AI Architect — Associate Director, Enterprise GenAI Platforms

Accenture; Detroit (MI); On-site; USD 170,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture seeks an AI/ML Senior Architect to design and scale enterprise-grade AI platforms across public, private, and sovereign clouds. You will partner with clients to set AI strategy, architect reference solutions, and deliver agent frameworks leveraging GenAI and foundation models.

Lead end-to-end architecture covering orchestration, governance, security, LLMOps, observability, and scalable knowledge architectures, while guiding engineering teams from ideation through production deployment.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 12 years of experience in Python, Java, or equivalent.
• Experience with AI technologies from public clouds, open source, and 3rd party tooling.
• 4+ years designing and operationalizing large-scale AI/ML on major public clouds.
• Hands-on experience with AI platforms (Claude, open-source) and MLOps/LLMOps.

Responsibilities

• Architect enterprise-ready AI agent systems: retrieval, orchestration, governance, evaluation, lifecycle observability.
• Lead architecture workshops with client and Accenture teams; finalize requirements and TCO for AI solutions.
• Evaluate, rationalize, and select technologies for full-stack AI platforms; build financial-viability models.
• Design architectural blueprints (multi-agent, AI security, runtime, governance, DevOps, knowledge layer).
• Design knowledge architecture (knowledge graphs, semantic layers) enabling AI agents at scale.
• Architect for scalability, security, governance, and performance on clouds.
• Design reusable AI components, agents, and solution patterns for repeatable delivery.
• Architect and stand up custom agent frameworks across providers (Bedrock, Claude SDK); scalable reference architectures.

Skills

Python

Java

Observability

Cloud platforms

MLOps

LangGraph

CrewAI

AutoGen

GenAI

Security

Governance

Agent orchestration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Claude

Bedrock

Anthropic Claude Agent SDK

Job description

Accenture seeks an AI/ML Senior Architect to design and scale enterprise-grade AI platforms across public, private, and sovereign clouds. You will partner with clients to set AI strategy, architect reference solutions, and deliver agent frameworks leveraging GenAI and foundation models.

Lead end-to-end architecture covering orchestration, governance, security, LLMOps, observability, and scalable knowledge architectures, while guiding engineering teams from ideation through production deployment.