AI-Native Engineering Manager: Enterprise Agent Systems

Accenture PLC; Cleveland (OH); On-site; USD 87,000 - 253,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture PLC in the United States is seeking an AI Native Engineer with deep cloud-native and agentic systems expertise to design, deploy, and run enterprise AI agents that scale across complex environments.

You will embed with clients, prototype rapidly, define use cases, and drive robust, secure workflows while partnering with stakeholders across domains such as finance, healthcare, and retail. Travel may be required.

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. (If Associate Degree, must have minimum 6 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 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

Cloud-native engineering

Agentic AI

Client workshops

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent (12 years) work experience

Tools

OpenAI

Anthropic

Vertex AI

Job description

Accenture PLC in the United States is seeking an AI Native Engineer with deep cloud-native and agentic systems expertise to design, deploy, and run enterprise AI agents that scale across complex environments.

You will embed with clients, prototype rapidly, define use cases, and drive robust, secure workflows while partnering with stakeholders across domains such as finance, healthcare, and retail. Travel may be required.