Director, Production AI Agentic Systems

Accenture PLC; Greater London; On-site; GBP 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture PLC in the United Kingdom seeks an AI Engineer (Agentic/Applied) to design, build, and deploy production-grade agentic AI systems across the enterprise tech stack. You will collaborate with client engineering teams, lead technical design sessions, and build reusable accelerators that scale beyond engagements.

This role focuses on production-ready agentic architectures, LLM orchestration standards, RAG pipelines, and end-to-end MLOps governance across multiple platforms and providers.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Architect and govern production-grade agentic systems at enterprise scale across environments.
• Define RAG pipeline standards and quality benchmarks for engagements.
• Set multi-LLM integration standards with vendor-agnostic architecture and cost governance.
• Own LLMOps at programme scale including eval strategy and observability.
• Lead client engineering engagements at senior level and drive architecture sessions.
• Publish reusable patterns, accelerators, and engineering standards.
• Own measurement framework for agentic system quality with business impact reporting.

Skills

Production software engineering

Agentic AI solutions

LLM APIs in production

Python

Java

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD

Leadership

Tools

LangGraph

CrewAI

AutoGen

Job description

Accenture PLC in the United Kingdom seeks an AI Engineer (Agentic/Applied) to design, build, and deploy production-grade agentic AI systems across the enterprise tech stack. You will collaborate with client engineering teams, lead technical design sessions, and build reusable accelerators that scale beyond engagements.

This role focuses on production-ready agentic architectures, LLM orchestration standards, RAG pipelines, and end-to-end MLOps governance across multiple platforms and providers.