Lead AI Architect: GenAI & Agentic AI for Growth

Accenture PLC; Manchester; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days leave

Flexible work policies

Pension plan

Private healthcare

Employee Assistance Programme

Career development

Parental Leave

Job summary

Accenture Song is seeking a Lead AI Solution Architect in Manchester to own end-to-end data and AI solution delivery, spanning machine learning products, generative AI and agentic AI systems.

You will define target architectures, provide technical leadership and shepherd solutions from concept through live service and continuous improvement, collaborating with product owners and engineers to drive measurable business value.

Qualifications

• Production GenAI experience with LLMs and deployment
• Experience applying AI to customer growth, personalisation, marketing, commerce, sales or service
• Deep understanding of ML, LLMs, RAG, agentic systems and enterprise deployment patterns
• Strong software engineering, data architecture and cloud platform knowledge
• Experience integrating enterprise data into AI solutions and governance
• Proven leadership of multidisciplinary teams delivering architectural outcomes
• Ability to communicate with technical and senior business stakeholders
• Experience designing trustworthy, compliant AI solutions with governance
• Mentoring engineers, data scientists and architects to raise delivery capability

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end architectures for AI, generative AI and analytics across the customer lifecycle.
• Define scalable, secure and resilient technical architecture aligned to business goals.
• Lead design of AI platforms and applications integrating ML, generative AI and agentic AI with enterprise systems.
• Make architecture decisions on tech selection, security, performance and operations.
• Lead multidisciplinary delivery teams from concept to production deployment and optimisation.
• Ensure responsible AI, security and privacy controls are in place and governed.
• Establish standards across the AI & Modelling Craft and mentor technical teams.
• Engage client stakeholders and shape proposals, roadmaps and technical strategies.

Skills

GenAI experience

Customer domain expertise

Modern AI architecture

Cloud foundations

Enterprise data

Technical leadership

Consulting & stakeholders

Responsible AI & security

People leadership

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

Accenture Song is seeking a Lead AI Solution Architect in Manchester to own end-to-end data and AI solution delivery, spanning machine learning products, generative AI and agentic AI systems.

You will define target architectures, provide technical leadership and shepherd solutions from concept through live service and continuous improvement, collaborating with product owners and engineers to drive measurable business value.