AI SDLC Transformation Lead

Accenture; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 101,000 - 245,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Long-term disability coverage

401(k) plan

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Job summary

Accenture seeks an AI SDLC Transformation Manager to guide enterprise clients in redesigning software delivery for AI-native workflows. You will apply flow metric analysis to surface waste and translate insights into actionable roadmaps for large organizations.

Applicants should have hands-on SDLC experience, plus at least 3 years in consulting and 2 years with AI/LLM systems. This role may require travel and operates within Accenture’s expansive benefits framework.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years working across the full SDLC, requirements through release.
• Minimum of 3 years hands-on experience designing or building multi-agent or LLM-integrated systems.
• Minimum of 3 years in a consulting or advisory capacity working with engineering organizations, enterprise scale.
• Minimum of 3 years applying flow metrics or value stream mapping as diagnostic tools.
• Minimum of 2 years working directly with AI/ML systems, LLMs, or agentic architectures.

Responsibilities

• Value stream mapping and flow metric analysis to identify waste in existing SDLC practices.
• Design AI-native to-be processes that restructure and accelerate how software is defined, designed, and governed.
• Change management for engineering teams transitioning to AI-augmented workflows.
• Strategy and design of agentic systems targeting upstream SDLC phases: requirements generation, user story synthesis, design review, and architecture validation.
• Know how and where to use creator and reviewer agent patterns and the token impact of doing so.
• Model SDLC as a system, identifying feedback loops, bottlenecks, and second-order effects of process changes.

Skills

SDLC delivery

Flow metrics

Agentic systems

Consulting experience

AI tooling fluency

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

GitHub Copilot

Cursor

Amazon Q Developer

Cody

Job description

Accenture seeks an AI SDLC Transformation Manager to guide enterprise clients in redesigning software delivery for AI-native workflows. You will apply flow metric analysis to surface waste and translate insights into actionable roadmaps for large organizations.

Applicants should have hands-on SDLC experience, plus at least 3 years in consulting and 2 years with AI/LLM systems. This role may require travel and operates within Accenture’s expansive benefits framework.