AI-Native Engineering Lead: Production Systems

Accenture PLC; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 90,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) plan

Bonuses

Paid time off

Job summary

Accenture in the United States seeks a senior software engineer to design, build, and operate production systems across frontend, APIs, data, cloud, and AI components.

You will lead multidisciplinary teams, own architecture decisions, and drive secure, scalable delivery. Partner with client technology leaders to translate ambiguous requirements into tangible increments and production outcomes.

This role offers opportunities to shape AI-native engineering practices at scale.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production systems.
• 5+ years across multiple stack layers (front end to API, data, and integrations).
• 5+ years of programming in Java, Python, Go, TypeScript/JavaScript, or C#.
• 5+ years of hands-on production experience with AWS/Azure/GCP.
• 5 years designing and operating CI/CD pipelines to production.
• 1+ years designing AI-enabled or agentic systems in production or near-production environments.
• 1+ years applying AI-native engineering tools (code generation, automated testing, debugging, modernization, documentation).
• 5+ years leading engineering teams or significant technical workstreams with client-facing delivery.
• Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent (or 12 years of work experience).

Responsibilities

• Design and build production systems across frontend, APIs, backend, data, infrastructure, and AI components.
• Diagnose production issues across code, networks, infrastructure, identity, data, or AI workloads.
• Lead multidisciplinary teams and set technical direction while remaining hands-on to inspect and prototype.
• Turn delivery into reusable patterns and contribute to internal communities of practice.
• Partner with client technology leaders to translate ambiguous requirements into architectures and measurable outcomes.

Skills

Software engineering

Cloud platforms

CI/CD pipelines

AI-enabled systems

Programming languages

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Helm

Job description

Accenture in the United States seeks a senior software engineer to design, build, and operate production systems across frontend, APIs, data, cloud, and AI components.

You will lead multidisciplinary teams, own architecture decisions, and drive secure, scalable delivery. Partner with client technology leaders to translate ambiguous requirements into tangible increments and production outcomes.

This role offers opportunities to shape AI-native engineering practices at scale.