AI Native Software Engineering Senior Manager

Accenture the Netherlands; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture the Netherlands seeks an AI Native Engineer with 5+ years’ cloud-native experience to design and deploy agentic systems for enterprise clients. You’ll embed with customers as technologist and trusted advisor, defining use cases, prototyping rapidly, and delivering robust AI workflows that scale within real-world environments.

You’ll work across finance, healthcare and retail, building end-to-end agentic applications with retrieval, orchestration and tool invocation, while ensuring

Qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering experience with cloud-native systems (APIs, microservices, containerization, serverless).
• 1+ year of deep expertise designing and deploying agentic solutions in production.
• 7+ years of experience with AI platforms (OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI) and multi-provider pipelines.
• 10+ years programming in Python, Java, or equivalent with observability tooling.
• 10+ years deploying to production with CI/CD, IaC (Terraform/Helm), monitoring, and debugging.
• 10+ years in client communication, workshops, and delivering under ambiguity.
• Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering; AI certifications or agentic tools is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and engineer enterprise-ready AI agents with retrieval, orchestration, policy-based routing, tool invocation, evaluation harnesses, and observability.
• Develop abstraction layers across AI providers to enable seamless integration and enablement.
• Leverage Kubernetes, Docker, microservices, serverless, event-driven architectures, CI/CD, and observability to deliver scalable AI-native systems.
• Tailor and deploy agentic applications across verticals — finance, healthcare, retail — addressing domain-specific processes via intelligent automation.
• Conduct design workshops, POCs, and code-with sessions to shape data-driven agent workflows with stakeholders.
• Define and use key metrics, test harnesses, and evaluation plans to measure agent accuracy, latency, safety, and cost effectiveness.
• Craft reusable patterns, documentation, and best practices to influence internal assets and client roadmaps.

Skills

Cloud-native engineering

Agentic AI engineering

AI platforms (OpenAI, Claude, VertexAI

Programming (Python, Java)

Production deployment & observability

Client engagement & workshops

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Helm

CI/CD tooling

Job description

We are:

A forward-thinking services company at the forefront of AI-native innovation. We partner with enterprise clients to create next-generation, agent-powered workflows engineered to scale in real-world settings. Our engineers embed deeply with customers, moving projects beyond experimentation into operational reality.

We are:

A forward-thinking services company at the forefront of AI-native innovation. We partner with enterprise clients to create next-generation, agent-powered workflows engineered to scale in real-world settings. Our engineers embed deeply with customers, moving projects beyond experimentation into operational reality.

You are:

An AI Native Engineer with a minimum of 5 years of experience building cloud-native solutions, and deep expertise in designing and deploying agentic systems, especially for enterprise environments. You are a critical thinker that thrives in ambiguity, delivering concrete results by designing, building, and running custom AI agents that augment workflows and scale across modern infrastructure. You’ll help shape the playbook for how enterprises adopt and scale AI-native engineering globally.

The Work:

You’ll embed directly with clients — acting as both technologist and trusted advisor. You’ll partner with stakeholders to define use cases, rapidly prototype, and deploy agentic workflows that are robust, secure, and operational in complex enterprise domains. Often, these will be completely net new platforms and systems that need to be stitched together in our clients' environments alongside our Ecosystem partners.

Responsibilities:

• Agent Architecture and Engineering: Design and engineer enterprise-ready AI agents encompassing retrieval, orchestration, policy-based routing, tool invocation, evaluation harnesses, and lifecycle observability.
• AI Platform Integration: Develop abstraction layers across AI providers (Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, etc. ) to enable seamless integration and enablement.
• Cloud-Native Engineering: Leverage containerization (Kubernetes, Docker), microservices, serverless, event-driven architectures, CI/CD, and observability to deliver scalable AI-native systems.
• Domain-Specific Workflows: Tailor and deploy agentic applications across verticals — e.g., finance, healthcare, retail — addressing domain-specific processes via intelligent automation.
• Client Engagement: Conduct design workshops, POCs, and code-with sessions to shape data-driven agent workflows with stakeholders, fostering trust and adoption.
• Measure & Improve: Define and use key metrics, test harnesses, and evaluation plans to measure agent accuracy, latency, safety, and cost effectiveness.
• Knowledge Sharing: Craft reusable patterns, documentation, and best practices to influence internal assets and client roadmaps.

Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirements.

What You Need:

• Minimum of 10 years engineering experience with cloud-native systems (APIs, microservices, containerization, serverless).
• Minimum of 1 years of deep expertise in designing and deploying agentic solutions (agents, orchestration, context engineering, RAG, workflows) in production environments.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience with AI platforms — OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI, plus open-source models — including building abstraction layers to manage multi-provider pipelines.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience programming in Python, Java, or equivalent; familiarity with evaluation tooling, logging, monitoring, and agent observability.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience deploying to production — CI/CD, infrastructure as code (Terraform, Helm), monitoring, and debugging.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in client communication and collaboration, including being capable of leading technical workshops and delivering under ambiguity.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent; additional AI certifications or agentic tool experience is a plus.

Bonus Points If:

• You’ve served as an Agentic AI Engineer in an Enterprise environment
• You’ve defined or worked with enterprise-grade architectures for compound AI systems, orchestration frameworks, or agent registry/stream-based architectures.
• You understand the AI-native paradigm — blending cloud-native with generative model architectures — optimizing for performance, modularity, and efficiency.
• You’ve delivered solutions across multiple industries (e.g., finance, healthcare) by tailoring agentic workflows to industry needs.

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired as set forth below.

We accept applications on an on-going basis and there is no fixed deadline to apply.