AI-Driven SDLC Transformation Manager

Accenture; Sacramento (CA); Hybrid; USD 94,000 - 266,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision benefits

401(k) plan with match

Paid holidays and time off

Job summary

Accenture seeks an AI SDLC Transformation Manager to guide enterprise clients in redesigning software delivery for an AI-native future. You will surface waste with flow metrics, design future-state AI workflows, and build agentic systems for upstream SDLC phases while translating evolving AI tooling into practical roadmaps for large organizations.

You will collaborate across product, engineering, QA, security, and platform teams, travel as needed, and partner with Accenture's global technology

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years across the full SDLC with demonstrated ability to map, measure, and redesign delivery processes.

Responsibilities

• Value stream mapping and flow metric analysis to identify waste in SDLC processes.
• Design of AI-native to-be processes that restructure and accelerate software definition, design, and governance.
• 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 review, and architecture validation.
• Know how and where to use creator and reviewer agent patterns and the token impact of doing so.
• Model SDLC as a system, identifying feedback loops and bottlenecks of process changes.
• Cross-functional collaboration across product, engineering, QA, security, and platform.
• Maintain fluency in evolving AI tooling ecosystems and MCP/tool orchestration.
• Ongoing research on capability shifts and model releases in practitioner patterns.
• Translate benchmarks of digitally native organizations into actionable enterprise roadmaps.

Skills

Value stream mapping

Flow metric analysis

Multi-agent systems

LLM-integrated design

Consulting experience

Prompt engineering

Tool orchestration

Agentic architectures

AI tooling ecosystem

Research in AI transformations

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent (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 for an AI-native future. You will surface waste with flow metrics, design future-state AI workflows, and build agentic systems for upstream SDLC phases while translating evolving AI tooling into practical roadmaps for large organizations.

You will collaborate across product, engineering, QA, security, and platform teams, travel as needed, and partner with Accenture's global technology