Senior GenAI Developer

Accenture PLC; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 69,000 - 83,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Onsite 4 days/week in client locations

Job summary

Accenture Flex is hiring an AI/ML Engineer to design GenAI applications, optimize AI workflows, and lead cross-functional teams in Charlotte, NC or other client sites. The role emphasizes Python development, LLMs, RAG, vector search, and responsible AI governance within a hybrid onsite setup.

You will build scalable microservices on OpenShift, integrate with enterprise data, and push state-of-the-art AI solutions across multiple teams while ensuring production-ready quality.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of IT work experience.
• Minimum 7 years of software development experience.
• Minimum 3 years hands-on Python development, Generative AI and LLMs.
• Associate's Degree.

Responsibilities

• Develop GenAI applications leveraging FLARE platform capabilities.
• Build conversational AI solutions using Large Language Models.
• Develop AI-powered automation for document intelligence and business insights.
• Implement prompt engineering, orchestration and context management techniques.
• Improve AI applications for accuracy, performance and cost efficiency.

Skills

Python Development

Generative AI

Large Language Models

Agentic Design

Vector Databases

Prompt Engineering

AI Agents

Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Leadership

Education

Associate's Degree

Tools

FLARE platform

OpenShift

LangChain

LangGraph

APIs

Job description

Accenture Flex offers you the flexibility of local fixed-duration project-based work powered by Accenture, a leading global professional services company. Accenture is consistently recognized on FORTUNE's 100 Best Companies to Work For and Diversity Inc's Top 50 Companies For Diversity lists.

As an Accenture Flex employee, you will apply your skills and experience to help drive business transformation for leading organizations and communities. In addition to delivering innovative solutions for Accenture's clients, you will work with a highly skilled, diverse network of people across Accenture businesses who are using the latest emerging technologies to address today's biggest business challenges.

You will receive competitive rewards and access to benefits programs and world-class learning resources. Accenture Flex employees work in their local metro area onsite at the project, significantly reducing and/or eliminating the demands to travel.

Key Responsibilities:

As an AI / ML Engineer, you will be responsible for developing applications and systems that utilize artificial intelligence tools and cloud artificial intelligence services, ensuring proper cloud or on-premises application pipelines with production-ready quality. Your work will involve applying generative artificial intelligence models as part of the solution, which may include deep learning, neural networks, chatbots, and image processing. You are expected to be a subject matter expert, collaborate and manage the team to perform effectively, take responsibility for team decisions, engage with multiple teams, contribute to key decisions, and provide solutions to problems within your immediate team and across multiple teams. Expert proficiency in Agentic Design is required. Expert proficiency in Python Development, Retrieval-Augmented Generation is recommended. Expert proficiency in Large Language Model (LLM) Fine-Tuning, along with advanced proficiency in AI Agents, Prompt Engineering, and Vector Databases, is suggested.

Generative AI Solution Development

• Design and develop GenAI applications leveraging FLARE platform capabilities.
• Build conversational AI solutions using Large Language Models (LLMs).
• Develop AI-powered automation for document intelligence, commentary generation, validation workflows, and business insights.
• Implement solutions using prompt engineering, prompt orchestration, and context management techniques.
• Optimize AI applications for accuracy, performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.

RAG and Knowledge Base Engineering

• Develop Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions using enterprise knowledge repositories.
• Implement document ingestion, chunking, metadata extraction, embedding generation, and retrieval pipelines.
• Build and maintain Knowledge Bases supporting business-specific domains.
• Develop semantic search and contextual information retrieval capabilities.
• Improve response quality through tuning and evaluation of retrieval mechanisms.

Enterprise Data Integration

• Develop integrations with:
• Oracle databases
• Starburst
• S3 repositories
• Internal data services
• Enterprise APIs
• Enable AI-driven analysis of both structured and unstructured data sources.
• Build secure pipelines for ingestion and retrieval of business data.

Platform Engineering and Development

• Develop microservices and APIs supporting FLARE capabilities.
• Implement scalable containerized applications on OpenShift.
• Build automated deployment pipelines and CI/CD processes.
• Improve platform reliability, observability, logging, and monitoring.
• Collaborate with architects and platform engineers to enhance FLARE capabilities.

AI Evaluation and Governance

• Develop testing frameworks for AI solutions.
• Measure response quality using evaluation metrics and business validation criteria.
• Support responsible AI practices, model governance, security, and compliance requirements.
• Participate in AI risk reviews and production readiness assessments.

Must be willing to be onsite up to 4 days per week onsite with the client in Charlotte, NC, Plano, TX or Jersey City, NJ. 5 days away per quarter is also required by the client.

asic Qualifications:

• Minimum 10 years of IT Work experience
• Minimum 7years of software development experience.
• Minimum 3years of hands on experience with Python Development, Generative AI and Large Language Models.
• Associate's Degree

Preferred Qualifications:

• Good Communication and Leadership skillset
• Experience in RAG architectures, Prompt engineering, Embeddings and vector search, Agentic AI frameworks, LangChain or LangGraph, Enterprise AI platforms
• Banking Finance domain knowledge and experience will be considered a strong advantage

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired as set forth below.
We anticipate this job posting will be posted until 12/13/2026.
Accenture Flex offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, and paid time off. See more information on our benefits here:

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