Lead AI-Native Engineer for Enterprise Agents

Accenture; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture seeks an AI Native Engineer with 5+ years building cloud-native solutions and agentic systems for enterprise environments. You will embed with clients to design use cases, prototype, and deploy agent-driven workflows that scale across complex infrastructures.

You will collaborate with stakeholders, build robust integrations across providers, and ensure security and observability while shaping the playbook for global AI-native engineering.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of cloud-native systems engineering (APIs, microservices, containerization, serverless).
• At least 1 year designing and deploying agentic solutions in production environments.
• Minimum 2 years with AI platforms (OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI) including multi-provider pipelines.
• Minimum 5 years programming in Python, Java, or equivalent; familiarity with evaluation tooling, logging, monitoring, and agent observability.
• Minimum 5 years deploying to production with CI/CD and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Helm).
• Minimum 5 years experience with client communication and leading technical workshops.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience (12 years).

Responsibilities

• Agent Architecture and Engineering: Design enterprise-ready AI agents with retrieval, orchestration, policy-based routing, tool invocation, evaluation harnesses, and observability.
• AI Platform Integration: Develop abstraction layers across AI providers to enable seamless multi-provider pipelines.
• Cloud-Native Engineering: Leverage Kubernetes, Docker, microservices, serverless, CI/CD, and observability.
• Domain-Specific Workflows: Tailor agentic applications across verticals and complex environments.
• Client Engagement: Conduct design workshops, POCs, and code-with sessions to shape data-driven agent workflows.
• Measure & Improve: Define metrics and evaluation plans for agent accuracy, latency, safety, and cost.
• Knowledge Sharing: Create reusable patterns and docs to influence assets and roadmaps.

Skills

Cloud-native

Agentic AI

Python/Java

CI/CD

Client engagement

System architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Helm

OpenAI

Job description

Accenture seeks an AI Native Engineer with 5+ years building cloud-native solutions and agentic systems for enterprise environments. You will embed with clients to design use cases, prototype, and deploy agent-driven workflows that scale across complex infrastructures.

You will collaborate with stakeholders, build robust integrations across providers, and ensure security and observability while shaping the playbook for global AI-native engineering.