Accenture

AI Engineer - FDE Software Engineering Sr. Manager

Accenture$132K — $302K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of software engineering and SDLC experience
  • 8+ years of programming in Python or Java with AI observability tools
  • 8+ years of CI/CD and infrastructure as code experience
  • 8+ years of client communication and technical workshop leadership
  • 3+ years of experience in cloud-native system engineering
  • 3+ years of building abstraction layers for AI platforms
  • 2+ years in designing and delivering Agentic AI solutions
  • 1+ year in production deployment of agentic workflows

Responsibilities

  • Design and engineer enterprise-ready AI agents with advanced features
  • Develop integration layers across various AI platforms for smooth functionality
  • Utilize cloud-native technologies for scalable systems development
  • Create and implement agentic applications tailored to specific industries
  • Engage clients through workshops and collaborative coding to enhance AI workflows
  • Establish metrics and evaluation plans to gauge agent performance and efficiency
  • Document best practices and create reusable resources for team use

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • 401(k) retirement plan options
  • Bonus opportunities based on performance
  • Paid holidays and time off for vacations
  • Long-term disability coverage
Full Job Description

You are:

An AI Native Engineer with a minimum of 3 years of experience building cloud-native solutions, and deep expertise in designing and deploying agentic systems, especially for enterprise environments. You are a critical thinker that thrives in ambiguity, delivering concrete results by designing, building, and running custom AI agents that augment workflows and scale across modern infrastructure.  You’ll help shape the playbook for how enterprises adopt and scale AI-native engineering globally.

The Work:

You’ll embed directly with clients — acting as both technologist and trusted advisor. You’ll partner with stakeholders to define use cases, rapidly prototype, and deploy agentic workflows that are robust, secure, and operational in complex enterprise domains.  Often, these will be completely net new platforms and systems that need to be stitched together in our clients' environments alongside our Ecosystem partners.

Responsibilities:

  • Agent Architecture and Engineering: Design and engineer enterprise-ready AI agents encompassing retrieval, orchestration, policy-based routing, tool invocation, evaluation harnesses, and lifecycle observability.

  • AI Platform Integration: Develop abstraction layers across AI providers (Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, etc. ) to enable seamless integration and enablement.

  • Cloud-Native Engineering: Leverage containerization (Kubernetes, Docker), microservices, serverless, event-driven architectures, CI/CD, and observability to deliver scalable AI-native systems.

  • Domain-Specific Workflows: Tailor and deploy agentic applications across verticals — e.g., finance, healthcare, retail — addressing domain-specific processes via intelligent automation.

  • Client Engagement: Conduct design workshops, POCs, and code-with sessions to shape data-driven agent workflows with stakeholders, fostering trust and adoption.

  • Measure & Improve: Define and use key metrics, test harnesses, and evaluation plans to measure agent accuracy, latency, safety, and cost effectiveness

  • Knowledge Sharing: Craft reusable patterns, documentation, and best practices to influence internal assets and client roadmaps.

Travel may be required for this role.  The amount of travel will vary from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirements.

Here’s What You Need:

  • Minimum 10 years' experience with end-to-end software engineering and SDLC expertise

  • Minimum 8 years' experience in the following:

    • Programming in Python, Java, or equivalent; familiarity with evaluation tooling, logging, monitoring, and agent observability.

    • Deploying to production — CI/CD, infrastructure as code (Terraform, Helm), monitoring, and debugging.

    • With client communication and collaboration, including being capable of leading technical workshops and delivering under ambiguity.

  • Minimum of 3 years’ experience in the following:

    • Engineering experience with cloud-native systems (APIs, microservices, containerization, serverless).

    • With AI platforms — OpenAI, Claude, plus open-source models — including building abstraction layers to manage multi-provider pipelines.

  • Minimum of 2 years of hands-on experience designing and delivering Agentic AI solutions

  • Minimum of 1.5 years' experience in the following:

    • With semantic models, ontologies, knowledge graphs, or enterprise knowledge

    • Using coding agents and AI-assisted software development

  • Minimum of 1 year expertise in designing and deploying agentic solutions (agents, orchestration, context engineering, RAG, workflows) in production environments

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience)


Bonus Points If:

  • You’ve served as an Agentic AI Engineer in an Enterprise environment

  • Additional AI certifications or agentic tool experience is a plus.

  • You’ve defined or worked with enterprise-grade architectures for compound AI systems, orchestration frameworks, or agent registry/stream-based architectures.

  • You understand the AI-native paradigm — blending cloud-native with generative model architectures — optimizing for performance, modularity, and efficiency.

  • You’ve delivered solutions across multiple industries (e.g., finance, healthcare) by tailoring agentic workflows to industry needs

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 11/30/2026.

Accenture offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off. See more information on our benefits here:

U.S. Employee Benefits | Accenture

Role Location                                        Annual Salary Range

California                                           $132,500 to $302,400

Colorado                                             $132,500 to $261,300

Connecticut                                        $132,500 to $261,300

District of Columbia                            $141,100 to $278,200

Illinois                                              $122,700 to $261,300

Maine                                                 $112,900 to $222,500

Maryland                                               $132,500 to $261,300

Massachusetts                                       $132,500 to $278,200

Minnesota                                           $132,500 to $261,300

New York                                                $122,700 to $302,400

New Jersey                                           $141,100 to $302,400

Ohio                                                 $122,700 to $241,900

Virginia                                              $122,700 to $278,200

Washington                                       $141,100 to $278,200

About Accenture

Accenture plc is a multinational professional services company that provides services in strategy, consulting, digital, technology, and operations. The company has more than 537,000 employees serving clients in more than 120 countries. Accenture operates across five business segments: Communications, Media & Technology; Financial Services; Health & Public Service; Products; and Resources. The company is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, and has offices worldwide.
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