AI Native Development Lead - Reinvention Center

Accenture; Montreal (administrative region); Hybrid; CAD 100,000 - 217,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture in Canada is seeking an AI Native Development Lead who designs, builds, and runs agentic AI agents to automate enterprise workflows across client environments. You will embed with clients as technologist and trusted advisor, prototype use cases, and deploy robust, secure agentic capabilities using Kubernetes, Docker, and multi-provider AI platforms.

This role requires strong collaboration, working with English-speaking stakeholders, and delivering with ambiguity while shaping scalable

Qualifications

• 3+ years in cloud-native development (APIs, microservices, containerization)
• 1 year designing agentic solutions (agents, orchestration, context design, RAG, workflows) in production
• 3+ years experience with AI platforms — OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI, plus open-source models
• 5+ years programming in Python, Java, or equivalent; familiarity with evaluation tooling, logging, monitoring, and agent observability
• 5+ years deploying to production — CI/CD, infrastructure as code (Terraform, Helm), monitoring, and debugging
• 5+ years experience with client communication and collaboration, including leading technical workshops under ambiguity
• Bachelor’s degree or completion of a college program in a related discipline
• English language proficiency required for interaction with English-speaking stakeholders across Canada

Responsibilities

• Design and develop enterprise-ready AI agents encompassing retrieval, orchestration, policy-based routing, tool invocation, evaluation harnesses, and lifecycle observability.
• AI Platform Integration: Develop abstraction layers across AI providers to enable seamless integration and enablement.
• Cloud-Native Development: Leverage containerization (Kubernetes, Docker), microservices, serverless, event-driven architectures, CI/CD, and observability to deliver scalable AI-native systems.
• Domain-Specific Workflows: Tailor and deploy agentic applications across verticals — e.g., finance, healthcare, retail — addressing domain-specific processes via intelligent automation.
• Client Engagement: Conduct design workshops, POCs, and code-with sessions to shape data-driven agent workflows with stakeholders, fostering trust and adoption.
• Measure & Improve: Define and use key metrics, test harnesses, and evaluation plans to measure agent accuracy, latency, safety, and cost effectiveness.
• Knowledge Sharing: Craft reusable patterns, documentation, and best practices to influence internal assets and client roadmaps

Skills

Cloud-native development

Agentic solutions design

AI platforms

Python/Java development

Production deployment

Client engagement

English language

Education

Bachelor's degree or college program in a related discipline

Job description

We are:

The Advanced Technology Centers (ATCs) is the engine for reinvention in our clients’ transformation journey. Powered by more than 255,000* people across 24 countries, ATCs will provide our clients with seamless access to industry insights and innovative technology solutions.

We are:

The Advanced Technology Centers (ATCs) is the engine for reinvention in our clients’ transformation journey. Powered by more than 255,000* people across 24 countries, ATCs will provide our clients with seamless access to industry insights and innovative technology solutions.

Stronger together!

The Advanced Technology Centers (ATCs) make tremendous impact in solving our clients’ business problems leveraging Innovation, Intelligence, Industry insights, new IT and new technology skills. Now, 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 Development Lead with experience building cloud-native solutions, and deep expertise in designing and deploying agentic systems, especially for enterprise environments. You are a critical thinker that thrives in ambiguity, delivering concrete results by designing, building, and running custom AI agents that augment workflows and scale across modern infrastructure. You’ll help shape the playbook for how enterprises adopt and scale AI-native development globally.

The Work:

You’ll embed directly with clients — acting as both technologist and trusted advisor. You’ll partner with stakeholders to define use cases, rapidly prototype, and deploy agentic workflows that are robust, secure, and operational in complex enterprise domains. Often, these will be completely net new platforms and systems that need to be stitched together in our clients' environments alongside our Ecosystem partners.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop enterprise-ready AI agents encompassing retrieval, orchestration, policy-based routing, tool invocation, evaluation harnesses, and lifecycle observability.


• AI Platform Integration: Develop abstraction layers across AI providers (Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, etc. ) to enable seamless integration and enablement.


• Cloud-Native Development: Leverage containerization (Kubernetes, Docker), microservices, serverless, event-driven architectures, CI/CD, and observability to deliver scalable AI-native systems.


• Domain-Specific Workflows: Tailor and deploy agentic applications across verticals — e.g., finance, healthcare, retail — addressing domain-specific processes via intelligent automation.


• Client Engagement: Conduct design workshops, POCs, and code-with sessions to shape data-driven agent workflows with stakeholders, fostering trust and adoption.


• Measure & Improve: Define and use key metrics, test harnesses, and evaluation plans to measure agent accuracy, latency, safety, and cost effectiveness.


• Knowledge Sharing: Craft reusable patterns, documentation, and best practices to influence internal assets and client roadmaps

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 3 years development experience with cloud-native systems (APIs, microservices, containerization, serverless).


• Minimum of 1 year expertise in designing and deploying agentic solutions (agents, orchestration, context design, RAG, workflows) in production environments.


• Minimum of 3 years experience with AI platforms — OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI, plus open-source models — including building abstraction layers to manage multi-provider pipelines.


• Minimum of 5 years experience programming in Python, Java, or equivalent; familiarity with evaluation tooling, logging, monitoring, and agent observability.


• Minimum of 5 years experience deploying to production — CI/CD, infrastructure as code (Terraform, Helm), monitoring, and debugging.


• Minimum of 5 years experience with client communication and collaboration, including being capable of leading technical workshops and delivering under ambiguity.


• 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 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 $100,300 to $216,700