Production-Grade AI Agent Architect

ACCENTURE; Newcastle Emlyn; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

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

This role requires hands-on production experience with agentic orchestration, LLM APIs, and RAG pipelines, plus cloud-native skills (Kubernetes, Docker) and robust observability practices.

Qualifications

• Significant software engineering experience in production environments.
• Hands-on experience designing and deploying agentic AI solutions in production.
• Experience with agentic orchestration frameworks at production depth.
• Direct experience calling LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Vertex AI) in production code.
• RAG pipeline ownership: embeddings, chunking, vector DBs, context engineering.
• LLMOps fundamentals: eval harness design, prompt versioning, observability.
• Cloud-native: Kubernetes, Docker, microservices, serverless, CI/CD, IaC.

Responsibilities

• Design and build production-grade agentic solutions end-to-end.
• Build and own RAG pipelines: embeddings, vector search, context tuning.
• Integrate and abstract across multiple LLM providers with proper routing.
• Implement LLMOps in production: eval harnesses, prompt versioning, observability.
• Collaborate with client teams to analyze SDLC and deploy agentic solutions.
• Create reusable patterns and playbooks to accelerate future engagements.
• Define metrics and report agent accuracy, latency, safety, and cost.

Skills

Production-grade software engineering

Agentic AI design & deployment

Agentic orchestration frameworks

LLM APIs in production

RAG pipelines and embeddings

LLMOps fundamentals

Cloud-native engineering

Python / backend languages

Production debugging & observability

Tools

LangGraph

CrewAI

AutoGen

OpenAI API

Vertex AI

Kubernetes

Docker

LangSmith / Braintrust observability

Job description

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

This role requires hands-on production experience with agentic orchestration, LLM APIs, and RAG pipelines, plus cloud-native skills (Kubernetes, Docker) and robust observability practices.