AI-Driven SDLC Transformation Lead

Accenture PLC; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 94,000 - 266,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Life insurance

401(k)

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Job summary

Accenture seeks an AI SDLC Transformation Manager to guide enterprise clients in redesigning software delivery to be AI-native. You’ll map and redesign delivery processes, and design agentic workflows across upstream SDLC phases, leveraging cutting-edge AI tooling and multi-agent patterns.

You will contribute to strategy, design, and change management as engineers move to AI-augmented approaches while collaborating with clients to modernize their SDLC oversight.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years working across the full SDLC, requirements through release, with demonstrated ability to map, measure, and redesign delivery processes.
• Minimum of 3 years hands-on experience designing or building multi-agent or LLM-integrated systems, including prompt engineering, tool-use orchestration, or agentic application development.
• Minimum of 3 years in a consulting or advisory capacity working with engineering organizations, ideally at enterprise scale (5,000+ employees or $1B+ revenue).
• Minimum of 3 years applying flow metrics (cycle time, WIP, throughput) or value stream mapping as diagnostic tools.
• Minimum of 2 years working directly with AI/ML systems, LLMs, or agentic architectures in a professional context.

Responsibilities

• Value stream mapping and flow metric analysis to identify waste in existing SDLC practices.
• Design of AI-native to-be processes that restructure and accelerate how software is defined, designed, and governed.
• Change management for engineering teams transitioning to AI-augmented workflows.
• Strategy and design of agentic systems targeting upstream SDLC phases: requirements generation, user story synthesis, design reviews, architecture validation.
• Know how and where to use creator and reviewer agent patterns and the token impact of doing so.

Skills

SDLC experience

AI/LLM integration

Consulting experience

Flow metrics

Agentic systems

Requirements engineering

Multi-agent patterns

Prompt engineering

Tool orchestration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years)

Tools

GitHub Copilot

Cursor

Amazon Q Developer

Cody

Job description

Accenture seeks an AI SDLC Transformation Manager to guide enterprise clients in redesigning software delivery to be AI-native. You’ll map and redesign delivery processes, and design agentic workflows across upstream SDLC phases, leveraging cutting-edge AI tooling and multi-agent patterns.

You will contribute to strategy, design, and change management as engineers move to AI-augmented approaches while collaborating with clients to modernize their SDLC oversight.