AI-Native Engineering Lead: Enterprise Agentic Systems

Accenture PLC; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking an AI Native Engineer with 5+ years of experience in building cloud-native solutions and agentic systems for enterprise environments. You will design, build, and run custom AI agents that augment workflows, embedding with clients as a trusted advisor to deliver scalable AI-native platforms.

You will lead design workshops, pilot projects, and production deployments across industries, collaborating with stakeholders to ensure secure, robust, and measurable outcomes.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years engineering experience with cloud-native systems (APIs, microservices, containerization, serverless).
• Minimum of 1 year expertise in designing and deploying agentic solutions (agents, orchestration, context engineering, RAG, workflows) in production environments.
• Minimum of 2 years experience with AI platforms — OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI, plus open-source models — including building abstraction layers to manage multi-provider pipelines.
• Minimum of 5 years experience programming in Python, Java, or equivalent; familiarity with evaluation tooling, logging, monitoring, and agent observability.
• Minimum of 5 years experience deploying to production — CI/CD, infrastructure as code (Terraform, Helm), monitoring, and debugging.
• Minimum of 5 years experience with client communication and collaboration, including being capable of leading technical workshops and delivering under ambiguity.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience.

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.

Skills

Client engagement

Workshop facilitation

Critical thinking

Ambiguity handling

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD

Terraform

Helm

Job description

Accenture is seeking an AI Native Engineer with 5+ years of experience in building cloud-native solutions and agentic systems for enterprise environments. You will design, build, and run custom AI agents that augment workflows, embedding with clients as a trusted advisor to deliver scalable AI-native platforms.

You will lead design workshops, pilot projects, and production deployments across industries, collaborating with stakeholders to ensure secure, robust, and measurable outcomes.