Lead AI-Native Engineering Manager

Accenture PLC; Bentonville (AR); On-site; USD 120,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401(k) plan

Paid holidays

Paid time off

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 in Bentonville. You will own architecture, shape technical direction, and drive delivery with cross-functional teams.

You will partner with client technologists, implement CI/CD, security controls, and AI-enabled solutions, and mentor engineers while delivering measurable outcomes for enterprise-scale AI-native platforms.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production systems.
• Minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience spanning multiple layers of the stack, including front end or API through services, integration, persistence, and asynchronous processing.
• Minimum of 5 years of programming experience in at least one major language such as Java, Python, Go, TypeScript/JavaScript, or C#.
• Minimum of 5 years of hands-on production experience with a major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP), including containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Helm, or equivalent).
• Minimum of 5 years of experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines through to production, including automated testing and integrated security controls.
• Minimum of 1 years of hands-on experience designing, building, and deploying AI-enabled or agentic systems in production or near-production environments, including model integration, tool use, retrieval, context engineering, orchestration, and evaluation.
• Minimum of 1 years of experience applying AI-native engineering tools and workflows to day-to-day software development, including code generation, automated testing, debugging, modernization, and documentation.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience leading engineering teams or significant technical workstreams, including leading client-facing technical discussions, workshops, or delivery sessions under ambiguity.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent OR equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering teams spanning software, cloud, platform, security, data, and AI engineering; set engineering standards and develop the engineers around you.
• Facilitate architecture and engineering sessions with senior client technologists, and communicate trade-offs, risks, and recommendations clearly to both technical and executive audiences.
• Turn delivery into reusable patterns, tooling, automation, and standards that influence internal assets and client roadmaps.
• Contribute to internal communities of practice around AI-native and agentic engineering.

Skills

Software engineering

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Containers & Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Security & DevSecOps

AI-enabled / agentic systems

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Helm

OpenAI SDK

LangGraph

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 in Bentonville. You will own architecture, shape technical direction, and drive delivery with cross-functional teams.

You will partner with client technologists, implement CI/CD, security controls, and AI-enabled solutions, and mentor engineers while delivering measurable outcomes for enterprise-scale AI-native platforms.