AI Forward Deployed Technology Senior Manager

1200 Accenture Inc Company; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 142,000 - 292,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture’s Advanced Technology Centers in Canada seeks a senior AI leader to design and deliver cloud-native AI agents and agentic workflows across complex enterprise environments. You will architect scalable, secure solutions, integrate with major AI platforms, and guide client engagements from concept to production.

You will collaborate with stakeholders, optimize performance and cost, and mentor teams while upholding governance and reliability.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years building cloud-native systems including APIs, microservices, and serverless architectures.
• Minimum 1 year designing and deploying agentic AI solutions in production.
• Minimum 1 year using agentic orchestration tools such as LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen or similar frameworks.
• Experience with AI platforms including OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI, and open-source models.
• 10+ years programming in Python, Java, or equivalent.
• Experience with CI/CD, IaC, and observability tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver enterprise-grade AI agents with retrieval, orchestration, tool invocation, and observability.
• Develop abstraction layers across AI providers for seamless integration.
• Leverage containerization, microservices, serverless, and event-driven architectures for scalable AI-native systems.
• Deploy agentic applications across industries such as finance, healthcare, and retail.
• Lead design workshops and proofs of concept with client stakeholders.
• Define metrics for agent accuracy, latency, safety, and cost.
• Utilize enterprise tools like GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, and OpenAI Codex to accelerate SDLC.

Skills

Cloud-native systems

APIs

Microservices

Serverless

Python/Java

CI/CD

Observability

Education

Bachelor’s degree or college program

Tools

LangGraph

CrewAI

AutoGen

OpenAI

Claude

Vertex AI

Job description

We are: The Advanced Technology Centers (ATCs) are the engine for reinvention in our clients’ transformation journey. Powered by more than 255,000 people across 24 countries, ATCs provide our clients with seamless access to industry insights and innovative technology solutions. Stronger together! The Advanced Technology Centers (ATCs) make a tremendous impact in solving our clients’ business problems by leveraging innovation, intelligence, industry insights, new IT, and new technology skills. With the global environment changing at a faster pace, our clients are facing unprecedented challenges, and they need us more than ever before. As a Network, ATCs are positioned to unlock greater opportunities and exponential value for our clients. The value for our clients and our people: For our clients, the Network provides the strength of our geographic diversity, greater resilience, and seamless access to the deepest industry knowledge, the latest in Gen AI solutions, and tech expertise from around the world. For our people, it brings an opportunity to shape truly boundaryless career paths in a highly collaborative team of experts where they can learn from each other and solve the world’s most complex client challenges.

You Are An AI Native Technology Leader with strong experience building cloud-native solutions and deep expertise in designing and deploying agentic systems for enterprise environments. You thrive in ambiguity and deliver concrete results by designing, building, and running custom AI agents that augment workflows and scale across modern infrastructure.

The Work You will embed directly with clients as both technologist and trusted advisor. You will partner with stakeholders to define use cases, rapidly prototype, and deploy agentic workflows that are robust, secure, and operational in complex enterprise domains.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver enterprise-ready AI agents encompassing retrieval, orchestration, policy-based routing, tool invocation, evaluation harnesses, and lifecycle observability.
• Develop abstraction layers across AI providers (Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, etc.) to enable seamless integration.
• Leverage containerization, microservices, serverless, and event-driven architectures to deliver scalable AI-native systems.
• Tailor and deploy agentic applications across industries such as finance, healthcare, and retail.
• Conduct design workshops, proofs of concept, and code-with sessions with client stakeholders.
• Define and use metrics to measure agent accuracy, latency, safety, and cost effectiveness.
• Leverage enterprise agentic tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, and OpenAI Codex to automate phases of the software development lifecycle (SDLC).

This role will require a minimum of 3 days per week in the office. Preferred location: Montreal, Quebec or Mississauga, Ontario.

Here’s What You Need:

• Minimum of 10 years of experience building cloud-native systems including APIs, microservices, and serverless architectures.
• Minimum 1 year of experience designing and deploying agentic AI solutions in production environments.
• Minimum of 1 year of experience with agentic orchestration tools such as LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, or similar frameworks.
• Experience working with AI platforms including OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI, and open-source models.
• Minimum of 10 years Python, Java, or equivalent programming experience.
• Experience deploying and operating production systems with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and observability tooling.
• Bachelor’s degree or completion of a college program in a related discipline.
• English is required for this position as this role will regularly interact with English-speaking stakeholders across Canada. Due to the significant high volume of interactions with these. English-speaking stakeholders, which is inherent to this position, it is not possible to reorganize the company's activities to avoid this requirement.

Compensation

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation, based on full-time employment, for roles that may be hired as set forth below. The base pay range shown below is intended as a guideline to reflect the majority of offers for this role. It does not represent a maximum limit - in some cases, actual compensation may exceed the range where appropriate.

Role Location Annual Salary Range British Columbia/Ontario/New Brunswick $142,050 to $292,000 #LI-NA-FY25 and #LI-MP

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services-creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries.

Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360 value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360 value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com

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