AI-Native Systems Engineering Manager

Accenture PLC; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 90,000 - 316,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a senior software engineer to design, build, and operate end-to-end production systems across frontend, APIs, data, and AI components. You will own architecture through production, drive DevSecOps, and implement AI-enabled, agentic capabilities for enterprise clients.

You will collaborate with client tech leaders, guide multi-disciplinary teams, and apply secure-by-design practices. Travel may be required (25%–75%), with competitive compensation by location.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience across front end or API through services, integration, persistence.
• Hands-on production experience with AWS/Azure/GCP, containers, orchestration.
• Experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines with automated testing and security controls.
• Experience designing AI-enabled or agentic systems in production.
• Proven ability to lead engineering teams or major technical workstreams.

Responsibilities

• Design and build production systems across front end, APIs, backend services, integration, data, infrastructure, and AI components.
• Diagnose production issues across application code, networks, infrastructure, data, and AI workloads.
• Engineer cloud-native platforms using containers, Kubernetes, serverless, and IaC.
• Own DevSecOps and production engineering, from commit to production with automated testing and security controls.
• Design data and context architectures for AI systems, including retrieval and context management.
• Build AI capabilities using frontier and enterprise models, and agentic systems with safety and observability.

Skills

Software engineering

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

AI-enabled systems

Security

DevSecOps

Languages (Java, Python, Go, TS/JS, C#

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Helm

OpenAI SDK

Cloud services (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Job description

Accenture is seeking a senior software engineer to design, build, and operate end-to-end production systems across frontend, APIs, data, and AI components. You will own architecture through production, drive DevSecOps, and implement AI-enabled, agentic capabilities for enterprise clients.

You will collaborate with client tech leaders, guide multi-disciplinary teams, and apply secure-by-design practices. Travel may be required (25%–75%), with competitive compensation by location.