Lead AI-Native Software Engineer

Accenture PLC; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 87,000 - 291,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a senior software engineer to design, build, and operate production systems spanning frontend, APIs, backend services, data, cloud infrastructure, DevSecOps, security, observability, and AI. You will own the technical solution from architecture to production, balancing performance, reliability, and security while collaborating with client teams.

You’ll work directly with client technology leaders, translating ambiguous requirements into concrete architectures, incremental

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 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. (If Associate's Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience)

Responsibilities

• Design and build production systems across front end, APIs, backend services, integration, data, infrastructure, and AI components, making architectural decisions across all of these concerns together.
• Diagnose production issues wherever they live: application code, networks, infrastructure, identity, data, or AI workloads.
• Design and deploy workloads using containers, Kubernetes, serverless, managed cloud services, and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Helm, or equivalent), building for elasticity, resilience, and recoverability.
• Use the native capabilities of AWS, Azure, or GCP, including cloud networking, compute, storage, identity, secrets, service communication, and workload isolation.
• Build the automated path from commit to production: CI/CD, automated testing, security scanning, artifact management, infrastructure deployment, policy enforcement, and release controls.
• Apply secure-by-design practices (identity, least privilege, secrets, encryption, dependency and supply-chain security), instrument logs, metrics, traces, and SLOs, and lead incident response and root-cause analysis.
• Design and implement AI capabilities using frontier and enterprise models (OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Google, AWS, and others), integrated into live enterprise systems and production workflows.
• Build agentic systems with tools, memory, context, planning, human intervention, and policy-controlled execution, together with the evaluation frameworks, AI observability, and production safeguards that keep probabilistic components trustworthy inside deterministic enterprise systems.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

TypeScript/JavaScript

C#

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Helm

Job description

Accenture is seeking a senior software engineer to design, build, and operate production systems spanning frontend, APIs, backend services, data, cloud infrastructure, DevSecOps, security, observability, and AI. You will own the technical solution from architecture to production, balancing performance, reliability, and security while collaborating with client teams.

You’ll work directly with client technology leaders, translating ambiguous requirements into concrete architectures, incremental