experience with Adobe Experience Cloud, Salesforce, CDPs, DAM or similar ecosystems.
• Architecture certifications (e.g. TOGAF) and cloud certifications.
• MarTech and AdTech platforms, API-led and event-driven integration, CDP/CMS/CRM analytics suites, Azure, AWS, GCP.
• Architecture tools such as Lucidchart, LeanIX and ArchiMate.

What we offer

• Opportunity to shape the enterprise technology landscape with influence across several business areas.
• Continuous learning and coaching, with opportunities to lead strategic technology decisions.
• A diverse and inclusive culture.