Senior AI Practice Lead: Enterprise GenAI & Azure

Accenture PLC; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture PLC in Dublin seeks a senior AI engineering leader to drive production-ready AI across practices, shaping strategy and delivering end-to-end solutions using Azure AI, Copilot and data platforms. You will guide complex programs, establish standards and translate opportunities into scalable roadmaps.

The role blends strategic leadership with deep technical review, leading cross-functional teams and engaging senior client stakeholders to ensure secure, measurable outcomes across

Qualifications

• Extensive software, data or ML engineering leadership across enterprise AI delivery.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Hands-on knowledge of Azure AI services and cloud-native architectures.

Responsibilities

• Support executive conversations, origination, proposals, estimation and capability building across practices.
• Lead multidisciplinary teams, unblock complex issues and assure technical quality across programmes.
• Translate business opportunities into delivery roadmaps, target architectures, prototypes and production implementations.
• Lead the architecture and engineering of generative-AI, agentic-AI and machine-learning solutions across multiple client contexts.
• Define reusable patterns for retrieval, prompts, tools, agents, evaluation, content safety and oversight.
• Guide integration with enterprise data, APIs and Microsoft 365 ecosystems.
• Establish engineering standards for model lifecycle, security, privacy and release.

Skills

Senior AI leadership

Cross-functional leadership

Azure AI services

Python

APIs

Cloud-native architecture

Generative AI

Agent orchestration

Model evaluation

Responsible AI

Tools

Azure OpenAI

Databricks

Kubernetes

MLflow

Job description

Accenture PLC in Dublin seeks a senior AI engineering leader to drive production-ready AI across practices, shaping strategy and delivering end-to-end solutions using Azure AI, Copilot and data platforms. You will guide complex programs, establish standards and translate opportunities into scalable roadmaps.

The role blends strategic leadership with deep technical review, leading cross-functional teams and engaging senior client stakeholders to ensure secure, measurable outcomes across