Head of Production AI Engineering

Accenture Infrastructure and Capital Projects, LLC; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

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

You will own LLMOps, define evaluation and observability standards, and drive architecture discussions with senior stakeholders. Strong Python and cloud-native experience are required.

Qualifications

• Experience shipping production-grade agentic AI solutions.
• Hands-on experience calling LLM APIs in production code.
• Proficient in cloud-native engineering (Kubernetes, microservices, CI/CD).
• Strong Python and at least one backend language (Java or equivalent).

Responsibilities

• Architect and govern production-grade agentic solutions at enterprise scale across environments.
• Define RAG pipeline standards and embedding strategies.
• Own LLMOps, evaluation strategies, and observability tooling.
• Lead client engineering engagements at senior level and drive architecture sessions.
• Publish reusable patterns and engineering standards across engagements.
• Define program-level AI impact in business terms to stakeholders.

Skills

Python programming

Architectural design

Production debugging

Client engagements

Team leadership

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

LangGraph

CrewAI

AutoGen

Job description

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

You will own LLMOps, define evaluation and observability standards, and drive architecture discussions with senior stakeholders. Strong Python and cloud-native experience are required.