FSO Audit LABS - Applications System Engineer - Senior - Bay Area

What if your career could have a lasting impact on you, and on the world?

Here at EY, you’ll have the chance to build a truly exceptional experience. We’ll empower you with the latest technology, surround you with high-performing teams, and provide the global scale and diverse and inclusive culture you need to discover your full potential. Through our coaching and training programs, you’ll develop the skillsets you need to stay relevant today and, in the future, – all while building a network of colleagues, mentors, and leaders who will be on the journey with you at EY and beyond.

The exceptional EY experience. It's yours to build.

The opportunity: your next adventure awaits

Join our audit innovation lab and you will work with our assurance teams and world-class clients to leverage leading edge technologies to find creative, technology driven solutions to our everyday client work, and where you will feel and see your impact.

As an Applications Systems Engineer, you’ll be joined by an entrepreneurial team of multidisciplinary professionals in role which focuses on the development of next-gen, cloud-based data platform that will enable the audit professionals, and data specialists in collecting, combining, and exploration of data to create insights that support our clients with their decision-making processes.  You will improve our clients’ data integrity and quality to allow for more reliable reports and insights within the accounting, finance, governance and regulatory space and pursue automation in the process to create efficiencies. 

This is the perfect role for you to get heavily involved from day one and help the practice grow. You can make an immediate impact doing great work exceeding client expectations. If you’re looking to achieve your career ambitions and explore/train in new technologies for continued growth, there are exciting opportunities for you and the team at EY. 

Your key responsibilities

• Willingness to learn new tech stack and integrating emerging technologies to enhance audit service delivery quality, solving business/client challenges through technology.
• Building user-centered applications, combining business knowledge with technology experience to build automation and analytic solutions with a focus on the financial services industry.
• Performing full life-cycle software development using agile framework including delivery and integration with other systems and applications in a cloud-based environment.
• Creating software development strategy and establish leading practice approaches based on industry trends, benchmarks, and new developments.
• Overseeing and directing staff during the build of complex software products or systems.
• Driving various stages of the development lifecycle, ensuring application/software architecture is aligned to stakeholder requirements.
• Creating and/or modifying application delivery process strategy based on industry trends, experience, leading practices, and direction of major players.
• Establishing strategy and business case for the integration of multiple applications.
• Lead the design of complex integration strategies and plans and the evaluation of complex system integration initiatives and advises on any necessary course corrections.
• Developing and maintain long-term business relationships and networks.

What we look for

• You have an agile, growth-oriented mindset. What you know matters. But the right mindset is just as important in determining success. We’re looking for people who are innovative, can work in an agile way. Ideal candidates are enthusiastic about the power of data, and are looking for opportunities to continuously learn, and enhance their skillsets by working on cloud platforms.
• You are curious and purpose driven. We’re looking for people who see opportunities instead of challenges, who ask better questions to seek better answers that build a better working world.
• You are inclusive. We’re looking for people who seek out and embrace diverse perspectives, who value differences, and team inclusively to build safety and trust. 

To qualify for the role you must have

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems Management, Accounting, Finance or a related field
• Minimum of 5 years of the following experiences, but will consider less years in experience for strong candidates.
• Experience in enterprise integration design patterns, microservices design and development, and middleware platforms including integrations, or application programming interface (API).
• Experience designing API centric solutions using at least one of the following: representational state transfer (REST), DevOps, Postman or SoapUI
• Experience developing schemas and data structures.
• Experience in the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC), including analysis, planning design, development, testing, and deployment.
• 3+ years of experience in software development in .Net or Python framework. Preferably Python with Angular or React.
• Experience converting business requirements into application and software design and managing the development lifecycle from configuration to deployment.
• Combination of experience with at least 3 of the following:
  • Experience developing schemas and data structures.
  • Experience with source control
  • Hands-on experience using any API integration framework, such as MuleSoft, WSO2 or Apigee
  • Experience with Azure Pipelines (Cl/CD)
  • Experience in DevOps and cloud implementations.
  • Experience implementing security, such as OAuth, SAML (security assertion markup language), single sign-on (SSO), or mobile device management
  • Experience with front-end web technologies, frameworks and programming languages such as AngularJS, CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), and HTML5.
  • Experience with back-end web technologies, frameworks and programming languages, such as SQL, RESTful API, JSON, Spark or model-view-controller (MVC).
  • Experience with various general and high-purpose programming languages, such as PowerShell, Python, C++, C#, Scala, Java, JavaScript, Hive, R, Ajax, or NoSQL technologies
• Experience in BI (Business Intelligence) technologies, such as Tableau, Spotfire or Microsoft Power BI
• Employer will accept any suitable combination of relevant education, training, or experience.

What’s in it for you

• Accelerate your technical capabilities and transformative leadership skills with future-focused courses and development programs.
• Broaden your horizons by working on highly integrated teams across the globe and collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds — both professionally and culturally.
• Ability to learn and work on next-gen cloud-based technologies
• Bring out the best in yourself with continuous investment in your personal well-being and career development.
• Develop your own personal purpose and help us create a positive ripple effect on our teams, our business, clients and society – building a better working world, together.
• A competitive compensation package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to our business. 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.  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.  

What you can expect

• Our approach to hiring utilizes several different formats throughout the course of the recruiting process.
• In addition to speaking with our recruiters and client-serving professionals, we also leverage game-based assessments to assess your non-technical skills and attributes in a quick and engaging experience. This includes your collaboration style and your abilities to work with information and the use of pre-recorded video interviews (PRVI). PRVI technology provides a great opportunity for you to share more about your qualifications and interests, as well as to ask more specifics about EY and the role for which you are interviewing. It also provides you with the flexibility and convenience of completing at a time and place that works best for your schedule.
• Additional interviews may be in the form of a live interview, either via video or in-person.