AI-Native Engineering Manager: Build Production AI Systems

Accenture PLC; Detroit (MI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Life Insurance

401(k)

Bonus opportunities

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Job summary

Accenture seeks a senior software engineer to design and operate end-to-end production systems across frontend, API, data, and AI components. You will own architecture, provisioning, and delivery, spanning cloud platforms and CI/CD pipelines with strong focus on security and observability.

You will lead engineering teams, collaborate with client technologists, and drive AI-enabled solutions in production while remaining hands-on for design and implementation and travel as required.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production systems.
• 5+ years across multiple stack layers: front end or API through services, integration, persistence, and async processing.
• 5+ years in one major language (Java, Python, Go, TypeScript/JavaScript, or C#).
• 5+ years with a major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP), including containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and IaC (Terraform, Helm).
• 5+ years designing and operating CI/CD pipelines to production with automated testing and security controls.
• At least 1 year designing and deploying AI-enabled or agentic systems in production or near-production.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent (or 12+ years experience).

Responsibilities

• Design and build production systems across front end, APIs, backend services, integration, data, infrastructure, and AI components.
• Diagnose production issues across code, networks, infrastructure, identity, data, and AI workloads.
• Design and deploy workloads using containers, Kubernetes, serverless, and IaC; leverage cloud capabilities (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Lead DevSecOps and production engineering, enabling CI/CD, automated testing, security scanning, and release controls.
• Engineer data and context architectures, including retrieval, embeddings, metadata, and privacy controls.
• Develop AI-enabled or agentic capabilities and integrate them into live enterprise systems.

Skills

Software engineering

Java

Python

Go

TypeScript/JavaScript

C#

AWS

Azure

GCP

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

CI/CD

AI-enabled systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Helm

Job description

Accenture seeks a senior software engineer to design and operate end-to-end production systems across frontend, API, data, and AI components. You will own architecture, provisioning, and delivery, spanning cloud platforms and CI/CD pipelines with strong focus on security and observability.

You will lead engineering teams, collaborate with client technologists, and drive AI-enabled solutions in production while remaining hands-on for design and implementation and travel as required.