Technology and business process sit at the heart of most modern organisations, creating opportunity while introducing complex risk. As a Shaper of the future, you’ll join our Technology Risk teams, blending digital expertise with advanced technology and controls insight to help clients understand, manage and transform. You’ll drive impact – helping organisations grow, protect and evolve through technology-led solutions to real-world challenges.
Core skills for success
- Learning agility – Gaining a broad understanding of the business and IT landscape of some of our biggest clients, including their approach to cybersecurity, internal controls, data protection, resiliency, and software asset management.
- Curious mindset – Assessing complex projects to spot risks and make recommendations.
- Analytical thinking – Analysing data, communicating with clients and presenting your work.
- Digital, data and AI fluency – Understanding the risks associated with emerging technologies, including cloud adoption, the use of Artificial Intelligence and Robotic Process Automation.
What you will be doing
- Use data, technology and professional judgement to help clients safeguard their Business and IT environments and meet contractual and legislative obligations.
- Grow in your career to lead meetings, identify issues, and propose solutions.
- Communicate and collaborate with EY teams across the globe working across a portfolio of work assigned to you. This will involve a mixture of hybrid working – travelling to client offices, working in the EY office and from home.
- Develop your skills through hands‑on experience, coaching, and formal learning towards industry-standard qualifications.
Please note: If you are successful in securing an offer you will be required to remain in Northern Ireland for the entire duration of the programme. The offer cannot be transferred to any other EY location in the UK or Ireland.
Eligibility for applying
You will need to be working towards an honours degree in any subject, have a minimum of grade 4/C GCSE (or equivalent) in English Language and Maths, or in your home language if you do not hold English Language GCSE, and three A-levels/Five Highers (or equivalent) to be eligible to apply.
While we welcome applications from candidates of all academic backgrounds, we are looking to recruit individuals who will succeed at EY in the role and future qualifications. We have completed several studies on academic attainment at A-level (or equivalents), candidate performance in the online assessments in the EY recruitment process, and how that predicts future performance at EY.
Throughout the recruitment process, we therefore assess your suitability for the EY role you have applied to by considering your scores in the online assessments and your academic attainment at A-level or equivalent. This approach is designed to ensure our joiners are successful in role and, where relevant, in the achievement of their professional qualifications. It is important to EY, and we have a duty of care which we take very seriously, to ensure our joiners are set up for long-term success.
