Agentic AI Engineering Manager

Accenture PLC; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture PLC is seeking an AI Engineer (Agentic/Applied) to design, build, and deploy production-grade agentic AI solutions across the enterprise technology stack. You will work directly with client engineering teams, lead technical design sessions, and develop reusable patterns and accelerators that scale beyond individual engagements.

The role requires extensive production-grade software engineering, hands-on experience with agentic AI, RAG pipelines, LLM APIs, and cloud-native architectures.

Qualifications

• Extensive software engineering experience in production environments.
• Hands-on experience designing and deploying agentic AI solutions in production environments.
• Experience with agentic orchestration frameworks: LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen at production depth.
• Direct experience calling LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Vertex AI) in production code with provider abstraction.
• RAG pipeline ownership: embeddings, chunking strategy, vector databases, and context engineering.
• LLMOps fundamentals: eval harness design, prompt versioning, production observability.
• Cloud-native engineering: Kubernetes, Docker, microservices, serverless, CI/CD, IaC (Terraform or Helm).
• Strong Python; Java or equivalent backend language; production debugging and observability.
• Leadership: experience managing and developing engineers; career conversations.

Responsibilities

• Architect and govern production-grade agentic solutions at enterprise scale.
• Define RAG pipeline standards across engagements; establish chunking and embeddings strategies.
• Set multi-LLM integration standards and vendor-agnostic architecture.
• Own LLMOps at programme scale: evaluation strategy, prompt governance, observability.
• Lead client engineering engagements and drive architecture sessions and POCs.
• Publish reusable patterns, accelerators, and engineering standards.
• Define program-level AI impact metrics and present to senior stakeholders.

Skills

Production-grade engineering

Agentic AI

LLMOps

RAG pipelines

OpenAI API

LangGraph

Kubernetes

Docker

Python

Team leadership

Tools

LangGraph

CrewAI

AutoGen

OpenAI API

Vertex AI

Job description

Accenture PLC is seeking an AI Engineer (Agentic/Applied) to design, build, and deploy production-grade agentic AI solutions across the enterprise technology stack. You will work directly with client engineering teams, lead technical design sessions, and develop reusable patterns and accelerators that scale beyond individual engagements.

The role requires extensive production-grade software engineering, hands-on experience with agentic AI, RAG pipelines, LLM APIs, and cloud-native architectures.